My daughter Ella and I started coming to CMC just a few weeks before in-person services stopped so many of you do not know us. Reading the Daily Connector emails has not just been feeding my soul but also a beautiful way to get to know this community.  I often describe how I’m doing as riding the waves. It remains true today, though the seas are choppier these days. The image is a reminder for me that no wave (or feeling or period of time) lasts forever, a reminder to use the tools I have been practicing to stay calm and present through whatever is happening and respond to the moment rather than react or freak out. There are, without question, times when the waves crash down and I am overcome with panic and thrash about, but eventually I am able to get up to the surface. Of course,

Happy Easter Monday! Refrain: “Do not let your heart be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me.” John 14:1     What a most unusual Lent. Yesterday Christians in the western world celebrated Jesus resurrection. This year, however, the Lenten season must continue. The world is groaning, bewildered, and suffering. While the earth continues to whirl around the sun, it’s as if God hit a pause button for humanity on the earth’s computer. To survive, humanity needs to cease from familiar activities and busyness. People are ordered to stay at home and flatten the curve. Each individual holds the gift to help heal the other. These are humbling, vulnerable, and empowering times. “Do not let your heart be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me.” Stay at home may feel like a death sentence to the extrovert who is socially driven. With the Meyers Brigg assessment

First, an update on my life. Initially, as an essential worker, I continued to go into the office (OhioHealth’s Kobacker House). While I found it hard to leave home each morning, once I was out the door, I found it easy and empowering to turn my thoughts to what needed to be done. Being a part of a system preparing for and addressing COVID19 needs provided fulfilment to my day. There was chaotic but passionate energy all around me. Eventually I was permitted to shift much of my work to home and now am doing 4/5 days there. As an introvert, I love this. Also I’m most effective with few, if any, interruptions when working on larger projects. Fortuitously, at the end of February, Anna moved home to enable her to save and purchase a home of her own. This means that we have each other during this time of

I’ve been a WAH for over 30 years, so working from home is normal.  However, this doesn’t “feel” normal.  These are just some various scattered thoughts that might resonate with some of you. My son who is currently living with me and I both feel the reality of being in a place of privilege.  Yes, we are frightened sometimes…what if he gets it and infects me (the bigger worry because of my age).  But we are in a safe home, we are both still working, we can get groceries and yes, even toilet paper was eventually found.  There is worry about the future—I need to make a housing change, but everything feels delayed and even more scary in this climate. But I have resources I can use if needed, so even in this uncertain situation I have options.  I find myself distancing not just physically but emotionally from some things.