Rick's Lament
I should have seen this coming. I tried to prepare myself even. But today I’m just so discouraged. Perhaps its because I had such a wonderful weekend. I mean it was a spectacular weekend with my girls coming on the heels of feeling hopeful and optimistic that my life may have finally turned around. I remember an old sermon from TD Jakes that I heard exhorting, “Don’t let your highs get too high or your lows get too low.” I leaned into my highs because it just felt so good being a kind of family this weekend. Now I’m facing the consequence of the emotional bounce back the opposite way. Maybe I should work on not letting my lows get too low again. Nothing consequential happened to me today either way. Maybe its simply because I miss my girls. Their absence reminds me that I’m alone without a full time family. If you do have a family, cherish them. I thought I was doing that but apparently I was doing it t...