Body
With the spring season comes spring cleaning. On one occasion, after spending the now warmer evening hours out doing just that, I came in with mud on my shoes and one thing on my mind. My eyes were set on heading out to the door to move on to the next thing on our to-do list. My wife stopped me in my tracks and pointed out the trail of dirt starting from the tip of my nose all the way to my brow. She laughed at me as if this wasn’t the first time. Guilty. I like to keep moving, even if that means being oblivious to these sorts of things, no matter how embarrassing and consequential they are. Most of us live very fast lives. We hardly have time to think about what happened in the last hour, let alone what happened last week or last year. As true as this is, we must realize we need time to not only process but also move past what we just experienced. In the last few weeks, I’ve had multiple conversations where people brought up habits and ways of thinking birthed in their adolescence and childhood. Whether it was a comment from their parents, living with a big family, or having a traumatic experience like a bad car accident, these sorts of things shape us in very deep ways.
