Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Today's Gifts

  • my kids eating fruit
  • life skills
  • Christer choosing a Kindle
  • more GoodReads friends
  • emotionally expressive children <3
  • clean laundry
  • ants not roaches
  • ebooks
  • air conditioning
  • my Best Friend

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

My 1000 Gifts



(the beginning - in no particular order)

  • sticky kissings
  • library books
  • granting wishes
  • walking through the breezes
  • dappled shade
  • paid bills
  • real food
  • new acquaintance
  • daisies
  • my Sweetheart <3
I was introduced to this idea today (by a new aquaintance!) and found out it is from a book! I have ordered the book, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp  after reading the first chapter online and am looking forward to devouring it. :)

Monday, 27 June 2011

Different/Improving

It would seem that having the opportunity to improve over the years there would be some sort of visible progress. I'm not sure there is. Sounds cryptic, but I don't really want to be specific online. It feels sufficient to say there has been at least minute progress in some areas and obvious regression in others. I suppose I am in a state of evaluation - the progress and regress will be named and dealt with. The biggest problems will be what has neither progressed nor regressed but remained static. :(

One of the things I know I want to work on is writing. More. With regularity. I'm not concerned with anyone reading it at this point. (even this blog for that matter) I want to get words out. Unstop the flow. Direct the flood. Make it useful. Organize thoughts and feelings. Make sense of them.

Another thing I want to work on is Grace. The kind deserving a capitol letter. Appreciating that which I live under and extending it to others in a second by second, thought by thought, action by action sort of way.

The toughest one I think will be boundaries - allowing myself to have them with others and reinforcing them. This is trickier because I need to figure out how this works intertwined with Grace.

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Of a curious note: I wonder if I am ever going to conquer certain weaknesses?