"Celebrate what you want to see more of." – Tom Peters
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 đ 1. Lessons Learned in 2017 I just [...]
"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." -Helen Hunt Jackson 2: Bus rides and card games with family. 6: The quiet after your guests leave for the evening. 10: Sitting at the point, the wind whipping off the water and through the pines. [...]
Iâm in a small group at my church. A small group is essentially a group of friends who hang out once a week- usually studying the Bible, but also sharing whatâs going on in our lives and just doing life together. After studying a passage from the Bible together, we have âaccountability time.â What this [...]
For the past few months, Iâve been writing down something Iâm grateful for each day- a little glimpse of joy in my everyday life. This summer has been a heavy one, but even in that, perhaps more so because of it, these little moments of joy have been important to remember and record. Here are [...]
Last week I shared about Lewisâ concept of joy: âa longing for the ineffable, something so otherworldly that even our desire for it seems alien: âIt is⌠an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.ââ (Whitesell, 2013) This type of joy hits you when you least expect it, itâs beyond your [...]
This month, I started recording the little glimpses of joy in my everyday life: moments of gratitude, beauty and peace. Hereâs how Godâs sprinkled grace into my life this month. Isnât it crazy how itâs often the quiet, simple moments that matter the most? I donât want to take any of them for granted. Being [...]
GLIMPSES OF JOY 