The Season of Lent

This Lenten season let us look for the joy.

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A Prayer for a New Week

Another Monday, another fresh week, another opportunity to live right here right now.

A Prayer For A Restful Weekend

The past few weeks have been hard and rest, joy, and play have felt less present because of my constant worry of work. This weekend I am confessing that I struggle with letting rest and play be top priorities and in confessing I invite the God of sabbath to teach me another way.

Tuesday Morning Joys

I get so in my head and so focused on one or two things that I forget to live inside of my body and to be present where I am. When I get like this I get stuck and live even more in my head than in my body and real life. I am trying to find things that help and reflecting on my joys truly does.

Tea On The Hard Days

Sometimes the things most sacred to us have everything to do with our religion or religious practices or nothing to do with them—or even somewhere in between. Tea is one of my sacred practices and its somewhere in between.

All Kinds of Joy

Just a list of some Tuesday joys—all kinds of them!

A Prayer for A Better Week

Last week was not my week—I pray that this week might be better. So here is a prayer to start off this week.

St. Patrick’s Day Joys

This lenten practice is challenging me in a way I need and invites me to show up for myself and to look for where God has met me throughout the day.

A Good Day

In the face of such suffering--looking for the joy in the world seems like absolute foolishness. And yet, my heart and mind and soul needs the joy to be able to continue on this journey.

God Found Me

Today, God met me right where I was at and at the precisely right time. I let myself be held and for that I am grateful.

Weekend Joys

I was having so much fun with friends this weekend that I forgot to share! Here is a little recap of my weekend joys. I hope you might be able to get a sprinkle ice cream cone soon!

 

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Tuesday Morning Joys

I get so in my head and so focused on one or two things that I forget to live inside of my body and to be present where I am. When I get like this I get stuck and live even more in my head than in my body and real life. I am trying to find things that help and reflecting on my joys truly does.

This is a list of collected joys over the past few days.

  • New pajamas

  • Sleeping in on the weekends in the new pajamas

  • Freshly done laundry

  • A clean counter

  • Dishes put away and the dishwasher being run

  • The incredible luxury of putting recycling out and having someone take it away—it is satisfying and I am really grateful

  • A new exercise that is fun and exciting for both Will and myself

  • Will will be on a more manageable schedule in just a few days!

  • The new season of Bridgerton to watch

  • Getting to eat meals with people I love

  • Drinking lots of tea on Saturday morning

  • Mid morning naps

  • Sunny weather

  • Getting to wear spring clothes

  • The chance to participate in meaningful ways

  • Receiving snail mail

  • Thinking about taking vacation

  • A new coloring book and colored pencils

  • The way the colored pencils slide smoothly across the coloring pages

  • Writing with pens full of bright and happy designs

  • Loving and supportive mentors

  • Writing on pretty paper

  • Sitting outside, eating cheese and crackers, and journaling

  • Devotions that speak to my heart and soul, bringing such comfort

  • Reading other’s stories and learning how they connect to the Divine

  • Hearing people’s stories, being invited in to hear and listen

  • Flowers—fresh in a vase at my house, on a bush, blooming from the ground/pot, designed on my pens, paper, and mugs (really anywhere)

  • Getting to hold and snuggle Olive

  • Trying on sparkly things

  • Packages of lightly salted mixed nuts

  • Sleeping in accidentally and still making it to work on time (while feeling decently rested)

  • Looking forward to Mysteries of the Abandoned on Science channel Monday nights

  • Remembering I am more than my job (that yes, I love to do but it is not all of me)

  • Hearing lovely stories about the way God shows up and helps

  • Talking to my grandmother

  • Eating dinner with my parents

  • Eating dinner/breakfast with my mother in law

  • Showing my new clothes to my mother in law

  • A new dress

  • Laughing so hard tears start to form in my eyes

  • Choosing to believe in my dream and to step into creating for the sake of creating

  • Therapy

  • Feeling energized on this Tuesday morning

    I was in quite a rut on Sunday. I get so in my head and so focused on one or two things that I forget to live inside of my body and to be present where I am. When I get like this I get stuck and live even more in my head than in my body and real life. I am trying to find things that help and reflecting on my joys truly does. Reflecting on the big joys, small joys and all the joys in between lets me realize that not everything is awful and that this life, this world, this body, this person I am right here right now deserves to live here in the present and that the holy, Divine, and set apart is right here just waiting to be found.

    May joy meet you wherever you find yourself to be today and everyday.

    Amen.

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