I love the cover of the journal I have right now. It says “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” Yep. And I’m not talking just about stuff, material things. Nope, it’s about so much more than that. Am thinking gratitude does change things in big ways. The cool thing is that oftentimes it doesn’t take big steps to make big changes. Nope. It just takes little noticings (my new word) –little steps of awareness that lead to more awarenessRead more
Posts filed in: Hope
Morning Light
I pray you see the morning light That darkness won’t prevail that you’ll be focused on the fight the will to live unveiled the will to live, the ray of hope oh seek it with your all we love you more than anything please answer to love’s call we can’t control the choices made You’ve said it time and again the choice to live , the will to give Yes, It is in your hands Yes, in your hands butRead more
in the in between
In the basement In the deep end In the cellar of my soul In the basement In the deep end There’s a fear that grips, controls In the darkness there’s a battle I must fight And fight to win But the irony, the beauty, –can it come in the surrender? Surrender? oh surrender… to relinquish and to see It’s accepting, not rejecting- With great courage, comes great peace In the stopping, in the hearing, In the ground beneath my feetRead more
Bare
Sometimes when everything else is stripped away, we can see a little clearer. I drive by these woods every day, sometimes multiple times. But for most of the year, I can’t see the morning sun. It’s only in the winter months, when the leaves have fallen and the trees are left bare that I can see through the gray of the trees to the warm glow of that rising orb in the sky. I’m thinking sometimes in life, when thingsRead more
knocking on our doors…
Sometimes the gift of amazing opportunity comes knocking on our doors in ways we’d never choose. Am thinking this might just be one of those times. Please listen to the little discussion by Mike Smith. Full of such good reminders for what we’re facing these days. I tried, but can’t share it on WordPress for some reason, but if you search Vimeo for Mike Smith’s “Rooted in Love” , you’ll find it. ❤ #pray #speak #lovewell #read Read more
lost and found
sometimes … it takes getting lost… really, really, really lost… To realize… that we need to be Found. Being found isn’t about finding this or finding that, searching for this, or searching for that. It’s not about finding ourselves or losing ourselves, It’s about being found…someone seeking us out and finding us. Like that lost sheep… Or that lost coin…. Sometimes….. We need someone to seek us out when we are lost and don’t know which way to turn.Read more
(not-so-Silent) Sunday
There’s a cool breeze blowing in western NC this morning. The sun is shining and it’s not yet the predicted 90 degrees–it’s an early morning 75 degrees. Well, I made my coffee and looked out the window and saw this beautiful little white morning glory and it just gave me a glimmer of hope. I’ve had this morning glory plant (as well as some other perennials) in a big pot for years. Usually, it starts blooming in early July. ButRead more
New
New Every Morning. That’s what the Bible says. It says that His mercies are new…. …His mercies are new…not just on some mornings. The Bible says that His mercies are new EVERY morning. His mercies are new…EVERY morning… whether we have the eyes to see those mercies….or not. Then the verse says, “Great is Your faithfulness, O Lord.” If it were up to me, well my mercies might be new some mornings, and some evenings. But if I didn’t haveRead more
…a few thoughts on certainty…
I love morning. It’s like a fresh start. Sometimes it comes a lot sooner than I’d like and I’m the queen of the snooze button, but I still love mornings. I read some good things this morning. Some mornings, it’s just a quick devotion. Other mornings, I get to linger a bit over coffee and music, and some mornings, like this morning, even though I was running a little bit behind, I decided to skimp on other things–not to skimpRead more
a little post script…
“p.s.” is a tool that I definitely take advantage of quite often. It’s also one that I want to use today for the post I shared yesterday entitled “different”. (To reference it, here ya go… “different” ) When I finished the post yesterday, it just didn’t feel finished. At all. I was NOT trying to write of platitudes, but gut level acceptance of life that was “different” than what I’d hoped for, and yet even though what I was thinking wasRead more
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