Behind the Stack: A Summer Day In The Life

A full life - not just with stuff, but with purpose.

Summer doesn’t officially start until later in June, but ours really kicked off this Monday. Some of my kids have been out of school for a few weeks, but this was the first day we were doing it all: everyone out of school, camps underway, summer work and seminary hours in full swing, and I started writing my next book.

I’ve stepped into my summer rhythm: Full-time work in part-time hours, two seminary classes, writing my thirteenth book, and big health goals I’m inching toward. It’s a lot. If you’d told me ten years ago that this would be my life — teenagers running around town, writing books while managing pickup schedules, lifting heavy weights in the gym while lifting heavy truths in theology — I probably would have said, “Who? What? How? No way.”

But here we are. And it’s working. And I like it.

So without further ado, here’s what a day in the life looks like right now:

6:00am

My little sunlight and bird sounds alarm goes off, and I hit snooze. My mind has learned not to snooze on unimportant days. Apparently, this was a day my brain felt safe to rest.