Time audits
*{FREE printable} Auditing your time may seem tedious(because the first time will likely feel tedious), but long term you will be ever grateful that you gifted yourself this honest glimpse of how you are living your days.
Last monthโs top nine
These are the things that helped me stay on task last month. While not one of these will solve all the worldโs problems, each one played a small part in making life around these busy parts a bit more calm-and thatโs welcome always.
Review: Rest & Reflect guided journal by Rachel Fahrenbach
A review for the twelve week guided journal titled โRest and Reflectโ by Rachel Fahrenbach: I know Rachel through a writing group and originally purchased the journal as a way to support another homeschool mom; because, gracious, homeschooling plus writing in the margins of the day is tough stuff. Hereโs what I found now that Iโve used this practice a few months. The journal was worth every penny. She leads you through the process she followed to help make Sabbath a priority in her own home.
Let the light in
Did you already know the day would feel long, before you even pulled yourself up out of bed this morning? You arenโt the first to feel this way and you likely wonโt be the last either. You arenโt alone. Motherhood is indeed a marathon, a long haul journey. Even in neutral, you still flux backward or forward. Without this perspective, we will end up drifting through our days instead of walking with purpose.
art
The act of creating(whether it be through writing, music, dance, art, or another media) is an act of faith. Itโs an act of faith that, through the vulnerability of expressing our innermost emotions, we can grow. It is the hope within all of it that we may bless another person who may be experiencing similar emotions.
mill lessons
When I was in 2nd grade, we lived down the street from the Old Mill with my grandparents. Occasionally, my Papaw would take me to the mill to purchase buckwheat pancake mix from Charlie, the millโs proprietor. Iโd wander around looking at bags of pancake mixes and listen to the men chat and catch up at the other side of the store.
I learned a few things on those visits(๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ธ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต)-this particular early Saturday morning was a lesson on wheat.
You see, around the world, most grainsโฆ
what is your why?
๐โ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ & ๐ ๐๐๐๐? โฃ
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That question rung around my head for a while once. You see, we all have those things we crave in life, the things we feel the deepest compelling to do, the things we believe we were placed on this earth to accomplish. โฃ
just five minutes
๐ had ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฌ could ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐.
The year was 2012 and Ann Voskamp said I needed to walk five minutes of fresh oxygen into my cells each day(full disclosure: it was her blog post that told me-those daily blog posts coming to my phone were a lifeline). Iโd been breathing through a cracked open window for two weeks in tiny snippets by that point and the idea of fresh air felt like a heap of timid amazing.