Define Normal

We get asked a lot if our lives have returned to normal. What is normal? Have you ever really thought about it? Can anyone ever say that their life is normal? While I would answer that we have returned to some kind of routine. We will never have the same lives that we had on January 4, 2009. We will have always had this experience. We are not the same. I for one find myself improved. I don't see the world the same way. Some burden that I can't even define has been lifted from my shoulders. Even some of the tension I used to hold in my shoulders is gone. I feel... well free. I never expected to feel this way. I guess that while I was turning over my worry and fear for Kristen to God, I was handing over a lot of other baggage. Cool.

Really what has happened is that I have moved forward in my relationship with Christ. I have this mental image of a Christian starting as a tiny baby. I'm held in my mother's arms as the minister sprinkles holy water on me to baptize me. Then I jump to a toddler. I'm learning to walk. I've started on real food. Then I am a kindergartner, going off school. From here my mind jumps ahead to an old woman bent over and wrinkled but still with a light in her eyes. I jump ahead because in my walk with Christ I am probably still a kindergartner. Maybe I'm ready for a growth spurt.