Yes, it’s February, and I’m just now getting around to sharing my words for this year. And that’s okay. Because the subtitle for my words could be this phrase: There are no deadlines. That is a mantra I’ve been repeating to myself and as many other people as I can. January 1st wasn’t a deadline; […]
Feelings and Work: Finding Balance with Compassion
Welcome back to From the Journal Fridays, where I share thoughts from my large collection of journals and notebooks. Today, let’s talk about finding balance between our feelings & work in compassion. Yes, this is the exact same journal from last week. Except it’s not. I’m a creature of habit. I had 3 of these […]
From Hard Emotions to Hard Work
This journal was one of my work journals from the time I spent in India. It holds notes for re-writing and teaching a curriculum that taught women their worth and value to God. It is a journal that I hold dear, because of all the hard work it represents. Hard work when I didn’t feel […]
For the Benefit of All
I searched through this journal to try and find something to copy here, but instead, the verse on the outside spoke more to me and to where we all are right now, in this season of unlearning and relearning, being honest about our own biases and prejudice, and beginning to run a marathon of justice […]
A Life of Freedom
Another round of #fromthejournalfridays shocked me as I opened this journal to find … almost all blank pages. I used to be notorious about leaving journals or devotionals half-done. This journal started out as a place to read through Exodus with a friend, and I just stopped writing about each chapter at some point. One […]
Let Light Shine
This week’s #fromthejournalfridays takes us to one of my first journals where I wrote about the Bible. I am very different from the fresh-out-of-high-school girl that I was in 2009, but creating a habit of just being in the word was (and is) important to me, so I’m thankful for these words I poured over […]