You have this vision for how you want your family to be doing.  But you wake up one day and it hits you in the face that the family is off course.  The patterns may have shifted gradually and the changes were subtle.  One child is doing well and another, not so great.  The marriage is lukewarm and you want it to be hot!  You search for explanations and ask yourself “why” the vision is not being fulfilled?

We have this built-in mechanism that makes us look back as if we missed something and it can be discovered and then we can fix it.  It may be, though, that going back is a trap and sets us up for repeating the old stuff once again.

I know it is a lot of responsibility but I have always believed that mothers are the true North.  They are the fixed point by which we set our course.  Yikes, you say, another one of those blaming mothers.  If it sounds that way, I’m sorry.  It is really quite the opposite.  It is a statement about how much power you have.

Forget looking back.  Trust the vision.  Settle for nothing less.  Lead us into a new future…