A Letter to Women's Ministries Everywhere

Yesterday I read this beautiful post at Emerging Mummy.

You MUST go read it, and then come tell me what you think.

Let's talk about this - about building a church community of women (or men, but the context of the post is women) that loves, sharpens and challenges each other.  Let's talk about building a community that is full of depth and grace and joy.  That is the place we come when we need to wrestle, and the place we come to celebrate.  Not just the place for safe conversation and coffee cake.

I've been blessed to find a small house church community that has embodied this sort of place for me, and I'm curious about all of you - do you have this sort of place where you are both loved and sharpened?  I'd like to hear about it if you do, and to hear about your search for it, or thoughts about it if you don't.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 46

Today's Daily 5:

1. A tiny grin on being spotted
2. flowers from my "date" for the morning
3. a return to the zoo for the first time in a few months
4. A child's wonder over puddles, fish pools, trains and airplanes
5. lunch with a friend
6. Chinese dumplings
7. a hot bath with a book
8. taking an early evening nap
9. catching up on email
10. marking a few things off my list for the weekend

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 45

Today's Daily 5:

1. jeans at work
2. banana muffins
3. string cheese
4. working through lunch and starting the weekend an hour early instead
5. dinner and chatting and shopping with a friend

New Rhythms

Even as I title this post, I know that I don't have time to do the topic justice.  That the new rhythms of my life demand that I turn my lights out very shortly, and sleep, rather than staying up into the wee hours I've always loved, and spending time writing.

So maybe I will leave it here:  September has been a month of discovering new rhythms for me.  Of juggling, and failing, and trying again, and slowly the pieces are coming together.

I'll share more about that soon, as things continue to change and settle into place.

In the meantime, share with me some of the important rhythms of your days and weeks?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 44

Today's Daily 5:

1. Leftover curry for lunch
2. peppermint gum (keep in mind that I believe mint flavoring should only occur in gum and toothpaste)
3. one of those days where I just felt good in my own skin
4. the first time wearing a new scarf
5. the laughter of sharing life and walking through scripture at house church