Daily 5 - Day 4

Today's daily 5 moments of joy etc.:

1. a fantastic and challenging sermon at church tonight
2. seeing a movie solo this afternoon
3. a day that felt quite peaceful for the first time in a while
4. plans to spend the next hour or so curled up in bed, writing a piece that's been stirring in my heart for several days
5. leftover vietnamese food for dinner
   

Couldn't Pass This Up (Church Signs)

I'll admit to being alternately mildly amused or mostly disgusted by the trend that has emerged in recent years for churches to put attempts at pithy humor on their signboards. (Has anyone ever actually visited a church because the sign read "God answers knee-mail"?)

In any case, as I was driving home tonight, I did a double take and began laughing out loud. May I recommend checking your spelling if you're trying to post wisdom on your church sign board for the world to read. There was a high degree of humorous irony when I read the following on a church sign board near my home:

God is perfect. People make misteaks.

I mean, you see these things on the internet from time to time, but it was just too funny to see this one in person. I'm debating going back tomorrow and taking a photo!

Saturday Mid-day

I'm having a fairly restful and peaceful Saturday. Sort of a nice change of pace actually.

I've done some errands (and have more to do).

I went and got a massage (so thankful for insurance coverage!)

I saw a movie solo.

And now, I think I'm going to take a nap. I made it home and my energy is waning. I'm hoping to go to church tonight, but right now, I think I need to sleep.

Daily 5 - Day 3

Today was officially nuts.

For the first time I've brought work home with me. Nothing too major, but a process and procedure that definitely needs to be rewritten before I have to rely on it on Monday morning.

I followed work up with a work related errand (and another one to come tomorrow), a stop at a bookstore (yep, came away with purchases, what else is new!), a quick grocery trip, and then an evening at my parent's house, letting my mom feed and love on me, and watching a movie together.

But, there were some great moments, so, without further ado, and before I head off to journal and hopefully sleep, here's today's daily 5:

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1. Listening to the same song (Jesus Lover of My Soul: It's all About You) on repeat for my entire commute this morning, and letting it resonate in my heart.
2. Watching "Chariots of Fire" with mom (and dad at times) and being challenged again by the depth conviction of Eric Liddell, and moved by the music (and remembering the first synchro duet my partner and I ever choreographed and self-coached, performed to music from "Chariots of Fire")
3. A few blackberries snitched from the fresh ones mom bought at the farmer's market today, and mom being willing to make popcorn (a favorite snack of our family, consumed in enormous quantities) at my request, because it had been quite some time since I'd had good homemade salted and buttered popcorn.
   
4. Wearing jeans to work.
5. Waking up this morning and feeling like sleep had brought a bit of rest.
   

Yikes.

If yesterday was a bit of a "holy cannoli" exclamation day, today is triply so.

I cannot believe the number of things that have come my way this morning. I can't believe it's noon and I'm just now sitting down at my own desk after being involved in several other projects all morning. And I cannot believe the number of things left to do this afternoon. For one of the first times in the history of my employment I may be taking a bit of work home with me this weekend. It's fairly important that I spend a bit of time to re-order and re-vamp the new hire orientation, since it didn't work incredibly smoothly the last time I did it, and we have another new-hire coming in on Monday morning and requiring orientation.

I have a bunch of thoughts stirring and brewing to write some posts later today or over the weekend. And a few more quotes to share as well.