Please visit Peggy's (The original Simple Woman) blog and leave a comment if you'd like...I'm sure she would appreciate it.For this day......
Outside My Window... rain-filled clouds in the east - with a hopeful tinge of blue sky in the west, wet pavement and streets from this morning's rain.
I am thinking......that I will need the Lord's strength and wisdom this week to accomplish all my tasks -- that 'crunch time' awareness when my plate is already full...
I am thankful for.... a tasty Sunday lunch and visit with my niece, Anna...
From the kitchen... More homegrown tomatoes, Gala apples, red grapes, Bertoli Chicken Parmiagiana leftovers....
I am wearing... Black and white striped shirt, black pants and shoes - and white sweater....
I am creating... ... a rental agreement :)
I am reading... Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley.
I am hoping... to be faithful in all the details at work and at home....
I am hearing... keyboard tapping, CPU humming, -- a nice, quiet morning...
Around the house... Clean, clean, clean because I've been showing my apartment for those interested in my duplex apartment...New furnace!!!!!
One of my favorite things... Sunday's sermon by Pastor Jason on Galatians 4....
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week: Continuing to do all the fun landlady things to get my duplex rented by December 1st -- emailing some motherly advice for an upcoming baby shower...
Here is a picture thought I am sharing:
Janice and Danielle - the first place winners in a recent office competition....
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2 comments:
I like your "hoping" -- to faithful in all the details. I just love that.
Just seeing the image of a woman at her writing desk lets me breathe more slowly, and linger just a moment. Your list today has poetry -- or the promise of poetry -- in each one.
I do relate to the "crunch time awareness" when your plate is full. I ask my Lord for help the second I wake up, and am thankful he doesn't guide out of having my morning coffee, but seems happy to sit with me while I think through the day and make my list. There's usually more listed than I'll have time, energy, or inclination to do as the day wears on, so I ask again throughout the day.
Years ago, when I chaired our local Christian Women's Club, I made up a short rhyme and tune to get me through all my duties as wife, mom, business-owner, and chairman of this organization.
We had just had a group prayer time, and others were asking not to be so ambitious. I went home thinking, but that's exactly what I NEED to be!
So I wrote out and repeated daily:
Lord, make me ambitious for you.
Please help me I pray
To do today,
Whatever you want me to do.
Pretty simplistic, but I still sing it, after all these years. Organized I am not. I aspire to be a Simple Woman with her paints and pen, writing to make a difference.
Barb
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