Daily 5 - Year 3, Days 298, 299 & 300

Day 298 (Friday's Daily 5):

1. a day off school since my one class of the day conflicted with the rehearsal dinner for my brother's wedding
2. buying an awesome (and super cute) pair of shoes to wear with my dress for the wedding
3. taking the day just a bit slow
4. mango diablo tea from David's Tea
5. an awesome meal and lots of laughs at the rehearsal dinner

Day 299 (Saturday's Daily 5):

1. getting my hair and makeup done for a very affordable rate at a local beauty college
2. the "flower man"
3. my brother's face as he caught sight of his bride entering the sanctuary
4. all of the emotions - watching my mom cry next to me, and dad choke up and preach through tears as he performed the wedding ceremony
5. lots of laughter, and watching as my brother, his new wife, and their friends celebrated in a way that was perfectly suited to who they are

Day 300 (Today's Daily 5):

1. an unplanned sleep-in until noon (of course, I didn't get to bed until around 3am so...)
2. a mini father's day celebration (the big one will be after J&R get home from their Italian honeymoon)
3. coming home to my own space
4. an afternoon of awesome quiet, moving slowly through a to do list
5. a bouquet of flowers, and other bits (little pots of moss, mostly) from some wedding centerpieces that are now part of the decor of my room and are adding a bit of green and life to my rather dark basement abode.

Friday Reflections - June 15, 2012

Today's reflection is written by Richard Rohr and struck me as deeply true and profound when it arrived in my inbox yesterday.  I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topic he writes about.


EUCHARIST AS TOUCHSTONE

Christ is the bread, awaiting hunger. 
~ St. Augustine


Eucharist is presence encountering presence—mutuality, vulnerability. There is nothing to prove, to protect, or to sell. It feels so empty, naked, and harmless, that all you can do is be present.


The Eucharist is telling us that God is the food and all we have to do is provide the hunger. Somehow we have to make sure that each day we are hungry, that there’s room inside of us for another presence. If you are filled with your own opinions, ideas, righteousness, superiority, or sufficiency, you are a world unto yourself and there is no room for “another.” Despite all our attempts to define who is worthy and who is not worthy to receive communion, our only ticket or prerequisite for coming to Eucharist is hunger. And most often sinners are much more hungry than the “saints.”


Adapted from Eucharist as Touchstone


Prayer:
Eucharisteo. I give thanks.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 297

Today's Daily 5:

1. peppermint gum
2. half-day of classes
3. a productive afternoon
4. baby cuddles from J. and toddler games and cuddles with M.
5. hanging out with house church friends

Thursday To Do's

I only have a half day of classes on Thursday's this semester, so those classes are the beginning of my to do list for today.  The rest of the list looks something like this:

• group of four meeting for next week's praxis teaching
• group of two meeting for evidence based paper
• finish preparing for house church leading
• assemble ceremony programs for my brother's wedding
• take the garbage out
• wrap a wedding gift
• wrap a father's day gift
• prep some blog posts
• reply to a few emails
• tackle some cleaning tasks
• a few various and sundry other tasks

It's a lot, but I do love having a list and moving through it, so hopefully I'll get quite a bit of this one accomplished.  I do have a good chunk of Friday also available to me, but there continues to be a need to carve out some time for quiet rest, and a need to tackle copious amounts of homework, so those things need to be taken into consideration as well.

What are your plans for the day?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 296

Today's Daily 5:

1. the smell of the air after rain
2. being a regular at certain places, and being addressed by name when I arrive
3. The Message translation
4. days where I can wear flip flops because they fit both weather and dress code requirements
5. a fun coffee with an acquaintance