A Pivot - Enjoy a Few Alaska Photos

June 20, 2026 Cathleen Zahradnik

What do you do when your plan falls through? Do you pivot, pout, or have patience?

Thankfully, God has helped me get past pouting…most of the time. This post is a pivot. Next post will be about having patience when there’s nothing you can do.

I’ve got a post in process for you about how preparing my heart in advance helped me deal with the unexpected on our trip, but I’ve been sick the last few days and need to give myself some more recovery time.

Enjoy a few more Alaska photos!

I kept taking pictures trying to capture the magnificent expanse of snow-capped mountains. It’s impossible!

Beautiful blue-green Marjerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park. Kudos to Tom for this beautiful photo. Stunning!

A picture-perfect day in Ketchikan!

Thanks for your patience.

Blessings, friend!

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You’ve left the room, but the argument is not over. Your thoughts are stuck in a loop. The same hurtful exchange of words flashes across your mind over and over and over. You can’t seem to reset your inner replay. All the emotions that should have stayed in that room follow you everywhere you go. Hurt and anger continue to shout in your ears. Your heart rate is through the roof. Hot anger rises in your flushed face. The war is far from over.

Your inner screening room then begins playing out possible outcomes for a future exchange. You don’t really know what will happen, but your mind is already strategizing your next offensive in the war of words. Your emotions rise and fall with every imagined interaction. When you hurl an imagined barb at your intended target proud and triumphant vindictiveness rises to the surface. You feel all the emotions of a situation that hasn’t really happened and then you carry that resentment into the next conversation which turns into another altercation. Your emotions have become attached to an unreality. Nothing actually happened before you walked into the room. Do you truly want to spend your emotional energy on something that isn’t even real?

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