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I still do it. Get up every morning and try to pray my way to a perfect day. Pray my way to a life completely free of struggle, need, and the anxiety it produces. Does it ever work? No. Will it ever work? No. This morning, just after I completed yet another pointless prayer . . . → Read More: We Need Struggle & Need? When I was teaching I never raised my voice in the classroom unless I did it with intention. It was always preplanned and what I was going to say was well thought out. It comes from a place of love and results in teaching the children something valuable. A teacher raising her voice as an . . . → Read More: With Intention Even on Easter, when God has his own big thing to celebrate today, he continues to care enough about my meager life and place yet another piece of his current theme for my days in my path. So far he's spoken to me on the topic of not giving up through books, music, meditation, and . . . → Read More: Even On Easter My Lucado words of wisdom this morning were: “The God of surprises strikes again. It’s as if he said, “They can’t wait any longer. They came this far to see me; I’m going to drop in on them.” God does that for the faithful. Just when the womb gets too old for babies, Sari gets . . . → Read More: He Still Moves Stones I learned something very important today. I learned the difference between not giving up and not giving up. No, they are not the same. One comes from fear and one comes from love. If you’re not giving up out of fear it: Always feels bad Motivates grasping Seizes control Insists on certainty Needs everything . . . → Read More: Fear or Love? Well, that just about covers it all, doesn’t it? After writing that title I had to laugh at the amazing numbers of categories I had to check for this blog. The combination is a bit weird, but who am I to question when the universe moves and speaks? Sometimes I’m sent a variety of . . . → Read More: Jason Mraz, Bikram, & Mockingjay  Comments are closed  Books, Current Affairs, Family, Film, Health and Fitness, Life in General, Music, Spirituality Last night’s yoga class was extremely hard for me because I was severely dehydrated from my weekend. In all the hustle n’ bustle of moving my daughter I was not conscientious of the amount of water I did not drink. Knowing I was going to have the same teacher today and was once again going . . . → Read More: Inside & Out This weekend was spent moving our Boston daughter into a new apartment. Last night, after being bent over an Ikea bed for four hours, I decided to stay the night because we still had a desk to assemble. I drove back today went to night yoga, dragging a bruised and broken body into the studio . . . → Read More: From Our Children, We Learn It’s exactly 1:47 am and I am the only one awake, huddled in my bed, electric blanket keeping me warm, the TV quietly humming HGTV, and I am so engrossed in Mockingjay that I just can’t put it down and go to sleep. Never mind that I have to be up at 6am, on my . . . → Read More: If Anyone Could See Me Now… This week a huge black fan appeared on the back wall of the yoga studio. On the first day the teacher turned it on and the sound of a jet engine approaching, but never landing, unnerved me. She turned it on and off a few times and I just shook it off as an annoyance . . . → Read More: The “Fan” – Am I A Fan? |
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