As a congregation member of mine put it one time, “Everything’s just a little bit bad.” You know the feeling. It’s not as bad as it could be but things aren’t great and you need a boost. Here are five things that have helped me during a rough patch.
“Essen! Essen! Essen!” was what I heard a young man shout on his way to the cafeteria at the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Paraguay in 2009.