There are seasons in life where we float on clouds of comfort and others on which we cling to the edge of an abyss. Somehow, between 2020 and the start of October, 2024, I believe life has moved with increasing haste from the former to the latter.

It feels as though we are at that moment in time where the consequences are life-altering. The status quo has shifted and what once felt familiar and moved almost robotically is now in constant upheaval.

Though not accidental, but surely deliberate, this period for my nation is one of significant consequence. Everything feels heightened and pushed to extremes, edgy and ready to explode.

I miss the simplicity and ease of the old ways and the prior days, though in coming to this time in history requires a sobering acknowledgment that things leading us to this period in time were not as they seemed!