Teaching Taylor

I found this post in my drafts. It’s currently not even close to being ice fishing time. It’s sunny and my view looks a little different, but as I reread this message, I figured, I better share it anyway. Enjoy a message from the drafts that I forgot to share. I hope it brings you joy.

I’m sure you all know that I love to ice fish. If you didn’t, now you do.

When Devon and I first met, it was winter and he quickly introduced me to ice fishing. I say introduced me because even though I grew up near a huge lake and fished in the summer, I only had been out ice fishing a handful of times before Devon.

It quickly became one of our favorite thing to do together. We’d go out on early ice in the portable and once there was enough ice we’d bring out the big fish house to fish in comfort.

Recently, Devon’s cousin came over to visit and to go fishing with Devon. A normal thing for them to do together. I was feeling a little under the weather (#teacherlife), so I decided to take a nap. When I woke up from my nap and looked out my window I saw this.

You might be thinking “Okay, cool, what’s the point?” The point is, HOLY BUCKETS! That’s a portable fish house on a LAKE that Devon and I live on.

Now this isn’t no Mille Lacs lake, not even a Toad Lake, but what it is, is our very own place of peace and relaxation. It’s our own little place to drill a hole in the ice and hope for the best. It’s our own little place to just breathe.

I always worry about writing things like this because I hate to sound like I am bragging, because I’m not. I always worry that my messaging will be misconstrued.

I’m writing this because it’s not just a portable fish house out there that made me feel all sorts of feels. It’s the fact that all our hard word thus far in life has paid off and some days it just hits you. It hits you and you think “Wow, God you are so, so good.”

That’s what happened that day. It has happened before where I just sit in awe in the place that God has trusted us with. Each time it does, I just almost have to pinch myself.

It’s not about the portable fish house, although the times in the portable are quite fantastic. It’s about the fact that sometimes we all just need those life checks. The moments that catch us off guard. The moments were we can be like “Wow”

The moments in life that regardless the chaos, we can stop and relish in the good around us and appreciate the good things around us.

I truly believe that regardless what we have been through, we all can have these moments. We all can find the little glimmer of goodness of our life.

If you’re struggling to find that glimmer of goodness, take a moment to just sit in silence and look around you. You’ll find it. I promise. It just might take a moment.