Yesterday’s blog had some unintended consequences that I’m going to post about for all my supportive friends and family. My emphasis in writing was to lift up the bit of self-discovery I made about myself. My lovely followers read that I had been treated unkindly by someone, and they were ready to protect me and tell me all the reasons that a person with a complaint was wrong. Thank you, lovely friends, family, and followers. I love you too.

Complaints and criticisms are part of the job when one serves in the helping professions. For many years in my work, I took those criticisms way too personally and to heart, believing what someone might say to me as the truth about me or my work. Age, or wisdom, is slowly teaching me that complaints are rarely about me or my performance and say much more about the heart and conditions of the soul of the one making the complaint. Sometimes people have a real gripe that needs attention or a complaint that needs consideration. My age is finally helpful for me to separate out these issues.

So for the record, all is well in my world. God is good, and I am still learning to write this blogging thing in a way that points to what I am trying to say. This is my Lenten Discipline this year. Writing transparently to share thoughts on faith, life, and finding joy in uncertain seasons. Thanks for walking with me today.

“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Goff