I was pretty much drowning in introspection tonight, my mind running wild as I consider many changes that are on the horizon in my life - changes that are mostly positive, but are also a bit scary. (I'm infamous for my dislike of changes in things that are already established and lovely.)
A friend of mine posted this on her blog tonight (thanks LP/CA!) and oh how I needed the laugh it provided. It sort of cut through the thickness of my thoughts and let a giggle burst out. It really is amazing how joy changes things.
Friday, January 15, 2010
If Corporations Took Over Worship...
Daily 5 - Day 156
Today's Daily 5:
- Friday
- feeling pretty in some of the new clothes I bought last weekend
- wearing high heels - I don't wear them often these days, but I do feel so attractive when I do
- Jeans at work
- hanging out at walmart with my dad (needed to buy oil and an oil filter for George - my brother J. is changing the oil for me tomorrow)
- budget update, post salary change - it was fun to sort out the little bit of extra money that my recent performance review and salary change brought me. not much, but fun to ponder how to split it up.
- home made chicken and dumpling soup and theological conversation over dinner with mom and dad
- watching a healing service from Redding, California online "with" a dear friend on the other side of Canada... (she watched at her house, and I in mine, and we chatted online while we watched) nice to "spend the evening together" in that way... to "go to church together" a little.
- tears flowing. this has been an exhausting and stretching week, full of many things pulling deeply on my heart. Tears still don't flow readily for me, so I choose to appreciate the moments, however painful, that they fall for a while and offer a release to the pent-up emotions.
- I'm thankful still, for the ways I saw God work and confirm things last night at the house church gathering. It had been a very long time since I have seen that move of God to direct within a corporate body by offering pieces to various people around the room, and to be honest, I wasn't particularly expecting it in that setting, but I saw it last night, and was so grateful for that reminder of God working amidst things.
Stunning Photos
These photos and brief interview from a photo journalist at the New York times are breathtaking in their tragedy.
Incredible Solar Eclipse Photos
There was a solar eclipse visible in Africa and Asia today. Check out pictures of it here. Some of them are truly stunning.
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