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...
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...
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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