Today, I had the opportunity to be around such awesome people, y’all!! I am thinking about and feeling so grateful for the people in our lives. The people who, by the mercy of God, help us exist in the world. God uses so many wonderful people to uphold us and give us strength. I am very thankful for family and friends, colleagues and collaborators. In short, our community. I am thinking of so many great people right now. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! Thank you for praying for us! I thank God for you and pray that God blesses you and keeps you.

I am also thinking of the creative people who bring us the movies we watch for inspiration and the programs we watch to educate us. It must be so crazy to put a movie out in the world and have it affect so many people! We watch a lot of movies, and I am so thankful for them. There’s something both calming and invigorating about a good movie. Therapeutic for us!

Today, my youngest hurt his finger playing basketball, so we iced it and then put arnica gel on it. We’ll be watching it and checking how it is tomorrow. We are grateful especially for the folks who care about him. We had his favorite snack (seaweed), made his favorite pasta, and had some ice cream. He wanted to watch Black Panther. It is such a great movie. So we watched about half of that, and then he decided to sleep in my bed because his finger hurts so much! I pray it is not broken. May he feel better tomorrow. I pray for healing for him. I pray God watches over our children and gives us strength to parent them well, with wisdom, and grace!!