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Tidings of Comfort and Joy+

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 Not many days left now until Christmas 2012!  Celebrating Christ's birth is one of my very favorite engagements of each year.  At present our world pines for the comfort, joy, peace and

White Space

What do you do to keep and/or to create "white space" in your life?

You know what I mean by white space, right?  Maybe not...

Noble November

 November is definitely one of my favorite months for many reasons.  I love that the weather is

On earth as it is in Heaven?

What can I do in 10 minutes?  Inspired by two of my daughters who recently participated in a NaNoWriMo Write-In, I decided to write.

"I am on vacation" is heard around our house on days like today; being translated, it means that all of my school work is finished, and I am officially in non-school mode.  At present I believe that I am on vacation, though I have one student still working.  After lunch I will bake pies, knead up a batch of 100% whole wheat dinner roll dough, and make cranberry sauce in preparation for tomorrow.  In the betweens, I am pressing into rest and mentally transitioning to non-school mode.

What appeared to be an "empty" month, according to our over-sized dry erasable wall calendar, is almost at its close.  Because I love this time of year so very much, the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays, I have peace in regard to where we are in the 2012 year.  We have much on our "to do" lists for the Thanksgiving vacation, including decorating the tree and inside of the house for Christmas, drawing names for gift exchange, scoring an acceptable family picture for our Christmas cards and spending time together as a family being thankful for each other and for our enumerable blessings.

Resting and loving authentically are two themes which Holy Spirit is highlighting in this season.  Both are challenging for me due in large part, in my opinion, to the day-to-day demands of this life I've been blessed to live.  And it is exactly in the day-to-day where I long to wear rest and love as naturally and as effortlessly as my skin.  I wonder if that day will ever arrive here on the earth?

Yes, there will be joy in this journey!

Trying to remember to seek first the unseen Kingdom...



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