"Celebrate what you want to see more of." – Tom Peters
"The healthiest response to life is joy." - Deepak Chopra Just as I love new year resolutions, I love new birth year resolutions! For year 29, I decided I want to start a routine of waking up early to spend time doing what I care about before work...because otherwise, it doesn’t happen. But, you guys, [...]
"I came that you may have life, and have it abundantly." - John 10:10 In May, there was a lot of uncertainty at my workplace. Our leaders had to make some hard decisions due to our budget numbers and we weren’t sure what that would mean for our team and our work. This is not [...]
Lately, I've become obsessed with the Enneagram- "a description of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types (Wikipedia)." I had diagnosed myself as a type 2, but have recently discovered I'm actually a type 4. I could spend this entire post talking about what that [...]
In January, I heard a story from John Ortberg on a podcast that has stuck with me the past few months: Not long after moving to Chicago, I called a wise friend to ask for some spiritual direction. I described the pace of life in my current ministry. The church where I serve tends to [...]
Sometimes when reading scripture, I lose the meaning of what these words mean. The Bible uses all these abstract yet common words that we're all expected to know what they mean. But the more I read them, the less they seem to actually mean something real to me. Love. Light. Truth. Life. This month I've [...]
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" - Alfred Lord Tennyson HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here are the top five things I'm working on this month. Warning - they are very new beginnings/new resolutions focused - how fitting for January 🙂 1. Lessons Learned in 2017 I just [...]
The LORD is my light and my salvation--whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid?" -Psalm 27:1 1. Hopkins Date Night Aaron and I had the most fun date night on a warm Friday night in the middle of May. While eating at Longfellow Grill earlier [...]
Hi Friends! I'm doing glimpses of joy a little different this month. In February, I tried to have a focus to each week that I felt God putting on my heart. I prayed about it and started my day thinking about it. I found that they actually showed how God was working in my life that [...]
"We're having one of those moments. One of those moment's when everything is so perfect and so wonderful that... you almost feel sad because nothing could ever be this good again." - Rory Gilmore Here are my glimpses of joy from January. 4: "Click, click" (Lobster hands). 7 & 14: Doing nothing with your favorite [...]
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." -Tom Peters As we embark on a new year, I wanted to take the time to look at the year past and record just one glimpse of joy, one awesome moment or memory from each month of 2016. Here's my list. January Fun winter date nights with Aaron [...]
GLIMPSES OF JOY 