“We’re here for a little window. And to use that time to catch and share shards of light and laughter and grace seems to me the great story.”
Using the late author and University of Portland editor Brian Doyle as a touchstone, and speaking as a teacher, past soccer player and coach, mother, spouse and Christian, Lisa Chambers reflected on the gospel passage about living life in the present, not the future — not like kids who lament on the weekend because they imagine Monday coming all too soon.
Her shared experiences, some traumatic, were told from the other side of having passed through it and what graces helped her through these transitions. As a mother juggling her teaching work, children attending virtual school, and her own anxieties during the Covid-19 pandemic, Lisa talked about learning how not to worry about “what isn’t,” but what IS. Accompany Lisa on her journey attending to the moments of life, the “shards of light.”