Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 98

Today's Daily 5:

1. Sleeping late
2. Lazy morning
3. coffee this afternoon with a friend
4. shoveling snow - not an all time favorite activity, but one that helped today
5. letting tears fall
6. mugs of tea
7. mini almond joy bars
8. praying friends

Live/Write

I came across this blog post by Rachel Held Evans late last night.

Quite the title - striving to live the way we strive to write.

These are the lines that struck me:

forgiving myself for crappy first drafts,
allowing trusted experts to make edits,
running into my fears rather than running away from them,
counting goof-ups as  “material,”
making art out of imperfection

All points that I'll need to spend some time considering.

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 97

I had planned to write a post of one sort or another today, but between an appointment, exhaustion, the weather, and doing errands, it didn't happen.  So.  A daily 5 is all it will be today.

Today's Daily 5:

1.  Starting the day with a long shower
2. sleeping late
3. watching some of my favorite television shows online
4. smiling when I spotted "leftover" snow angels on someone's lawn
5. the sun finally peeking out (even if sunny days at this time of year actually tend to be colder!)
6. a good appointment
7. brownies
8. a plum
9. the smell of clean laundry
10. buying boots that should work for winter footwear
11. the smell of all-protector spray on new shoes
12. comfort food for supper
13. mindless television
14. being wrapped up in a thick blanket
15. a big glass of water

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 96

Today's Daily 5:

1. looking at photos from the travels of friends
2. waking to find an email from L. in the UK waiting for me
3. people who actually take the time to shovel their sidewalks
4. a bus driver who actually cranked the heat
5. laughter with coworkers
6. Korean BBQ for dinner with my friend J
7. peanut M & M's
8. watching the movie "Morning Glory" and laughing hard throughout.

Let it Drive You to God

2 Corinthians 7:9-11 (The Message)

"Now I’m glad—not that you were upset, but that you were jarred into turning things around. You let the distress bring you to God, not drive you from him. The result was all gain, no loss. Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets. And now, isn’t it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You’re more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you’ve come out of this with purity of heart."