Archive for September, 2012

If not in the storm then when?

Putting on the armor of God each day could be summed up in the idea of surrendering each day to live consciously within Christ.  Living through him is the most powerful armor one can wear to face this life.  Some of us, more then others, notice or are overwhelmed by the day to day storms.  The storms are for real, they can be crippling and sneaky and devastating, especially if your spiritual skin is too thin.

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Mizie

She took a deep breath in, held it… and then slowly let it out.  But for the mess of breakfast dishes, and the almond milk left sitting out again,  it would be hard to tell there was a crew of kids in that kitchen only minutes before.  Gazing out the window she spotted the big yellow bus pull away… with her crew of kids.  Turning back to the dishes she sighed deeply and hugged her mug of coffee close.

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A Week Of Mornings

If you like table top books I highly recommend ‘A Year of Mornings’.  Inspired by this photography book’s subject and approach, AND to celebrate not being sick every morning any more, I collected a week of morning pictures for this post

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Penmanship

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Prancing

Some times I feel so much better then I have come to expect that I think about prancing through the day.  As long as I am still at home I can assume everyone will understand and not be weirded out by it… that thought leaves pretty much the moment I am locking the door and jumping into the van… even before I am out of the driveway.  Good mornings really do warrant something though, don’t they?  Today I went with it and got a ‘to do’ done that I had been easily putting off.  The prancing and dancing came later… once I had returned home 🙂

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