Did you wake to the birds this morning? Soft sunlight filtering through the curtains? Or maybe, like me, you woke to something a little more… chaotic.
They say parents of children with autism experience stress levels equivalent to combat soldiers. That might sound dramatic—until you wake to the garage door going up, the front door wide open, wallets strewn across the floor… and you’re yet to locate Oscar who was found in the laundry.
And then you drive all the way to South Auckland for a disability-friendly stunt school session only for the noise to be too overwhelming. You last 15 minutes outside the gym before you call it and leave.
It could have been a morning lost to frustration.
But instead, you drive out West, find a fabulous playground, and reclaim the day.
Mornings like these can often feel anything but redemptive. And yet, redemption is something that God weaves into the messiness of ordinary life.
Redemption isn’t just about our eternal salvation, it’s also about the small and daily opportunity to see beauty in the unexpected. To let go of frustration and embrace grace. To trust that God is always at work, restoring, renewing. Bringing peace and grace and hope and joy and love to our door…
Even when things don’t go as planned—when mornings are chaotic or disappointments come—God is still present.
Today didn’t go the way I’d planned and that’s okay.
To Easter Sunday I look.
Blue Skies & Lollipops 
❤️ always a silver lining 🙏🏻❤️