- listening to a podcast of Rob Bell preaching on my ipod on the bus to work this morning
- surprise deals that let me accomplish some Christmas shopping
- grapes
- a tasty cocktail with dinner
- Indian food with my brother and his girlfriend
- a long hot shower
- curling up to watch some favorite television
- Grey's Anatomy - seriously still loving both it and Private Practice
- that when I caught my leg on a sharp stump from a broken off sapling last night, I walked away with only a scratch, and nothing more gory
- settling in to house sit for a week for my folks again
Friday, October 14, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 59
Today's Daily 5:
Dear Extraordinary Girl...
This email from Brave Girls Club showed up in my inbox late Tuesday evening, containing a message I very much needed to hear this week. And so, since this is my space, I'm sharing it here as well:
Dear Extraordinary Girl,
The path to the best places for us sometimes must take a trip through the muck to get to the other side of it. Sometimes that truly is the only way.
When we are in the middle of it, it feels senseless and like such a complete waste of time (let alone not very comfortable)When we are in painful places in life, or even just annoyingly uncomfortable places, it's important to remember that we are headed somewhere else if we want to be.
We do not have to stay stuck there. Sometimes it takes a while to work our way out of it, and sometimes we don't know how we got there in the first place, but mucky yucky places on the path of life are always temporary if we are willing to work our way out of them.
We are not meant to stay stuck. We are not meant to be stagnant. We are not meant to be in pain for any longer than it is necessary to teach us. We are meant to shine, to fly and to have joy. Even when we are in a place where it's nearly impossible to do this, there is always a way out of that mucky place. It is always temporary.
Please believe this, beautiful friend.
If you are in a mucky spot, just keep going, keep going 'til you get to the other side of it. It will be SO worth it.
Don't you dare give up now.
You are so loved.
xoxo
A message from your friends at the Brave Girls Club - www.bravegirlsclub.com
Dear Extraordinary Girl,
The path to the best places for us sometimes must take a trip through the muck to get to the other side of it. Sometimes that truly is the only way.
When we are in the middle of it, it feels senseless and like such a complete waste of time (let alone not very comfortable)When we are in painful places in life, or even just annoyingly uncomfortable places, it's important to remember that we are headed somewhere else if we want to be.
We do not have to stay stuck there. Sometimes it takes a while to work our way out of it, and sometimes we don't know how we got there in the first place, but mucky yucky places on the path of life are always temporary if we are willing to work our way out of them.
We are not meant to stay stuck. We are not meant to be stagnant. We are not meant to be in pain for any longer than it is necessary to teach us. We are meant to shine, to fly and to have joy. Even when we are in a place where it's nearly impossible to do this, there is always a way out of that mucky place. It is always temporary.
Please believe this, beautiful friend.
If you are in a mucky spot, just keep going, keep going 'til you get to the other side of it. It will be SO worth it.
Don't you dare give up now.
You are so loved.
xoxo
A message from your friends at the Brave Girls Club - www.bravegirlsclub.com
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