A day in the life

“What do your days look like?”

“What does a normal week look like for you guys?”

These are questions we get asked a lot (strangely enough), and we don’t mind, since it is a very different life we live here then our 7-3pm job we had in the states. And a lot of times we don’t even know how to answer that question…what is a normal week for us? What does a normal day consist of? What is normal? Haha!

It is sometimes hard to answer those questions when we sometimes don’t even know the answers, and I think that is okay.

It has been something I have been pondering for a while and coming to terms with myself (which has been a journey in and of itself since I am Mrs. Routine and LOVE daily rhythms and schedules and to-do lists and knowing ahead of time and planning and ALL that sometimes gets thrown out the window…what a journey it’s been, creating rhythms where there is so much static you have to be intentional and “listen” carefully, or when there is just silence and the rhythms don’t come easily, sometimes just in your head)

So here is our attempt at sort of answering a sometimes-ambiguous question. Here is our attempt at grasping at a “normal” that maybe is not our normal anymore. Do you get what I am trying to say? Maybe?

Now I need to start by saying we are always caught between two, for sure, etched in stone rhythms/routines:

When a Merge team is here vs. when a Merge team is not here

 

1. When a Merge team is here: 

  • Monday: with the team
  • Tuesday: with the team
  • Wednesday: with the team
  • Thursday: with the team
  • Friday: with the team
  • Saturday: with the team
  • Sunday: with the team

 

So as you can see, when a Merge team is here, we basically are 24/7 with the team. And we follow the rhythm and routine of that specific schedule for the week.

 

2. When a Merge team is not here: 

And let me preface this by saying, this is how an average week could, more often then not, looks like. Some weeks, it does not even resemble this routine:

  • Monday: Office day (Writing cards, answering emails, working on Merge and budget accounts, planning future meetings and teachings and preachings)
  • Tuesday: Marriage Bible Study (We love our Marriage bible study group and wish we could go every Tuesday of the month)
  • Wednesday: Bible Study in the mountains (always look forward to this, we usually bring some baked goods to share, sing together, read a chapter of the bible together, converse and ask questions and seek answers together, and eat together)
  • Thursday: Meetings day and travel day (we try to use this day to schedule any meetings with pastors, church boards, and ministry committees)
  • Friday: Restocking day, cleaning day, laundry day (we use this day to go food shopping, to clean the house, do laundry, bake bread and sweets, and this is our movie night of the week as well)
  • Saturday: Free day, exploration day, and pancake breakfast day (it’s hard sometimes not to want to live for this day…I also like to call this day, “Soul Care Day”, as we use this day to do activities or not do activities to feed and care for our souls)
  • Sunday: Church, preaching, meetings day, plan and prepare for new week (Sundays can sometimes be the busiest day of the week with a lot of times having to go and preach in other churches, or teach classes or have meetings with church boards and pastors)

So that, my friends, is an attempt at answering your question: “what do your days look like” as we continue to discover for ourselves what it looks like and means to us.

 

 

Love,

Elizabeth

 

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