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Mar 28

Making Bread

“You miss the living because you are waiting for perfect, and so you let goodness and blessings pass you right on by.”― Emily P. Freeman, Graceful (For Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

“I don’t want to live my life in such a hurry that I’m always closing the fridge door with my foot and scribbling out birthday cards in my car at the last minute. I want to make bread, or at least find the time to toast it.”― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

Fun
Play
Laughter
Connection
Joy
Delight
Gratitude
Generosity
Kindness
Praise
Reverence
Awe
Empathy
Compassion
Yielding
Inviting
Pausing
Slowing
Kneeling
Wonder
Smiling
Kneading
The ingredients for the bread of life
Make bread
Toast it too

“To name a place requires us to be in a place. It requires us to resist dreaming of where we should be and look around where we are.”― Pádraig Ó Tuama, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

Mar 7

Woven into Each Day, Love

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” – Bennet Cerf

“Remember Me:
To the living, I am gone.
To the sorrowful, I will never return.
To the angry, I was cheated,
But to the happy, I am at peace,
And to the faithful, I have never left.
I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.
So as you stand upon a shore, gazing at a beautiful sea – remember me.
As you look in awe at a mighty forest and its grand majesty – remember me.
As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity – remember me.
Remember me in your heart, your thoughts, your memories of the times we loved,
the times we cried, the times we fought, the times we laughed.
For if you always think of me, I will never be gone.” – Margaret Mead

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”― William W. Purkey

Two years ago today, Mom passed.
Not a day goes by that I/we don’t miss and think of her, and smile.
Dad, coming up on 9 years in April.
From loss, to grief, to laughter and sweet memories.
And then back through it all again in different ways.
The shape and substance of love.
Time goes slow, then fast.
Really fast.
Befores and afters.
No do-overs.
Know what’s important and put your time and attention there
Faith, family, friends, humanity.
Be kind, patient, listen, generous, forgive, forget, remember, grateful, be present this day.
Invite awe, fun, wonder, joy, laughter, light in and cast it back out.
Love well.
The only act that truly changes the world and gives meaning and purpose to our days.

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” – Plato

Mar 3

Off Path to Wonder

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter” – Mark Twain

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Less doing, busy, transactions
More making, building, creating
Color, oxygen, joy, light, music, art, nature, fun
To root, renew, restore
A sense of wonder and awe
Ease  and delight found in wandering off path, discovery
Gratitude in praise
For another day
And the sense and openness to breathe it all in
Walk lightly, with anticipation and delight.

“Forgiveness is a refusal to armor your own heart—a refusal to live in a constricted heart,” he said, seemingly as much to himself as to me. “Living with that openness means feeling pain. It’s not pretty, but the alternative is feeling nothing at all.”― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Feb 27

Ordinary, Fresh Wonder

“We’re invited to pay attention to the enchanted world around us in a new way, to be open to the possibility of an encounter with God at every moment.”― Mike Cosper, Recapturing the Wonder

“Sometimes we get so hung up on doing something great, we forget the best thing is often the smallest.”― Shannan Martin, The Ministry of Ordinary Places

Open the windows
Hair in the wind
Clear the clutter
Create space
Slow, yield, pause
For joy, wonder, enchantment, awe
In small, ordinary, daily moments
Rhythms, signposts, practices
Spring woven in winter
Open the windows
Ordinary, fresh wonder

“To experience the richness of life in God’s kingdom, we must reorder our lives. We need to see through the shallow promises of our culture, and we need rhythms, signposts, and practices that reorient us to another world.”― Mike Cosper, Recapturing the Wonder

Feb 16

Joy Hunt

“It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.”― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

“To everyone out there
trying to keep going,
Don’t look too far ahead,
this day is all you need to
partake in, right now.
Take it one step at a time,
remembering to find the sunlight
and the beauty in each moment.
Cast out the darkness and
celebrate the light that is
always present when you
open your eyes and your heart.
Cherish this day as a gift
not given to everyone.” – C.E. Coombes

To remain in this day
Partake, receive, steep
To be here
Fully present in now
On the hunt for joy, ease, delight on the path
Gratitude, grief, grace
Woven together in the tapestry of this day

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Feb 13

kaleidoscope of new possibilities

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” – Jean Houston

Yield
Look up and around
Pause
Breathe deep and exhale
Put it down, all of it
The world, the worry, the doing
Lighten up
Laughter, delight, fun
From shovel to ladder
Kaleidoscope of new possibilities
Release some endorphins today, repeat daily
Fuel for the soul
Oil for the spirit
Food for the journey

“The first rule of holes: When you’re in one stop digging.”― Molly Ivins

Jan 24

Yes to Joy!

“Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.”― Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes

“As we step into the days ahead, whether they’re brimming with plans or full of life’s regular rhythm, may you carry this truth. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. Not for what you achieve or what you accomplish, but simply because you are here. The person that doesn’t have to do another darn thing. A blessing maybe if you’re a little tired.

Blessed are you, weary one. You who feel the weight of the world’s demands and yet dare to pause even for a moment and wonder, Is there more here than this? Then all this doing and making and chasing and striving? Than the laundry and checklists, gym memberships and morning routines. Blessed are you not for what you accomplish, but for the quiet truth of who you are. A soul already worthy, already loved. May you find joy in this simple act of being. And may you remember, even on the hardest days, that grace is not earned. It is yours to receive.” – Kate Bowler

Bookend of the week
Hard stop.
Inquire and listen
What did I discover?
Who did I connect with?
How did I spend my time?
How did I feel?
Did I laugh?
Did I rest?
Did I have fun?
Did I love well?
Human beings
Being not doing
Pause. Reflect. Notice.
Narrow. Hone. Deepen.
Slow. Savor. Steep.
More “no” to get to the best “yes”
May joy find you each day.
May you let her in.
Big Yes!

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.” – Carl Jung

Jan 12

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Play Date

“Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.” – Julia Cameron

“Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.” – Wayne Dyer

Play date.
A few hours painting pottery.
Choosing the piece.
The colors.
The pattern.
Trying something new.
No expectations, formulas, rules.
No score, measurement, counting, comparing, producing.
No checklists or transactions.
Entering flow.
Time suspended.
Exploration.
Allowing.
Simple acts of getting out of your head.
Into your heart.
Slowing to the fullness of time.
Creating, emergence, stillness.
The gift of play to renew and refresh.
May we be wise enough as children to weave into each day.

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus

Nov 29

Wonder and Whimsey

“Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.”― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.” – Bob Goff

A sense of wonder.
Joy overflowing, without trying.
Time with kids.
A masterclass in delight, awe, whimsy, love.
Connect with the child within.
Invite fun and frolic.
Make space for joy.

“When joy is a habit, love is a reflex.”― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

Sep 25

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A Fund of Delight

“Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.” – Daniel Boone

“Simple being is a deep sigh of relief that comes from letting go of pretense. It is also the sigh that comes from releasing a heavy burden that results from creating and managing the false selves that are substitute centers for the truth of our being. It is the sigh of release as we exchange complexity for simplicity. It is the sigh of release as we let go of preoccupations, inordinate attachments, and disordered passions. Things in the depths of our beings get aligned when we let go of these things.”― David G. Benner, Presence and Encounter

Break away from doing.
Simple being.
Deep sigh.
Travel light.
Release and put down.
Found in the seeking.
In the finding.
Joy chasing.
Wonder overflowing.
Rhythms of grace.
A fund of delight.

“Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.”― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” – Isaac Asimov

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