Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 243

Today's Daily 5:

1. 7 years of blogging
2. sitting in a sun drenched car, reading a book while I waited for someone
3. breakfast at a great local place, with a good friend, and talking nursing and nursing school
4. the news that a friend had given birth to her second daughter
5. getting voting in the provincial election out of the way by going to the advance polls, effectively giving me a day off on Monday.

7 Years Old

Today marks my 7th anniversary of blogging.

I still can't quite believe that something I signed up for as a whim has become an integral part of my life.

A friend was doing tsunami relief overseas, and I wanted to comment on his posts, but couldn't without an account of my own.  On a whim I decided that blogging might be fun, and I've been writing in this space ever since.

Crazy.

I've flown to a different country to meet someone because of my blog.  I've hugged the necks of several different people that I had never met in person before they showed up to meet me in a coffee shop.  I've skyped with others, and facebooked or emailed with still others.  I've made friends.

There has been a little community of friends and readers all over the world that has collected in this space, and it still astonishes me that anyone at all cares what I have to say in this space, much less wants to talk back!

This has been an outlet for healing, and sometimes it's been a place I hid from.  But mostly it's been the space that's mine.  One of the spaces where I can be the most "me" of anywhere in my life.  And that's what I love about it.

7 years.

Crazy.

I've been hearing that blogging is dead, but I'm pretty sure I'm just getting started!

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 242

Today's Daily 5:

1. Sleeping in
2. a walk in the sun and wind
3. doing errands on foot
4. writing cards for some good friends, and mailing them
5. accomplishing several tasks that had lingered over the last month of busyness

Friday Reflections - April 20, 2012

I don't have any quotes for you today, just the knowledge that I'm quietly recognizing that 24 years ago today, I knelt on the dark brown shag carpet, next to the itchy brown loveseat in my parents' living room at the time, and invited Jesus "into my heart".

My life changed that day.

It changes still.

Jesus does that, it seems.

He's gentle, not forceful, but he brings change.

Sometimes the change doesn't feel gentle.  Sometimes the change isn't gentle.

Sometimes gentle and forceful aren't mutually exclusive.

My walk with Jesus for the last 24 years has been like that, and today I'm stopping to acknowledge that moment when the changes began in earnest.  The moment when joy was mine in fullness for the first time.

I'm thank that fullness of joy can still be mine today.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 241

Today's Daily 5:

1. Shopping with a friend and her 2 boys (2 years old and 3 weeks old)
2. lace shoes - bought some new shoes made of a lace fabric last week, and I LOVE the way they look.
3. about 2 hours with the 3 week old baby in a sling as we walked around shopping
4. greek food for lunch
5. finding a new coat that will fit both my needs and desires for spring/summer
6. being at a stage where therapy is less scary and more enlightening
7. cookies
8. getting a bit of an extra walk in
9. house church with friends I love
10. a day with lots and lots of laughter