The Hobbit
(Reposted from my other blog, from 2014, but edited quite a bit. My sons and I have been obsessively watching the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies lately. Okay, mostly me. But I can't get enough of them! I'm starting on the books now too. A great way to spend lockdown.) I was driving to the flower shop today to pick up some onion transplants when I heard a line from a song that really stuck with me. It was something about ‘not knowing how the journey will end.’ And it hit me that that’s exactly what has always scared me about life ... not knowing where things are headed. To me, everything feels doomed, like tragedy and heartache are always right around the corner. And so I guess I live with a constant, deep sense of anxiety and discouragement. Always waiting for the next bad thing. And I began to think, " Why do I always have to thi...