I'm behind on my blogging, but still counting away! Here's some notes of thanks from the first week of February:
100. Reaching a count of 100 gifts, and appreciating the gift of a milestone reached.
103. Life Groups starting up again at church.
104. A date with my sweet nephew Charlie, and hearing his adorable voice from the backseat: "Thank you, Auntie Rebo."
Oh, how my heart melts at that!
No pics this week, that definitely fell through the cracks. I've also been missing a few days now and then; I've lost some momentum. I'm trying to keep up with the count, catching up with extra gifts some days, but need to remind myself that this is important and not turn out the light by the bed before I write in my gifts journal.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Thankful Thursday: Joy Dare Week 5
This week has been much better. I've been busier, experiencing a dramatically productive week at work (unheard of!) and well, what can I say? God is good.
This week:
79. Worship without work (I work part-time at a church, and it's not a foregone conclusion that I can worship on Sundays without having my day of rest interrupted with work.)
80. and 87. Time to create and be creative (different days/different ways.)
88. Affirmation from a coworker of something done well.
This week's "photo" is a little digi-paper-scraps image I threw together, it's a representation of a friend's house. I helped my friend move this week, and I stopped by her house the night before the big move. We reminisced together about the memories in that house, and for me, I remember the first time I hung out at her house, near the beginning of our friendship. This friendship has been a great blessing in my life these last two years, and I am so very, very grateful.
This week:
79. Worship without work (I work part-time at a church, and it's not a foregone conclusion that I can worship on Sundays without having my day of rest interrupted with work.)
80. and 87. Time to create and be creative (different days/different ways.)
88. Affirmation from a coworker of something done well.
This week's "photo" is a little digi-paper-scraps image I threw together, it's a representation of a friend's house. I helped my friend move this week, and I stopped by her house the night before the big move. We reminisced together about the memories in that house, and for me, I remember the first time I hung out at her house, near the beginning of our friendship. This friendship has been a great blessing in my life these last two years, and I am so very, very grateful.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Thankful Thursday: Joy Dare Week 4
This week has not been so awesome. I knew those days, those moments, would come, but I'm not enjoying the icky feelings that have been sticking with me much of this week, and these are certainly moments where I DON'T FEEL LIKE GIVING THANKS, thank you very much. Yet I trudge on, 3 little things every day. One thing, one day, I simply wrote after "it", the thing that was not awesome that day, "can I be thankful for this?" I'm not sure I succeeded at gratitude. But I wrote it down. I tried. Maybe in a day or 100 days I will learn what to be thankful for because of it. One hopes.
Sunday's sermon was about prayer and my pastor relayed an idea from C.S. Lewis (as he tends to do, being as he is a big fan of Lewis) that prayer is about relationships, and when the relationship between us and God is not 100%, we should engage in practicing the discipline of prayer anyway. Lewis said (something like) a practice of prayer is the cast around what is broken that helps us along until what is broken is healed and healthy and strong.
Day 20something and I'm not keen on thinking of 3 things. But I'm going to do it anyway. There are still good things and this practice, as crazy-hard as it is some days, is healing. Because I do this, I am reminded of other, good, wonderful, beautiful things - and for that I am thankful.
Things on my gifts list this week:
54. A gift from God's word:
57. helping one friend pack up for a move (which, thankfully, is a local move, or I would have a much harder time being thankful...)
59. hours spent with a friend, relaxing and chatting over some coffee. Mmmmm.
And a photo. My jobs give me reason to be creative in problem-solving, organization, etc., but not to be artistically creative. In my free time, I try to make time to create pretty things.
Sunday's sermon was about prayer and my pastor relayed an idea from C.S. Lewis (as he tends to do, being as he is a big fan of Lewis) that prayer is about relationships, and when the relationship between us and God is not 100%, we should engage in practicing the discipline of prayer anyway. Lewis said (something like) a practice of prayer is the cast around what is broken that helps us along until what is broken is healed and healthy and strong.
Day 20something and I'm not keen on thinking of 3 things. But I'm going to do it anyway. There are still good things and this practice, as crazy-hard as it is some days, is healing. Because I do this, I am reminded of other, good, wonderful, beautiful things - and for that I am thankful.
Things on my gifts list this week:
54. A gift from God's word:
"My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever"
- Ps 73:26
57. helping one friend pack up for a move (which, thankfully, is a local move, or I would have a much harder time being thankful...)
59. hours spent with a friend, relaxing and chatting over some coffee. Mmmmm.
And a photo. My jobs give me reason to be creative in problem-solving, organization, etc., but not to be artistically creative. In my free time, I try to make time to create pretty things.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Thankful Thursday: Joy Dare Week 3
Things I'm thankful for this week:
28. "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis (emphasis mine)
36. Warm blankets and fluffy pillows.
42. Hope still.
Two photos this week... I got flowers not once, but twice. In one week! The hydrangea arrangement was the centerpiece from the women's retreat at church last weekend. I was the lucky one at our table whose birthday was closest to the date of the event, so I got to take home the flowers. Then, Tuesday, someone brought me flowers as a thank you gift, so that's makes twice in a week - wow! I love flowers, so I am enjoying these gifts.
28. "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis (emphasis mine)
36. Warm blankets and fluffy pillows.
42. Hope still.
Two photos this week... I got flowers not once, but twice. In one week! The hydrangea arrangement was the centerpiece from the women's retreat at church last weekend. I was the lucky one at our table whose birthday was closest to the date of the event, so I got to take home the flowers. Then, Tuesday, someone brought me flowers as a thank you gift, so that's makes twice in a week - wow! I love flowers, so I am enjoying these gifts.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Thankful Thursday: Joy Dare Week 2
Things I'm thankful for this week:
10. A day at Disneyland :)
16. Shared with me on Facebook by a dear cousin/friend/sister: "Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease." - Lamentations 3:21-22
25. A zero minute commute (I started working from home 1 day per week, something I'd been trying to get approved for at least 6 months.)
A photo for the week, related to #10, but actually #12 all on it's own
10. A day at Disneyland :)
16. Shared with me on Facebook by a dear cousin/friend/sister: "Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease." - Lamentations 3:21-22
25. A zero minute commute (I started working from home 1 day per week, something I'd been trying to get approved for at least 6 months.)
A photo for the week, related to #10, but actually #12 all on it's own
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