Category: From my Journal
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21 Days to Calm: Day 5
READ: Day 5: 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. WRITE: Take time to write the verse out on paper. (I have a PDF of today’s verse and practice you can use linked here. Feel free to download it. Or use your own journal or even a scrap…
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21 Days to Calm: Day 4
READ: Day 4: Matthew 6:34 Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. WRITE: Take time to write the verse out on paper. (I have a PDF of today’s verse and practice you can use linked to here. Feel free to download it.…
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21 Days to Calm: Day 3
READ:Day 3: Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You. WRITE: Take time to write the verse out on paper. (I have a PDF of today’s verse and practice you can use linked to here. Feel free to download it. Or use your own journal…
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21 Days to Calm: Day 2
Day 2: Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” WRITE: Take time to write the verse out on paper. (I have a PDF of today’s verse and practice you can use linked to here. Feel free…
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21 Days to Calm: Day 1
Good morning, dear friends! I am working to be more intentional about peace and calm in my life and about leaning on the Holy Spirit in that quest. In the event any of you may be facing anxiety, too, I’m inviting you along for the ride. For each of the next 21 days, I will…
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I can… and you can, too
Good morning, Friends. It’s been a minute. It’s been a LOT of minutes. Lately, I have been searching for affirmations I can use to encourage myself that are, in fact, true. I have worked my way through some grooovy ones that just did not feel right. Thenm today I was remided of this one: I…
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It’s been awhile….
Hello, sweet friends! It has been QUITE a LONG time since I’ve shared anything here and I have REALLY missed you! The site suffered some technical difficulties in the midst of the last group reading of the Bible and my family life also hit some speed bumps around that same time. I also took on…
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Enter His gates with thanksgiving (and reap the benefits!!)
This morning, before I launched into my reading, I decided to enter His gates with thanksgiving and praise. I first started praying quietly, thinking of the positive things that happened yesterday and thanking God for them. No, yesterday was not an outstanding day. Actually, it held a lot of exhaustion. But tiny reasons to be…
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Vision Boarding with Focus in my Planner
Last week I took the vison-boarding concept to my quarterly planner. Typically, at the start of a new journal or planner, I’ll go through magazines to find images words that appeal to me and glue them into the opening spread to remind me where I want my focus to be. I’ve use quotes, words, pictures…
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Navigating London & Life Jan 2020
Hello, sweet friends! I’ve just arrived in London for a few meetings here and in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the next week. It’s just after 9 am here, making it just after 3 am back home in Texas. (I try not to think of the time back home, but I had to share.) I snapped that…
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Giving Thanks: Gifts from a winter storm
Give thanks to the Lord; proclaim his name! Make his works known among the peoples. Declare that his name is exalted. Isaiah 12:4 Hello sweet friends! I am taking in the beautiful snow at Cornell University right now and just HAD to share it with you. I am parked here for a few days, awaiting…
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Hearing HIM through the noise
Does anyone else struggle in hearing His clear direction? I want to follow Him. I trust Him. I don’t think faith in Him is the problem… it’s faith in me to hear Him clearly. I look back on my life and see His hand so very clearly in so many ways in every single place.…
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Wondering or grumbling? What’s your manna?
Good morning Ladies!! This morning I was re-reading Exodus 16 and I thought about all that wandering and grumbling. Then I thought about all my asking for big signs, all my wondering while wandering, and the number of times He has sent them. And it occurred to me that perhaps my questioning and asking for…
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Looking for a beautiful story of humanity and love? I’ve got one!
This has been a summer filled with glorious books. I’ve enjoyed so much fiction, nearly fiction and non-fiction as I reveled in the extra time gained by not driving children across Houston to two or three schools and back. My latest read is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” and it was magnificent!…
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Drinking from the firehose of life… or balancing Giant Jenga
Hi friends. (Even if I have never laid eyes on every single one of you, I still feel like we’re friends since you’re reading about the details of my life. So I hope the casual greeting is okay with you.) This summer has been super crazy packed full. It’s been filled with gorgeous, beautiful amazing…