Much to fill the day and by the time I sit down to blog my brain goes into neutral and I fall asleep in minutes. Mid afternoon isn't my usual time to take a seat and write out my sojourning thoughts here, but the kids are sitting down to do worksheets from the reading comprehension… Continue reading Confetti Post
Category: endurance
Oh for Stick-to-itiveness and Courage
There's a paragraph in A Long Obedience In The Same Direction by Eugene Peterson (which I have been away from for awhile, and came back to yesterday) where he talks about the not-so-fancy word: stick-to-it-iveness. He says his mom used to scold him for not possessing stick-to-itevness. He would leave various unfinished endeavors laying around… Continue reading Oh for Stick-to-itiveness and Courage
Got power?
Committing Colossians to my heart, this struck me:...being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father... Colossians 1:11-12aWe Christ-clinging ones, we have heard and believed and desire to live a life worthy of the Lord, though we know… Continue reading Got power?
Pressing on
(A frittata I made this week)This has been a long week. Back to getting up at five. That's actually about the only thing I went back to this week. I didn't go back to eating the same way I've been eating. I didn't go back to not exercising consistently. I didn't go back to Worn. … Continue reading Pressing on