Covid turned our world upside-down. Do you long for a return to \u201cnormal\u201d?\u00a0 Are you hoping this summer will look a lot different (and better!) than the last one?\u00a0 Life this year is bound to look different, so the question should be, \u201cWill it be better?\u201d<\/p>\n
The winter of 2020-2021 was an opportunity to pause and evaluate our lives. The parents I have talked to are falling into two different camps regarding their approach to family life this year. One group cannot wait to resume all their former activities and plans. They hope to be involved in as many of those activities as possible. The rhythm and social engagement fed their lives. The other group is not so sure. In fact, they are looking at the looming list of sporting events, birthday parties, and memberships as an untamed monster headed their way. They were glad to get off the \u2018hamster wheel\u2019 and have a chance to regroup. How to evaluate all of this? Here are five suggestions:<\/p>\n
Do not miss the beauty of unhurried time together. <\/p>\n
Relationships take time. Even those with your kids. Especially those with your kids. Dinners together, walks, and decreased extracurricular activities are a blessing. Before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Covid turned our world upside-down. Do you long for a return to \u201cnormal\u201d?\u00a0 Are you hoping this summer will look a lot different (and better!) than the last one?\u00a0 Life this year is bound to look different, so the question should be, \u201cWill it be better?\u201d The winter of 2020-2021 was an opportunity to pause… read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[275],"tags":[2002,1116,38],"class_list":["post-34100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-biblical-counseling-ministry-fbcm","tag-covid","tag-marriage-and-family","tag-parenting","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/priscilla-du-preez-5s07Z1h2EE8-unsplash-665x278-1-1.jpg?fit=665%2C278&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34105,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34100\/revisions\/34105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}