Daily 5 - Day 95

Today's Daily 5 (and more...):

1. A walk in Nose Hill Park
2. baking a marble cake with chocolate icing (mostly because I'm having company tomorrow, but also because I felt like cake today)
3. home made pancakes for breakfast
4. finding two birthday gifts for a very affordable price while at the mall
5. discovering my favorite obscure (but really beautiful) children's Christmas story at a small local bookstore - a gift for a friend who has just recently had her first child and loves books. (here's hoping she doesn't have this one yet!)
6. a slow morning, getting out of bed a bit later than usual
7. chatting for a little while with a dear friend
8. taking a few photos again, and having them turn out not too badly
9. reading Proverbs... I've been reading this book off and on for a couple of months now, and I'm very struck by it.
10. curling up in bed with a book...
    

Experimenting with Visuals

Taste & See by lpippus featuring Tarina Tarantino jewelry

Items in this set:
Tarina Tarantino brooch
Sxc.hu
Gilek.com

Holding Onto You

I'm thinking tonight about a lyric my friend Karla Adolphe penned...

My heart is praying these words tonight, for myself and some dear friends... and hearing in the last few lines a quieting response from Jesus...

Holding Onto You

I see a million broken pieces on the floor
I can't believe you'd like to add one more
Meet me where I'm living, meet me where I am
All the stars have melted from my eyes
Only you know how many tears I've cried
Meet me where I'm living, meet me where I am
Holding onto you,
I'm holding onto you,
I'm holding onto you right now

Hush little baby don't say a word
Daddy's coming to get his little girl
Hush little baby, don't do a thing
Daddy's coming he's going to fix everything...

(to buy the song, click here, and scroll to the album "The Cathedral" to find the song)

Daily 5 - Day 94

Today's Daily 5 (and more):

1. Waking with the line "Taste and see that the Lord is good" playing through my head
2. finding just a few words for my heart space in an email to a dear friend
3. a day spent with a friend, even if the relationship has changed deeply over the last year
4. mini ham and cheese croissants from the farmer's market for breakfast
5. going into my favorite clothing store and discovering several items that I'd been planning to go to a used clothing store to look for on clearance - 2 tops and a pair of pants for about $31 - very good news for a girl on a tight budget
6. getting to see the mountains again
7. getting a particular vitamin refill that I'd been hunting for for several weeks in a row
8. making fruit salad again for the coming week
9. a quiet relaxing morning
10. a day mostly focused on remembering to taste and see that Jesus is good
    

Taste and See

I woke up this morning at 5 am with two lines of scripture running through my head. They were still running through my head when I finally got up around 9.

"Taste and see that the Lord is good."

"His love endures forever."

Today is a day where I'm experimenting with tasting and seeing. A new way of choosing joy.