Laurel Luehmann posted: " Happy new year, friends! Goodness. In some ways I feel as though 2023 never existed, and in others I feel as though it lasted a lifetime. XD Maybe I'll do a year wrap-up post in a week or so, but here's December's recap for now! Here's a coffee for th" Laurel Luehmann
Goodness. In some ways I feel as though 2023 never existed, and in others I feel as though it lasted a lifetime. XD Maybe I'll do a year wrap-up post in a week or so, but here's December's recap for now! Here's a coffee for the ride.☕ 🙂
And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
Psalm 39:7
Things worth remembering...
my dear aunt's homegoing...only happy tears for her from now on. ❤
lots of cousin time
learning that thou shalt trust thy grandmother's navigational advice and not thine own misgivings (I'm sorry I doubted you, Grandma.🙈)
minute-to-win-it games with friends (bonus points for not burning the house down)
crocheting a beanie that no one wants to wear
all of the Sunday School Christmas program practices
the Christmas program itself...everyone brought their best to the table and made it so special!
a very brown and green Christmas
surviving weeks of cold and flu bugs viciously crawling through the household
When we have an agenda for God, we can't see the gifts from God.
How many of us acted and spoke out and fought for beliefs that we held because our environment told us to? As much as I wanted to blame my England, I knew the blame sat with me. I hadn't trained myself to discern. To examine. To seek the source. That was about to change.
I wasn't expecting the allegorical elements of this book, and I absolutely loved them. With its nods to history and the complex plot, I enjoyed it immensely! It's a little on the bloody side, but such a good read if you don't mind that.
"Just this morning the tastiest redfish in the lake swam up to me and said he was there to give himself up for the most honorable and noble Persian man of an approaching caravan. And here you are!"
Salamar laughed a loud laugh. "And for how much did this redfish say he would sell himself before being smoked and salted?"
The boy shrugged. "Oh, only a small token of, say, five measures of fine Persian tea."
Listening to my dad read this in the evenings this month was definitely a highlight!
I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.
elyse m. Fitzpatrick
From the journal...
Fill me with more of You and a blessed self-forgetfulness.
Lord, thank You for the gift of laughter...for the ability to hold things loosely and lightly because You are the one who truly holds it all.
*Remembering the character of our God will lead to a complete trust of Him with the future.*
The sinner must come to Jesus, not to works, ordinances, or doctrines, but to a personal Redeemer, who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.
charles spurgeon
What are some of the memories/thoughts you're carrying away from this past December?
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