...but so often it becomes all too difficult to conjure up an accurate response:  “How are you?”  There’s the trite I-don’t-really-want-to answer-answer: “fine” or “good.”  There’s the wanting to portray positivity answer: “We are truly doing great…so many great things in life!”  There’s the I’ve-had-a-toilet-bowl-day-answer: “not so hot” or “I gotta say, I’m tired.”  But somewhere there is the hey, if-someone-really-cares-to-honestly-ask, I-don’t-even-know-how-to-begin-to-honestly-answer answer.  We all have had these split second responses in attempts to evaluate just HOW we are truly doing.

We took a bit of a break this weekend to do just that together.  Well, kind of.  It may seem cheesy, but we just needed to stop to evaluate just how we are doing….in life—at camp, in our marriage, on our journey with God, with others, in our fiances, our goals, dreams, desires, evaluating past, present, and future.  We prayerfully desire to be intentional with our days and to care for one another through each day.  Ah, it was as sweet as dark chocolate gram-crackers with a very small kick of that oh so slight bitterness that makes you want to take another bite.  (If you’ve ever had one, you’d know what I mean…)

It is good to ask how are we?!?  Ah, what a work in progress we each are…....Hmmmmm…......
What areas in life we need to simplify and how?
What ways will will try (by God’s grace) to make different from last year?
What is the single most important thing we could do to improve the quality of our marriage in this season?
What do we need to restructure financially?
How can we care for and be good stewards of what has been entrusted to us—-people, home, responsibilities, God’s word? 

So, how are we?  We’re doing okay…....