- Luke 8
- Feeling like something lifted overnight. Feeling hope rising again.
- Oatmeal for breakfast
- A friend and co-worker who knows how a rough a time I've had these last few weeks brought me a bouquet of a dozen pink roses at work this morning.
- Macdonalds for supper. No mocking me. Sometimes I just enjoy a really unhealthy meal. And tonight I did.
- Loving the newest book I'm reading - "I am Hutterite." As books that I'm reviewing for booksneeze.com go, this one is way more readable and engaging (at least for me) than "The Hole in our Gospel." (which, incidentally, I heard this week, won a "Christian book of the year" prize, so maybe I was the only one who didn't think it was all that great.)
- House Church tonight was fabulous. It was so great to be surrounded by friends, to pray for and with them, and be prayed for.
- Still loving the iphone
- I have an upcoming opportunity to escape Grandma's for a couple weeks and house sit. Still waiting on the details, but delighted by the timing.
- Tomorrow is Friday!
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Daily 5 - Day 266
Today's Daily 5:
Look What Appeared in My Office This Morning!
A friend and coworker brought me this bouquet of roses to cheer me up amidst the rough week I've been having. I love them! (I loved the hug that came with them too!)
Good Stuff - Thursday Edition
Are you a slacktivist? at Donald Miller's blog raises some good questions.
I liked this Q & A with former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, about the mental health crisis in America.
I liked this Q & A with former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, about the mental health crisis in America.
Hope Rising
I don't know what it is yet, or how to explain it, but it feels like something shifted overnight.
Maybe it was just spending the evening with my parents, doing normal things. Making a new recipe. Chatting with them about their vacation. Buying groceries with mom. Getting a hug. There's something about a hug from mom that just makes the world seem better.
Maybe it was rediscovering all over again some favorite lines of Scripture, as I worked through the daily readings I'm doing right now on the train. (Hello, beauty of an iphone - don't have to cart a Bible with me.) Lines like, "Pay attention to how you hear..." and "When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden..."
Maybe it was a relatively okay sleep for a change.
Maybe my meds are finally kicking in and balancing things out again.
Maybe it was knowing that I can get a ride home from house church tonight, and the reassurance that gives me for all the weeks to come, in the days of not having a car.
Maybe it's the roses that a coworker and friend who knew how rough the last few weeks have been, showed up with as a gift for me this morning.
Maybe it's returning to the routine of oatmeal for breakfast, in my office. And taking vitamins that definitely help my mood management too. Especially since I forgot those same vitatmins at home yesterday.
Maybe it was laughing at childhood pictures of my brother and his soon to be wife. Pictures that I brought with me today to scan and use in the slideshow I'm preparing for their wedding.
Maybe it was some combination of all of those things.
Whatever it is, hope is rising. And that is the most hopeful feeling of all.
Maybe it was just spending the evening with my parents, doing normal things. Making a new recipe. Chatting with them about their vacation. Buying groceries with mom. Getting a hug. There's something about a hug from mom that just makes the world seem better.
Maybe it was rediscovering all over again some favorite lines of Scripture, as I worked through the daily readings I'm doing right now on the train. (Hello, beauty of an iphone - don't have to cart a Bible with me.) Lines like, "Pay attention to how you hear..." and "When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden..."
Maybe it was a relatively okay sleep for a change.
Maybe my meds are finally kicking in and balancing things out again.
Maybe it was knowing that I can get a ride home from house church tonight, and the reassurance that gives me for all the weeks to come, in the days of not having a car.
Maybe it's the roses that a coworker and friend who knew how rough the last few weeks have been, showed up with as a gift for me this morning.
Maybe it's returning to the routine of oatmeal for breakfast, in my office. And taking vitamins that definitely help my mood management too. Especially since I forgot those same vitatmins at home yesterday.
Maybe it was laughing at childhood pictures of my brother and his soon to be wife. Pictures that I brought with me today to scan and use in the slideshow I'm preparing for their wedding.
Maybe it was some combination of all of those things.
Whatever it is, hope is rising. And that is the most hopeful feeling of all.
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