After being gone for three and a half weeks, it feels good to be home and back in my own bed. There is nothing quite like sleeping in one’s own bed!  I love how travel makes me appreciate my own space all the more.  Our family arrived home after a seventeen hour drive–ugh.  The last  four hours were the worst as it felt like we would never make it.  We did, and of course, Texas welcomed us with a blast of heat.   

There’s a lot to unpack about my time away, and I hope to do so over the next few posts.  Tomorrow marks the unofficial start of a new school year for me.  Even though this summer has felt slower and longer than previous summers, it still feels surreal that school will be starting in a couple of weeks.  For a variety of reasons, my thoughts have been focused on God as Lord of my life.  Am I allowing God to be Lord over all aspects of my life?  Do I trust him to be Lord of my future? my time?  my family? my work?  I find it easy to toss around the phrase, “Lord of all,” and a very different thing to really believe it and practice it in my own life.  But that’s my prayer for this year in particular.  I want to experience God as Lord of my life.