I created a vision board for 2020 that turned into a vision album. I picked it up the other day from the shelf in my office. I discovered a couple of pages that stood out from the rest. I had finished it in December, and hadn’t had a chance to revisit it. Everything had been so strange I had almost forgotten it.

The first page to catch my eye had a front door, and the words ”stay” and ”home”!

The other page had the words,” life leave.”

I want a new front door, that’s why I chose the door. The other words ”stay” and ”home” we’re because I wanted to redo somethings in our home. I wanted to make a place we all wanted to stay.

The ”life leave” came from the idea I would take some time off from work this year to enjoy life. I wanted time to be with my family. I wanted time to enjoy home with them.

Especially since this year, Ben is graduating high school, and Korey graduated college. I thought it would be nice to have family time.

The truth is God spoke to me through this. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was scared, and I was stressed. I questioned everything and fought the thought it could last past a week or two at the most.

What was and is still scary and uncertain is also the way God found to bless me. He found the wishes on my vision board.

My boys and I have worked at home across the hall from each other nearly every day for eight weeks now. We eat lunch together and go back to work. We laugh a lot, encourage, and support each other.

The evenings and weekends have been spent eating family suppers, listening to vinyl records, taking walks as a family, and Sunday drives that sometimes include ice cream.

God said to me through this, I often get what I want, but I’m too busy worrying to realize it.

The thought occurred to me if someone had offered me the opportunity ten years ago when they were only 9 and 12 to purchase this time with my boys now when they are 19 and 22, it would have been priceless.

I am blessed. My advice is this, be careful what you wish for and make sure you stop to appreciate it when you find it. Stay safe, be thankful, be kind, and pray for others.