Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

New Year

  • As a new year begins, we are drawn to being better than we are. Which is good. But above that is God’s love.

  • The reason we have trouble getting New Year Resolutions to stick is that we treat them like we’re the only ones.

  • Changed

    In times of conflict or great disruption, we are always asking ourselves how will we be changed. But the process changes us.

  • My attempt to be productive during the pandemic took an interesting turn. I moved away from measuring and toward showing up.

  • Getting the challenge of 2020 right is essential to understanding what is at stake next year. And the year after.

  • The real challenge of New Year’s is not just that we write the wrong year on documents. It’s our living the wrong life again. I finally started my Bullet Journal for 2019. It isn’t pretty and I’m not showing off all my beautiful pages. But the fact that we are nearly a week into 2019…