It's a new year and to be honest, I love new beginnings. I love finishing off things - like the cereal box or a notebook.. - anyone else get some satisfaction over using something up? But I also love the start of things... beginning of the school year, the starting of a new program, the first page of a new book - there is something so Hopeful about new beginnings. And this new year is not without that Hope. Last year I joined the movement (per se) of choosing a word of the year. That word was Believe. This year I have wondered if I'd have a word again. Tossing around lots in my head - but nothing seemed to settle with me. Then.. it came. Written at the end of a talk I'm doing for a MOP's group next week. I talk about Surrendering. And no - that's not my word, although it's a good one! I end my talk by saying that Surrendering brings HOPE. And I read it again, and it resonated with me. No...
My faith is important to me. Or, let me clarify; my God is important to me. So much of what I talk about, busy myself with, learn about, surround myself with...etc is connected to my faith and my relationship with God. To be honest, it's the thing I am most passionate about. I LOVE to talk about God with others. I love sitting about and sharing faith stories and pulling apart a verse from the Bible. I love hearing other's insight into what that verse is teaching them. I'm a pretty laid back, even keeled person - but when conversations turn to God - I get excited. I remember the first time I realized that talking about God and being comfortable with that, excited even was on my very first mission trip as a teenager. I was 15 and we were in a community center at a homeless shelter in Boston. As a young child and teenager and sometimes even now - I tended to be very quiet and shy. At school I was not the one raising m...
So, I've jumped on the bandwagon and starting watching Tidying Up on Netfllix.. and I'm pretty much hooked. Marie is so adorable and kind. I mean really.. . who would not want her to come help you tidy up? But is her method really practical? Doable? Maybe and..... Maybe not. I have been saying for years.. over and over again - My house is a mess, there is too much stuff, I need to clean out.. WE need to clean out!!!! But, aside from a few things here and there, so much of the junk just stays. And this year, I'm declaring it's the year of "Tidying UP" I figured I'd start with something easy: My Wardrobe. I can pull all my clothes out. I can go through them one by one. I try to regularly clean out my clothes but there are definitely pieces that I've held on in hopes that one day... I piled them up on my bed, empty drawers, empty closet (aside from everything else that was in the c...
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