Have you ever been on the way to a familiar place, so much so that you hardly paid attention to the drive? We do this most of our lives passing the same places for the same reasons. Until…a detour sign redirects your path.

An interruption for sure. They take longer and now you have to give full attention to the road ahead. Looking for the next sign hoping it takes you where you’re expecting to go.

Marriage can be this way. Even marriage blogs for that matter.

Today is normally our Foodie Fridays post, but today is a detour. Our Foodie Fridays started as a detour and has became the normal route for the last year and for reasons I can’t disclose.

Suffice it to say, God is teaching us new normals on this unexpected detour.

I have an internet friend who writes encouraging posts on her private Facebook page to young moms. She just experienced a detour we will all face at some point; her husband is facing a severe health crisis. All writing has stopped as her daughter updates the rest of us. I can only imagine the fear associated with this detour. Please pray for her and her husband.

Life brings us heartache.

This is what has slowed my writing down the last four years. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I don’t know how to say it rightly. What used to be easy, now takes more thought—and I haven’t had the energy to think that hard.

The road seems to be widening for the days ahead and for this I thank God. Tom and I have even started date nights again—ones that are planned for fun, not just because we need to eat.

I’ve heard it said that our ordinary days that seem mundane to us now will be the very days we will miss when our time together ends in this life.

Let’s celebrate the normal life God has given us. Even if they contain a few detours. It is worth the ride!

Have a great weekend.