Joy Habit
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moreWhen You’re Feeling a bit Lost: How to Find Your Way back to Joy?
On Wednesday, October 03 rd, 2012‘You look a bit lost, girl.” I sink down beside her on the kitchen floor and I know sinking. The cork floor’s cool. “You feeling lost, Shalom?” She’s got her arms wrapped around her knees, pulling everything right under her chin, those curls of hers spiralling down everywhere, everywhere spiralling. Shalom, her name means wholeness, delight, ...
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moreOne of the Key Secrets about Joy . . . . . {Free Printable}
On Tuesday, October 02 nd, 2012“Choose Joy. The universe works this way: you can choose joy like your weather, like your very own sky. Like your very own oxygen.” For the one key secret and a very free printable … and a space to be real and velveteen – Please come join in over here today? We’re saving a place just for you. ...
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moreBest Way to Begin October: 31 Days to Crazy Joy {with Farm Video}
On Monday, October 01 st, 2012Welcome! To 31 Days?! I’ve never done a “31 days” before. I’m crazy. Crazy enough to think that everyone who breathes is a wild crusader for holy joy. The woman bent over the stove. The man pulling on work boots. All those who feel invisible and unimportant and alone and discouraged ...
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moreThe Best Way to Handle Hunger Cravings {The Pumpkin Cannon Edition: Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, September 28 th, 2012The men brought the pumpkin cannon. And all the church ladies brought pie, 160 pies. We made peach. And my brother rolled out of bed in the 2 am dark to begin the pig roast under stars. ...
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moreThe Truth about Really Having it All
On Friday, September 21 st, 2012I t was after the waves. After the waves of contractions, after the waves of blow out diapers and wet nursing pads that leaked through the let downs and the damp spit blankets that piled high at the bedroom door. Long after the waves of colic at 3 am and the 4:30 am crying, both the swaddl...
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moreWhen Everything’s Pressing in a bit Too Much & You’d Just like Some Answers
On Monday, September 17 th, 2012I sat across from a woman who just kept looking up at the ceiling to keep herself from falling apart. Looked at the ceiling like she was looking for answers from somewhere on high. Looked at the ceiling and told me that she loved God and she hated God and right now was best of times and the worst of times and — that’s when she dropped her eyes hard like a gavel and ...
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moreWhat Women Need to Say to Each Other… because it’s what every woman needs to hear
On Friday, September 14 th, 2012IIt’s when you came up behind me and put your arms around me in the kitchen last night while I was making food for your Dad. The way you laid your head on my shoulder and you held me, mama in the daughter arms after all these thirteen years. I reached up and laid my hand on your cheek, and it only takes a moment and mother and a daughter aren’t far apart anymore. Yo...
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moreThe Importance of Putting the Camera Down… Just Now & Then
On Tuesday, September 11 th, 2012Summer holds on a bit and really, who can mind the clinging? When we pack up the kids and head to the woods, we drive tent pegs into the earth, and we walk in bare feet and it is right like this. ...
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moreThe Easy Plan Before Summer Ends . . . . . . {14 Things to do in the last 2 weeks}
On Friday, August 17 th, 2012Two weeks left. Two weeks of sweet corn and swimming suits and bare toes and zinnia bouquets and light like this in their hair and all the days ar...
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moreweekends are for bending for the good
On Saturday, July 28 th, 2012Creative Inspiration for the Weekend : Print out this Travel Photo Checklist – perfect for any daytripping or vacations on the summer calendar! Have you checked out these 8 Tips for Better Vacation Photos?} And oh – don’t forget to take one of these for the album (It’s never too late to begin!) Too fun! This inspires me to chronicle for our family...
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moreWhen You Need an Answer to Prayers
On Friday, July 20 th, 2012A s she swings higher at twilight, there is only quietness. Only all these quiet prayers with the sun on the nape. And the prayers, they are doing something, and it can be felt in the bones. Prayer isn’t merely talking to God — it is being transformed by God. Prayer is this moving towards God, heat of a holy fire...
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moreA Mother’s Perfect Work
On Thursday, June 14 th, 2012Seven. She wakes up this morning that number of perfection and I don’t ask where time goes when she crawls into my bed, her nose crinkled in this giddy giggling. She had told me yesterday, “Let’s all be the happiest today — because it’s the last day I’ll ever, ever be six.” And I had...
