As best I can tell, it was the fall of 2015 when I first began ending love notes and blog posts with, “We’re in this together…” It was a story entitled, “Remembering what’s good (in me),” and it was filled with 15 reminders of good and purposeful things. Here are five of them.

I’m finding every decade to be better than the one before. Not easier, mind you, but better. Life gets sweeter and richer and more colorful with every passing day. It truly is a gift to be cherished and not despised.

I love my family—Brad, Ian, Gina, my sweet grandkids, every relative by marriage, every extended family member, every person grafted in because God is kind to fill in all the gaps. He is so very kind.

I love telling story, even when there are seasons when it feels like the words are trapped somewhere between my heart and…