Wednesday mornings.

Wednesday mornings are trending to be tough ones for team Osborne. Mid-week, kids are wearing down, big night @ church, looking forward to the weekend events. Today proved to be no exception. Kristyn is still recovering from a "lack of sleep-over", and in my desire to get a few things done this morning, I asked her to help out. She started, then played instead of completing the short task I'd asked. After waking up and vowing not to lose my cool this morning (I knew Wed. was coming!), I totally blew it. Ugh.

Here is the thing...have you sensed anxiousness in people of late? It might have been me, but it seemed like everyone was on edge. It has been that way off and on for some time. It is amazing that even though we are people of hope, we still fall prey to the sense of unease and worry that dominates our world so often. Something I’ve noticed with this sense of unease – it trickles down to our kids. As oblivious as our kids might seem, even when they appear to be not paying attention, I think our young ones sense unease in mom and dad and it shows up in how they behave. Our kids at home get grumpy, quick to talk back, and slow to act when we ask something of them. Our kids at church will act up – louder than normal, squirmy and squirrely, hard to manage at times. Mostly because they don’t know how to handle the tension they are feeling. And lots of times, the longer it goes undiffused, the more likely they become to do something rash or drastic.

Here’s the thing – we have the chance to model calm, peace, and trust in the midst of uneasy times. As people of Jesus, we’ve been given assurance that come what may, our future is secure. It may not be easy, it most likely will include some discomfort, and we are not promised to know what tomorrow holds. But if we take to heart what the scriptures say about Him, we know that He is working all things out for the good of those who love Him. As the season changes, leadership changes, lives are experiencing change, remember that as uneasy as we are as adults, our kids are as well. Let’s be the ones who hold hope out to them, the ones who model trust in the storm, and point them in the direction of peace that passes our understanding.

Time to hit reset on the day and start again.