Sleep betrayed me Monday night. I tossed in the humidity and turned over a list of things undone from the previous day, week, ok month, and instead of waking up like Cinderella, I resembled one of the less than lovely step sisters. Not every day can be a fairy tale, I suppose. So how providential is it that I… Continue reading Desirable Discipline and Fairy Tale Feelings
Dawn broke early in the week not in it's usual brazen pinks and golds but shrouded within a silver mist. My head as foggy as the air outside my door. Monday's have that way about them. Early in the morning I sip coffee in the quiet. Flipping pages of 1 John looking for the light- love equals obedience. Faith… Continue reading How to Tell if You’re Brazen
The Palm Sunday musical, Maundy Thursday Last Supper and Resurrection Day came and went. We were reminded the tomb is indeed empty and the wooden set which bestowed it's share of splinters is reported to be living life anew under a bathroom floor that needed repair. The remainder is slated for the wood stove due… Continue reading A Seek and Find Easter
Stop. Right now where you are and take a deep breath. Deeper. Hold it. Ok now exhale sloooowly... There isn't that better? Whew... I think sometimes I forget to breathe. {You too?} It's not that my body doesn't do it on autopilot, which is quite astonishing and I'm grateful for, but it's more like I realize after a… Continue reading Something to Help You Catch Your Breath
Scheduling has always been my downfall. Every year I stand in the planner aisle of the office supply store and flip through cute flowered blank books of time waiting to be appointed. There's something exciting and alluring in the colors and fresh pages showing monthly, weekly and hourly lined clean slates ready for events and goals to be penciled in. Armed… Continue reading On Schedules, Stories and Stones
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