Welcome to my weekly Sunday post, Daybook Online Journal. This is a post where I gather all the ordinary things that happen or are happening in my day to day. Things like what I’m reading or listening to…eating and cleaning and learning…These are the small moments that make up my blessed daily life; and I want to remember them. If you blog, please link up below with your Daybook Online Journal post. If you don’t have a blog, no worries, just leave your “post” in the comments. You can use my prompts or make up your own to include items important to you; mine change depending on season and circumstance.
Daybook Online Journal: Lent Begins
Thanking God for…
::a warm house when the cold wind blows
::children who work hard hauling firewood–even if they do complain sometimes
::being able to walk into a grocery store and find everything we could need to sustain us physically
::a visible Church to sustain us spiritually
::hearing my girls stay up late watching old movies
::a glass full of water
::the Word of God so easily accessible
Praying…
I am praying for a fruitful Lent. I am praying to become a better pray-er this Lent; to really take the time to be still and converse with my Father in heaven. I am praying that my children take this season to grow in closer friendship with our Lord. I’m praying for those who are battling themselves from within; a silent yet deadly battle.
Pondering…
I am pondering a “rigid” prayer schedule to get me started on the right foot to ingrain some much needed habit in my prayer life. I have been in a season of pregnancy, new babies, nursing babies, waking toddlers and that season is slowly slipping away. Now it’s time to get back into some better habitual personal prayer habits.
Listening to…
My Amazon Prime Music Library: Third Day, Casting Crowns, Rend Collection, Kari Jobe, Ellie Holcomb, Joey and Rory…all free and uninterrupted…Join Amazon Prime – Listen to Over a Million Songs – Start Free Trial Now
Reading…
My Bible
Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year
For Lent I am going to read Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Bible Journaling…
Did you see the short video I posted the other day on Facebook or Instagram reading Philippians 4:8 while showing a trick I learned from Pinterest? First let me remind you, I am not a crafty person. Second, this was so much fun. I bought some pretty cards at Hobby Lobby and washi taped them into my journaling Bible
Around the House…
Bernadette and I have decided we need to take up a 40 Bags in 40 Days Challenge this Lent. Enough said.
In the Kitchen…
I have not been committed to following Trim Healthy Mama
Our Domestic Church…
Shrove Tuesday party on Tuesday and Ash Wednesday on Wednesday…Mass, Stations and soup dinner every Friday…I told the big girls to grab a spiritual book off the shelf for their Lenten reading, their choice. The younger kids will each read an age appropriate Bible…I need to sit down with the younger kids and help them come up with the plan for Lent.
Saving Money…
I didn’t. I will.
Captured…
Link up your Online Journal posts. All links will be pinned to my Online Journal Pinterest Board.
I loved the idea! I’m not tech savvy enough for link ups, but I really like it.
So happy for your visit. The link up is easy. Copy your blog address for your Daybook post. Click the “Add Link” and paste your blog address to that specific post, fill in the other blanks: email, name and click enter. Hope to see you next week!
Hi, thank you for sharing a part of your life and plans at Good Morning Mondays. Blessings to you this Lenten season.
Thanks for the visit Terri and time to comment. Have a great week!
I love your bible journaling and those flip out washi tape cards are so cool. I’m also a big book buyer but not as bad as you guys! 😉
Hi Brandi. Those taped in cards are so pretty and easy. I just added some more today. There were some beautiful quotes that paralleled the scripture I was reading and I wanted to keep them together.
After you read my daybook, you will see that I probably need to be part of that “no buying books during Lent” group! Ha!! Thanks for the reminder of the 40 bags project! I am adding that to my plans! Oh! And I really like your little journaling cards. Until you, I never even knew Bible journaling existed … Now I see it everywhere!
Headed over to read yours in a minute. Email me if you get tempted!! I know, it seems like Bible journaling has exploded or maybe I’m just more aware of it.
Although I really do have enough books to LAST THE REST OF MY LIFE! ~ I am so eyeing up Our Thoughts….
Maybe I will buy one more and then NO MORE through Lent. Yeah, just one more. Honestly, I could be spending thousands on a good therapist ~ and I probably would if I could.
So, I guess I’ll have to Google 40 bags for 40 days, but I’m thinking it’s a give away type thing? I can surely do that. This morning I read this:
“In truth, if the earth and all it contains must one day disappear by fire, the goods of this world are no more to be esteemed than wood and straw. What point is there, then, in making them the object of our desires and cares? Why seek to build and leave marks of our genius and power where we have no permanent abode, and where the form of this world will be removed, like a tent that has no travelers to shelter?”
— Father Charles Arminjon, p. 28
Ok Michelle, let’s hold each other accountable…
We, Jenny and Michelle, will not purchase a single book, no matter how great or on sale it may be at least until after Easter.
If I feel tempted, I am emailing you!
40 Bags in 40 Days is getting rid of 40 bags worth of stuff in 40 Days–sounds great for Lent right, especially in light of your quote this morning.
I’m discerning the whole matter and will get back to you on it.
I have this little habit of first justifying a purchase and then second guessing it to death. Sometimes it’s so strong, I simply return it. I am asking God for a unique criteria that I can use in this regard. (i.e. the 24-hr waiting period).
we are such a blessed people, we have everything we need and want and God takes care of us when we or even before we ask.