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Showing posts with label 365 in 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 365 in 2015. Show all posts

01 January 2016

thinking in type...

Starting anew in 2016...

more reading: this list from Challies.com. I'd like to get past Light and past Avid to Committed, but let's be honest, there's little chance of making it to Obsessed.

more Scripture memory: it's a discipline that I've added to my morning routine over the last couple years, and I want to continue in it. I've memorized complete chapters of Scripture, but never an entire book. Yet. (want some encouragement as to why? How 'bout this? or this?) ScriptureTyper has been a great help to me and my girls. But best of all is a partner to be held accountable with...

more photos: I was gifted a ReallyNeatLens for Christmas, and I am newly inspired. It's so easy to take pictures with my phone, but I am remembering how much I enjoy my camera, too.

more running: I logged just over 400 miles in 2015, but fell off the wagon in the last quarter of the year. I'm getting my shuffle back on.

less social media: I love aspects of being connected to far-away friends and family. But my OCD characteristics become too much so. And Panda Pop... (sheepish guilty grin)

less...?: 2015 was full, too full, I think. The hardest part is that there's nothing that stands out as "No more of this..." How to choose what to do less of?

Praying for wisdom and that "the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope" (Romans 15:13) as this new chapter begins...

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a sweet finish to a very full year.

But if there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

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almost ready.

29 December 2015

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thankful for this house-full.

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the kind of day we wait for, sunny and bright and cool and clear and a hoody feels just right, AND the sunflowers are still in bloom in December.

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"Always winter and never Christmas; 
think of that!"
"How awful!" said Lucy.


from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

26 December 2015

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DPP25- "I praise you, Jesus, that YOU are the long-time-promised and much-longed-for-Christ--- the Messiah. We're to look for no other, for in you every promise of God finds its fulfillment, it's unequivocal "Yes!"
- "A Prayer About Jesus," in Everyday Prayers by Scotty Smith

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dpp 24- fresh cranberry sauce

24 December 2015

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DPP23- in my 'hood on the way home from grocery shopping...

My prayer for this particular Advent season is quite simple, Lord Jesus. Please reveal moreand more of your glory and grace to my heart… that I might bow quicker and lower before, you, my majestic and merciful King. Open the eyes of my heart a bit wider to behold the astonishing hope to which you have called me in the gospel. Deepen my adoration of you, Lord Jesus… and loosen my grip on my so-called treasures. So very Amen, I pray, in your most wise and worthy name.
- "A Prayer About Christmas Wisdom" by Scotty Smith

23 December 2015

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DPP22- and on this day, finally, everything slowed down.

22 December 2015

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DPP21- and on the fourth day before Christmas, the family said, "let there be light." And the mom saw it and it was good.

21 December 2015

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DPP20- making the post-caroling hot chocolate.

20 December 2015

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DPP19- It was a beautiful morning, but the message of the cross of Christ even more so...

19 December 2015

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DPP18- the Christmas program at Instituto Isaias 55, the school for the deaf in Reynosa, MX. My heart is full.

18 December 2015

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DPP17- our evening Advent devotional reading.

"As it turns out, the point of Christmas isn’t to make it perfect. It’s that we deeply need Christ’s redemption, so that even the weary world can rejoice. Jesus sees our brokenness, and He comes to redeem us, bind up every wound, and wipe away every tear. Thanks be to God!"
- from SheReadsTruth, "Jesus Is The Better Boaz," by Rebecca Faires

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DPP16- I think that maybe my lunch was better than yours...

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DPP15- 1030pm and I have not taken one single photo today and OH LOOK! my girls are playing a game!

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DPP14- The day we've been waiting on! I showed great restraint and only took two...

14 December 2015

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DPP13- Christmas tree re-lit and re-decorated.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel. 
- "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," Thomas Helmore, 1851.

13 December 2015

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DPP12- the kitchen elves were busy today.