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Christmas Journal

The Weary World Rejoices

I was attending a church many years ago that did not sing many traditional Christmas songs throughout Advent. When I asked someone about it, they expressed that they wanted to wait to sing the songs celebrating Jesus’s birth until Christmas Day. I was confused. Why wouldn’t you want to sing “Joy to the World” and […]

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Journal Poems

desolate lake

a lament. Late one night in October, after a pleasant day of adventures around Rifle Gap State Park and Rifle Falls State Park in Colorado, I felt unease in my soul. As I was getting ready to fall asleep, the tears came on strong. I had no words to describe where this anguish was coming […]

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Little White Chapel

Today’s post is a continuation of sharing my journey of grief and dealing with change. For three weeks in October, my family of five (plus the dog!) piled into our truck, hitched up a small travel trailer and road-tripped across the country. I wrote this entry in my journal while on that trip. Today I […]

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Enneagram Journal

Upheaval

We have been going through a tough season. For me, my season of crazy hasn’t just been from COVID, but a myriad of things. I wanted to share, but wasn’t ready to until now. I plan to post a few things I have written over the past few months that I kept tucked away. I […]

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DO THE WORK Goals & Dreams

DO THE WORK 2020: Reset

Restarting & Goal Setting It has been five or so months since I last posted. When school closed, so did my brain. I went into survival mode trying to navigate quarantine, home-schooling and all the other changes that were occurring. Which means I basically stopped working on this blog and my own challenge for the […]