What a busy weekend! We enjoyed having the pastoral staff and families over, then celebrated our granddaughter's sixteenth birthday. (Can she really be sixteen already?)

My husband and I are trying to get a better balance in our lives and work on making time for people. We walk around feeling consumed and depleted all week; that needs to get turned around. Life is too short to not put people ahead of work and schedules.

It's not an easy task, as something will always be urgent--so, we will carefully sift through the "urgent" to find the "important" and work at keeping people our main focus.