Brendon and I are alike in that we have a love/hate relationship with routine. We both do better in routine, but we get bored with it easily and have to change it up. When we change it up, it throws our little world into chaos for a while until we find the routine again. We get more done with routine. We, ironically, find more joy and fulfillment in routine because we know what to expect and therefore, we choose to have better attitudes.
I look forward to the routine of 2009 mainly because God is hard at work in the deep recesses of the Skor family. He is breaking our hearts for people around us and stretching the boundaries of our comfortable faith again.
He has placed several families in our lives who, quite honestly, are going to mess with the routine. People who, evidently, see something in our little family that intrigues them.
Kiley is greeted with hugs by moms at the school whose lives are so perpendicular to ours that there is no parallel perspective at all. We are finding ourselves in homes eating unfamiliar foods (which, if you know me, is a real stretch for this boy) having conversations about life, parenting, and more that stretch our thinking processes to the max. More than once, we'll have to have another conversation on the way home in the van with the boys saying something like, "I know that other families use those words, but our family is going to choose not to use those words because God wants us to live differently. But we love our friends don't we?"
The irony is that the very thing that we felt we have been "called" here to do (to help pastor a church) is often the greatest barrier to doing what God seems to have in store for us... reaching people He loves.
We look forward to the routine of 2009 and all the messiness it brings. :-)
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