“Normal is really just a setting on your dryer”. I find those words to be very true. But I want normal nonetheless. I want normal, but it seems elusive. Maybe normal is traditional?
The times as of late have established a “new normal”. I don’t want this “new normal. I want the normal of what was. I don’t have to change, but I hear people saying it must change and so I ask “Why?”. Why don’t you want it to be normal? Who doesn’t want it back to normal?
Somehow this push for accepting the “new normal” seems abnormal. Something is going on.
Michele Bruxvoort is sure to draw you in with her delightful sense of humor and love for living life. She enjoys reading, repurposing, as well as remodeling the family home with her husband. Drawing from her life experience as wife, mom, and follower of Jesus, Michele brings you a very honest and real perspective on life. When you don’t find her writing, you can find her mowing lawns, stocking shelves, taking care of her grandbaby and tackling her latest life adventure.
Wisconsin native and empty-nester, she now makes her home with her husband of 27 years in the South West Prairie plains of Minnesota.
Perhaps because “new normals” doesn’t mean what you had was bad, it just means there’s even more good to live out. Sometimes we get easily stuck in our “normals” yet God is always bringing new rhythms into our lives, new wine skins.
Really enjoyed the rawness of your post!
Visiting from FMF
That’s an old Erma Bombeck quote, isn’t it? Or?
“We will tell you what to do
in this darkest hour!”
Don’t think so, dude, ’cause I see through
your lust for greater power.
You’ll let us go to Walmart,
but if we go to church,
arrest us in the parking-lot,
without a warrant-search.
It’s gone unconstitutional,
it’s gone to far for me
to bow to those delusional
to think that they can be
our caring gentle guarding giants
when they’re really petty tyrants.
It’s a conundrum…
I am thinking so…had no time to look it up, but I’m pretty sure it is!
Michele
Andrew,
I’m with you. The whole Wal-Mart but not church…uffda… Church is back in session for me this Sunday.
Michele
Penny, I know… uff.
Michele
Raquel, Thank you for your compliment. New rhythms are good and new normals okay as well, but I’m not so sure of the authorities’ intentions.
Michele
Found out it is Patsy Clairmont.
Michele