Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 340

Today's Daily 5:

1. sleeping in
2. lunch with an old friend (and great conversation and food to boot!)
3. getting a group project finished for another semester
4. watching the Olympic opening ceremonies (I may or may not have streamed a good chunk of it on silent - mostly the parade of nations - during a very boring class today...)
5. a moment of quiet revelation

Friday Reflections, July 27, 2012

Today's reflection spoke to my tired and drained heart.  It's once again written by Henri Nouwen.


What We Feel Is Not Who We Are


Our emotional lives move up and down constantly.  Sometimes we experience great mood swings: from excitement to depression, from joy to sorrow, from inner harmony to inner chaos.  A little event, a word from someone, a disappointment in work, many things can trigger such mood swings.  Mostly we have little control over these changes.  It seems that they happen to us rather than being created by us.

Thus it is important to know that our emotional life is not the same as our spiritual life.  Our spiritual life is the life of the Spirit of God within us.  As we feel our emotions shift we must connect our spirits with the Spirit of God and remind ourselves that what we feel is not who we are.  We are and remain, whatever our moods, God's beloved children.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 339

Today's Daily 5:

1. a much needed haircut that looks great, at a great price
2. Sprite slurpee
3. the moment when my favorite two year old, who is usually brief in speech and only strings one or two words together was fighting his mama on taking a bite of the meat we had and as she brought the bite to his mouth suddenly hollered "whoa, whoa, whoa! Too big!"
4. drunken pork chops - oh my goodness - simplest recipe ever, but SO good
5. curling up in bed to catch up on emails before sleeping

Drawing a Blank

Y'all, this has been the kind of week that has sucked my mental capacities dry.

I'm sitting here, staring a nice blank screen, and wondering what on earth I'm going to talk about in this space today.

I've got nothing.

Nothing.

It's just been that kind of week.  Not bad, just very, very full.

It's included tasty Indian food.  And an Ikea trip. And grocery shopping.

And later nights than usual.

And so I'm drawing a blank.

I haven't had the reflective space to come up with something to write in this space.

So I'm writing about the fact that I have nothing to write.

Here's to being super thankful that the semester is almost over, and that I will have some quiet space.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Days 337 & 338

Yesterday's Daily 5:

1. a really great chance to debrief a visit with the nurse I was paired with
2. hanging out on pinterest
3. working to clean and organize my living space, making little changes to make it better until I can find something more suitable
4. steamed veggies
5. netflix

Today's Daily 5:

1. A Sunday Cup of Quiet on the bus
2. quiet space to meet with Jesus
3. starting to read "Love Does" by Bob Goff
4. having an afternoon of freedom to catch up on a few things
5. crawling into bed nice and early after a low key evening
6. wireless internet
7. supper that consisted of herbal tea and slices of toast
8. clean drinking water
9. a natural, homemade trap for fruit flies that works
10. knocking a major school to do off my list