“We’re not victims of our circumstances, we’re riders on the storm.” Sounds like the lyrics to a great song, Floyd. 🙂 Or words from a writer’s mouth. I love the imagery. Thanks, friend.

Can we rename our “impatience” too while we’re at it? ha. I prefer “efficient”. 🙂 Yes, I would love to meet you in person one day. If not on this side of life, definitely on the other!

We get to choose how respond. It’s always a choice. We’re not victims of our circumstances, we’re riders on the storm… and it’s all in God’s hands.

I so enjoy pondering this subject. Thanks, Lisa.

I listen to podcast when I walk and laughed I listen at 1.5 speed. we both are impatient. LOL. Great idea – lets come up with our own word. I think about it. Sure glad we have connected and would be so much fun to meet in person some day.

No surprise to me either that we both love TED Radio Hour. 🙂 I love when a new episode pops up on my list of podcasts. I’m afraid my podcast list is growing too quickly like my book list though; so many podcasts, so little time to listen to them all. As it is, I often set the speed to 2x if it’s a slow speaker so that I can hear it all in half the time. ha.

I’m not crazy about “mindset” either, even though I use it a lot. I always think of Joyce Meyer when I hear “stinking-thinking.” That’s definitely something that I have quite frequently. I read somewhere recently that “mindfulness” has become such a popular word the past couple of years that it’s losing its meaning. Maybe we need to come up with something altogether different.

That one little pronoun makes all the difference: “whatever crops up HE will be able to handle.” You speak truth, my friend! We don’t have to handle anything all by ourselves. So grateful that we have a God who not actually *can* take care of us, but who delights in it and asks us to turn it over to him.

Now to live it out daily. Some days it seems easier than others, some days harder. 🙂

Our themes are definitely in sync, Christine. 🙂 It’s a theme I need to keep on repeat. I never tire of hearing that God is greater than our circumstances.

Good point, Betty…realizing that NOTHING catching God by surprise is a faith-building attitude. One beautiful thing about getting older is we do have more experiences to look back at the faithfulness of God to us through the years. Even when we failed him, he never failed us. And if he didn’t then, he won’t in the future either. Thanks for dropping in and sharing.

Seeking his face…yes, that’s it, Kelly. It’s all about turning over and over again to him, trusting him with the circumstances and with us in the circumstances. Thanks for sharing here.