So true Sara! Your blog helps me to pause and pay attention. I'm not happy you stay in your (quite charming) four walls but the messages you're putting out here are just invaluable. Thank you~Keep blog-journaling :*
By giving us this gift of seeing your world, you enlarge ours--you raise us up. From an outsider privileged to peek inside your heart and home, I can tell you--your life shines. You've discovered the secret of contentment. It's contagious, knows no boundaries, and sets people free. Thank you.
celita
· 7 months ago
Hi, what a profound and moving post... I would love to be a person that steps on stepping stones before I stumble across them, but often I stumble first, back up and then having learned just an extra bit about my faultiness, take one step and then another, hoping I will do better the next time. It is a journey, walking across stepping stones. Not always an easy one, but so worth the challenge to the growing. Thank you for the chance to win!!! Blessings to you...
I am one who seriously has difficulty sticking with a journal. Yet, I'm enjoying blogging much more....maybe because I get feedback from my yammering. Blogging is definitely introducing me to some wonderful people (like you!) and teaching me wonderful lessons (like this one). Blessings, SusanD
I kept a diary as a child and over the years have journaled a bit now and then. My mother and her sister journaled for years and it is joyful and sometimes really funny to read their journals. Also humbling, as many of the entries are things they've done for us. Even though you can't go outside, your life seems so full and rich! I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to get to know you through your blog!
Yesterday I had "one of those days" where things went wrong from the time I woke up, until the time I went to bed. After returning home from dinner out with my 3 little ones, I realized we were locked out of the house. But do you know what? I think it was really God's way of ending my day on the RIGHT note. I spent two hours outside playing with my kids, drawing with chalk, riding the swings, playing in the sand, blowing bubbles, and laying in the grass on our backs looking up at the sky. Yep, God's plan for me yesterday was to throw all kinds of stumbling blocks in my way until I finally took a minute to stop and NOTICE what was going on around me : )
Debra
· 7 months ago
Good quote and great post, as usual! I think that this blog is a form of journaling. It's just not a private journal. We all get to share in your experiences and what God is teaching you and saying to you. I journal. I started a couple years ago in the midst of one of the worst trials in my life. I couldn't remember things and I couldn't remember what God was saying in my grief. So, I wrote it all out. I am so thankful that I started it. It is amazing to go back and read about His faithfulness. God is good, all the time! And, hey, what happened to that novel? I bet you would write an awesome one now!
Often - I feel like you've said it all...and then..you add more. Please continue to shed your beauty on us...okay?
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Kristy
· 7 months ago
I always tried (and failed) to keep journals. I have a few weak attempts from my school aged years. Blogging is nice though. I know I enjoy reading your thoughts every morning.
I can always tell you put a lot of thought into each of your blog posts. This one is no different.
God tells us to "Be still and know that He is God", but I know in our busy, rushed days its hard to do. I personally would like to take today as an opportunity to be still and see what God has in store for me.
Thanks for this post!
P.S. Great canvas too!
Candace
· 7 months ago
Another great post! :)
Kates
· 7 months ago
I am 7 weeks tomorrow!!! I am so excited!!! I sat looking at your canvas last night and knew that my rock of burden has been broken into the stepping stones that will bring us this precious little peanut. :) :) :)
I couldn't agree more! When things "happen" that seem so awful and inconvenient, they often end up being a blessing in disguise!
Lexy
· 7 months ago
Wow, what a great post! It speaks right to the heart of something I've been really working on - being still and paying attention, not taking anything for granted. I appreciate your thoughtful posts and look forward to them every morning :)
Amanda
· 7 months ago
Gorgeous post. Your attitude makes me smile every day. :)
Thanks once again for your words of wisdom!! I too have always tried, unsuccessfully, to journal.. And now I blog instead ;) Thanks for brightening my day!!
Vicky
· 7 months ago
Girl, did you crawl inside my head today, again? Exactly what I was thinking on my way home today. The whole "paying attention," which I seem to do more and more as I go about my days. And as I do, my abundance grows, and my gratitude for my abundance!
(I used to sit and copy the words out of Winnie the Pooh in an attempt to write early on)
I'd be so honored to win today! I'd think of you every time I read those words. Sweetie, your world may be small, but you are not small in your world!!
I just want to thank you for your blog. It has been such an inspiration to me. There are times when I feel as though I am constantly tripping because I'm not using the stepping stones and for this reason the ground constantly feels shaky. My 14 month old, Liam, has a chronic illness and is unable to eat any foods. He has a g-tube and is on a special elemental formula. We spent most of the month of March in the local children's hospital. We were told yesterday he may have to go back. This week is National Eosinophil Awareness week. There is no cure for him, yet. I am hopeful...trying to see the stepping stones. Again, thank you for writing.
Mandy
· 7 months ago
That's what I love about blogging too!! It just never works out when you try to keep a journal, does it?
Lauratina
· 7 months ago
I've journaled and stopped and started and stopped and started and stopped, and I've repeated that pattern too frequently to even begin to count. It's always with fervor and conviction that I begin, but all too soon things start interfering like the need for additional sleep (my attempts at early morning journaling) or other activities (who can miss even one episode of American Idol, for example?!?!) Arrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!
Someday, after I've left this planet and my family finds themselves sifting through my personal effects, they will find these journals with entries written at varying times and intervals throughout my life, and will say, "Well, you can say one thing for her.....she kept trying, anyway." A part of me hopes that's worth at least a little something.
Discipline......what's that?! :-[
You are an inspiration, Sara, and I'm so grateful to be able to share even just a little part of this life's journey with you! Blessings & hugs! :*
MandyThompson
· 7 months ago
"Funny thing happened on the way to making you all happy, though." You're funny!
:) When I started blogging, I also noticed the little things... Now that I'm twittering, I think in small spurts. That can't be good.
Considering the title of this post and the cute, furry mug at the top of this page, I thought for sure this was going to be about something Riley did!
I've always had the urge to write also. I've found it easier as I've gotten older because I've had more life experiences and therefore, have more to say!
Wow! I absolutely loved this!! Thank you so much for giving me something to think a little bit more carefully and prayerfully about. Very Inspiring~ Love, Ani (Dirty Knees)
You are so right, Gitz. Now that we blog we have to open our eyes to see all and try not to miss things. It tightens us up and helps us not to pass up blessings and to (sometimes...) look at even the difficult things in a meaningful or even humorous light. I haven't been laughing this week and felt pretty rough but I just jumped in and started writing this morning and God has returned my joy. I KNOW I'm right where I should be. Blessings my friend. You find EVERYthing to be thankful for. :)
In Rhode Island we have the Plymouth Rock. The symbolic rock upon which our Pilgrim ancestors first step onto what would become America.
From Matthew 16:18 we read that Jesus said to Simon Peter, "That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Then of course we have all the rocks people say are rattling around in what passes for my brain.
It is in our minds where we either build a wall to close off life, or a foundation to support our faith. The physical location of our bodies is often a product of circumstance, not design.
Whether we live in a mountain top, a shore front mansion, or a one room cabin, we see the world through our hearts, not our eyes.
I feel the same way about blogging. It makes me pay attention. When something crazy happens that would normally stress me out, I think, "Well, this will be fun to write about."
Your post was wonderful... sometimes we forget to watch each step we take and we stumble along with out really looking where we are going or where we have been... I am going to start being more aware of where I step and make it the right stepping stone leading me down the right path... We will all get where we are going one little step at a time... thanks for making me "think" about my life... the last few weeks I have been overwhelmed by Life and am unable to blog (journal); but, if I stop worrying about everything I will find my way back ... thanks for making me realize that I am not taking the right path in my life...
I agree with you. There is something about blogging that becomes addictive to those of us journaling wannabes. And it IS all about the listening. :)
Love your blog.
Kjay
· 7 months ago
When I was in second grade, I was sure I was writing the next Great American Novel... turns out, it bored me enough that I never actually finished it. I do love the connection of blogging, though it's not exactly a career path for me... thanks for sharing!
i've never been a consistent journaler. even now, i much prefer to type than write. but dang those writeable moleskines. i've been handwriting more than ever.
i'm still sending you one. i'm waiting for you to send me your addy and which one you want!
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God tells us to "Be still and know that He is God", but I know in our busy, rushed days its hard to do. I personally would like to take today as an opportunity to be still and see what God has in store for me.
Thanks for this post!
P.S. Great canvas too!
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(I used to sit and copy the words out of Winnie the Pooh in an attempt to write early on)
I'd be so honored to win today! I'd think of you every time I read those words. Sweetie, your world may be small, but you are not small in your world!!
Love to you! 8-)
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Someday, after I've left this planet and my family finds themselves sifting through my personal effects, they will find these journals with entries written at varying times and intervals throughout my life, and will say, "Well, you can say one thing for her.....she kept trying, anyway." A part of me hopes that's worth at least a little something.
Discipline......what's that?! :-[
You are an inspiration, Sara, and I'm so grateful to be able to share even just a little part of this life's journey with you! Blessings & hugs! :*
You're funny!
:) When I started blogging, I also noticed the little things... Now that I'm twittering, I think in small spurts. That can't be good.
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I've always had the urge to write also. I've found it easier as I've gotten older because I've had more life experiences and therefore, have more to say!
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I enjoyed reading about you writing when you were little. My daughter is a poet. I have just helped her set up a blog.
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From Matthew 16:18 we read that Jesus said to Simon Peter, "That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Then of course we have all the rocks people say are rattling around in what passes for my brain.
It is in our minds where we either build a wall to close off life, or a foundation to support our faith. The physical location of our bodies is often a product of circumstance, not design.
Whether we live in a mountain top, a shore front mansion, or a one room cabin, we see the world through our hearts, not our eyes.
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