Funny how as soon as I start keeping my daily gratitude affirmations publicly–I stopped. Gosh life has just seemed busy–you? So let’s get caught up tonight. This edition of my daily gratitude affirmations includes family picture time.
Book Club Time: Called to Life Part 2
God’s Word, transmitted by Holy Scripture, is a fundamental means by which he calls us and communicates the gift of his life. Fundamental and yet for so long I never cracked my Bible. And sometimes still, when life is going on with relatively minor bumps, I sometimes forget or get too busy to spend that necessary time with God. Ouch! That was hard to admit.
12.7.14 Daybook Online Journal
Welcome to my weekly posting of my Daybook Online Journal. This is a weekly post to help me remember the small details of my large life.
Book Club Time: Called to Life
I was recently asked for a couple of book recommendations and after the Bible, The 4:8 Principle and Searching for and Maintaining Peace, I mentioned Called to Life. I had forgotten how much I gleaned from this book until it came to my mind the other day. So, Called to Life is the next book I want to share with you in Book Club Time. Direct quotes are in bold and my notes follow.
“Live! I want you to live! (Ezekiel 16:6) Here is the first and most fundamental call to us from God. When life seems too hard to bear we must hold tight to this word, will to respond to the call, choose to live and welcome life as it is, with all its burdens and sorrows. In the end, this confident acceptance will bring us to see life as an immense gift.
My Daily Gratitude Affirmations: First Deer
In a post I wrote, Daily Affirmations for Self Esteem, I shared the definition for an affirmation: “An affirmation is defined as the truth of something. So our daily affirmations are the daily defined truths about ourselves.” My daily gratitude affirmations will serve as the truth in my life; a life that can get cloudy in sticky floors, wet dogs, tired toddlers, cranky teens and stressed husbands. Suddenly, the beauty of the truth gets mixed up with the messy of the hard. Keeping a list of blessings, of gratitude for the truth in my life, helps me to see past the struggles of the day and focus on the good–on God’s goodness and love in my life.
My Daily Gratitude Affirmations–2
In a post I wrote, Daily Affirmations for Self Esteem, I shared the definition for an affirmation: “An affirmation is defined as the truth of something. So our daily affirmations are the daily defined truths about ourselves.” My daily gratitude affirmations will serve as the truth in my life; a life that can get cloudy in sticky floors, wet dogs, tired toddlers, cranky teens and stressed husbands. Suddenly, the beauty of the truth gets mixed up with the messy of the hard.