Little moments, here and there. That’s what we’re focused on these days. It’s the start of our busiest season ever, with more work and travel than we’d ever dreamed, imagined, predicted, or even prayed for. We’re in Tennessee right now, next week we’ll be in Florida and before the month is through, we’ll have also hit Virginia and Texas, and in the midst of all that, we’ll be shooting weddings every weekend, speaking and teaching, and getting to connect with friends and family all over the country. We used to tell people that we’re thankful for this season of life, until a pastor told us to be thankful for this assignment in life. That changed our perspective a little bit, because seasons can, sometimes, feel long and drawn out, like we’re floating or passing through something with no end in sight. Seasons, we think, can sometimes turn into forever, if we’re not careful, like a long winter that never ends. So, for now, we like the word assignment better. Assignment fits. Because it implies that God’s in control. He knows the task we’re supposed to complete. And, when we do, He’ll move us on to something else, and we can look back knowing that we did the best we could with the time we had to finish the work we needed to do. No regrets at that point. Just looking forward.

So, we’re pressing on full steam ahead in this assignment of our life. We don’t know when it will end. We’re not sure how it will morph. We’re just taking it one day at a time. Sometimes one breath at a time. And finding little moments, here and there, to rest along the way. Whether it’s a slow morning and breakfast with friends (like we did this morning), leaving those laptops closed just a little bit longer than normal to connect with each other, or whatever little moment, here or there, we find today or the next day to have a brief respite from the demands of the world, we’re taking advantage of them. Because, what we’re finding is that we’re better friends and business owners when we keep all of our tanks full, and not just one.

Wherever you are right now and whatever you’re doing, whether you’re reading this on Friday morning or afternoon, or days, weeks, months, or years after we’ve written this, we hope that you’re working hard, fighting, and scraping as if everything depends on you, praying as if everything depends on God, and, in the midst of it all, finding little moments, here and there, to refuel, recharge, reload, and reengage the world in a more thoughtful, purposeful, focused, and intentional way than ever before. Because that, friends, is how we all can collectively change the world.