10 reflections on 2024
Death, relationships, ADHD, and Blue Bell ice cream, to name a few.
This year, I’m not setting a lot of goals or intentions for 2025. Instead, I found it helpful to look back on what has already happened. I hope I will keep these things in mind in the new year.
The older I get, the more people I know will die, and death is sad.
This year, three people passed away who I knew personally. One was my age. The other two were old enough to be my parents (one was, in fact, my husband’s father). When our friend Travis passed away on May 1 after complications with his health, I felt extremely disoriented. People our age aren’t supposed to die from health issues. But I am nearing 40, and I realized that the people I know who are my age are likely only going to get less healthy, because we are all a little bit closer to death each day. The other two men who died—my father-in-law and a founding member of our church—lived relatively long lives, but they were still deaths. For those who knew them, it meant the end of a relationship. I was reminded again that this is …
