Daily 5 - Day 126

Today's Daily 5:

1. Another batch of cookies baked
2. Getting through a particularly challenging day
3. thankful for deep prayerful spaces, even the particularly painful ones
4. thankful for a shift to somewhat warmer weather
5. thankful for a quiet (if at times hard) evening at home.
   

Advent Prayer

I loved the Advent prayer that Ian posted this morning.

You can find it here.

Juxtaposed

I'm experiencing a sharp juxtaposition today.

My heart is elsewhere, praying for some friends.

My body is at work. Our receptionist is out sick today, meaning I'm responsible for the work of two different positions for this day. It's been a little bit crazy already.

And I'm not feeling well to boot. Quite ill actually.

My body and heart are in different places today.

Juxtaposed.

The Lord Cares Deeply

Psalm 116:15 NLT "The Lord cares deeply when his loved ones die."

And they are all his loved ones.

Praying this for many around me tonight, and some specifically.

Daily 5 - Day 125

Today's Daily 5:

1. I'm thankful I did my errands at lunch, even if they were a bit rushed, instead of after work, since I drove today, and traffic was quite bad again.
2. I'm thankful that the weather is warming up
3. listening to Misty Edwards again lately, and being deeply moved by it
   
4. mixing up a triple batch of sugar cookie dough. First type of cookies baked tonight, dough stored in the fridge, more to come in coming days
5. I was thankful to do yoga after work tonight. I've been getting my 20+ minutes of exercise in the last little while by doing a lot of walking (added bonus of taking the train - get the workout for the day in). But I've missed the yoga, and how much better my muscles feel after stretching them out.
6. I was thankful that I didn't have to make dinner, but still got to eat a delicious meal.
7. working on Philippians memorization in the car this morning
8. lots of quiet moments today, pausing to pray
9. having the supplies to finish making all but one Christmas present... that last one is stumping me... not sure what to do about it yet.
10. sorting through my budget, and realizing that even though things will be tight these next couple weeks, I'm going to get through Christmas for the first time in quite a while without accruing debt that would need to be paid off.