LDG5

Friday, Lenten Day 15, LDG5-15:

1) Lunch with my best friend! :D

2) A clean downstairs (working on the upstairs l8r)

3) College Spring Break (myPie is on the way home!!)

4) myPie coming home for the week (I know, redundant but REALLY grateful for this one!)

5) young men who ask permission to date my daughter.

* for those who have forgotten or joined this blog late - LDG5 is Lenten Daily Gratitudes Five.

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Fear less. Hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~~ Swedish Proverb

LDG5

Thursday, Lenten Day 14, LDG5-14:

1) clean teeth

2) printers

3) great set crew who finished the columns

4) choir

5) iCarly

February 14, '10

just words

when things are going well

the day is brighter

the sun feels warmer

the pace quickens and

there is a lightness of step

when things are going well

the day is brighter

when confidence is higher

when a song stirs the air

when a tune leaves the lips and

a smile pauses on each passing face

when things are going well

when confidence is higher

the day can be tackled, conquered

tasks can be quickly completed

self-esteem radiates and

people begin to notice

when things are going well

February 13, '10

Conversation

what is your definition of 'normal', asked he.

being able to feel, experience, and express a full range of emotions without medicated aid, replied she.

he arched a brow, formulating a response.

she burst in, ... like being able to live life without anti-anxiety or greet a new dawn without anti-depressants or stepping out into the daylight and not hiding away from the world.

he smiled. and when do you believe you are not 'normal'?

scrunching her nose she paused. well ... i guess when emotions are too strong; when i'm in a 'storm' and i have to admit there are 'others' to help me live.

acknowledging 'them' makes you not normal, queried he.

if i admit they are then i am crazy, sighed she.

i see, said he.

February 11, '10

"i sought you" i said to god one moonless mid-winter night. "did you feel the longing of my soul?"

"no" was all god said.

"my heart longs for you" i anguished out from the depths of pain. "do you hear the lament of my soul?"

"no" was all god said.

"i will need you, lord" i whispered, spent and broken from my bed. "do you see this wretch worth nothing kneeling low with bent head?"

"ah," god sighed, "at last. now i can lift you gently from despair where your heart will sing and your soul find rest."

LDG5

Wednesday, Lenten Day 13, LDG5-13:

1) snow Snow SNOW!!!

2) no school

3) industrious daughters

4) St. Mark's Youth

5) building columns