Simply Awesome Tuesday!
As you can
tell, I live in Belgium. Sounds fancy, right? It could be but that's not our
style - we're down to earth, regular folks who have moved so often we sometimes
can't remember where we are! Today started out at o'dark thirty because we were
all heading on the drive to school/work/car maintenance and then on our way to
Germany. Adulting can be hard and I sure love that term that has found its way
to our lips. Getting up when it's still dark and taking care of a home's last
minute needs is necessary but not fun - especially before caffeine! We left
later than we should have and ran into traffic and delays and crazy drivers but
finally the day is under way.
It's Tuesday
and it is the first day of the book club for Simply Tuesday. I found this book when searching for books for our
daughter to encourage her and enrich her life in the big city (a half empty nest
isn't awesome by the way). Of course, I also found some books that I NEEDED
because books are something that I can't resist as you would see from our
overflowing bookshelves and my Kindle library. When I read the description for
this book, I knew it was for me.
In
Simply Tuesday, Emily P. Freeman shows you how to:
embrace
today's work
find
contentment in the now
replace
competition with connection
learn
to breathe in a breathless world
Emily writes that the
kingdom of God "doesn't look like I thought it would or think it should,
but there it is, hiding under the piles of everyday life, God is where he
always said he would be -- in the whisper, in the shadows, in the seed."
When you look at it through her eyes, then you know that God is in the small
stuff every step of the way with us. So if we really want to live a faithful
life, then we need to really live those little moments and make the most of
them for and with God.
The events in the news
are also part of our everyday life and social media tends to focus on these
events with a harsh light. Why not take the chance to use these events as more
opportunities to pray and to lift those up who are being affected by them. The
recent shootings at the Oregon campus and the flooding in the South of France
and also South Carolina inspired this thought together with fellow Clumsy Blogger's
appeal when finding emergency vehicles at schools and a college in her
neighborhood. I've found that so many people are investing their time in
commenting in rants on people's posts when they could be spending their time in
a more positive way. So I'll do my part -- because that's all we all can do -
we can't control others but we sure can do our best to live each moment with
faith and hope.
Now I need to read the
rest of the assignment before today's Periscope session - and I finally joined
Periscope because I am a creature of curiosity but am not brave enough yet to
actually do one myself!
Happy
Simply Awesome Tuesday!
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