#journalingthroughadvent

The Return to Normal

Blessings for new adventures in 2023 I’ve taken a bit of a “blog break” over he Christmas holidays but today it’s time to get back into routine. First I want to wish all my faithful subsribers a very happy 2023. We never know what is in front of us – most of us anyway – but we can look forward with hope in our hearts to a year of better things. That is different for all of us. It might mean…

Day 7 Love Tonight, the Christ candle will be lit in Christian churches and homes around the world.  Many other traditions are also welcoming the light which is beyond our understanding. Be sure to take just a moment for yourself today and journal about anything that may have changed for you in this journaling journey.  I want to thank you for allowing me to spend a couple of minutes with you…

Day 6 Love The keyboard at the ready I sit here wondering what in the world to say about love.  Tomorrow is easy because it is a wrap up sort of day for the 28 days of doing this.  Today though, is the day I think about all the things I could have said, should have said.  All the things I would like you to have experienced in this journey.  What piece of my heart did I not open to you.  What…

Love Day 5 I’m sitting here at sunset of the longest night of the year thinking how amazing it is that the ancients had all the movements of the sun figured out so long ago.  I’m sure their lives were not simple.  There were no big machines to move he rocks at stone henge and the Myan’s only had simple tools but still they devoted their strength and their knowledge to honour and love the…

Love Day 4 We all like a good love story.  The Television is flooded with those sappy stories.  Girl goes back home after being heartbroken in the city, falls in love with local cowboy at the annual tree light up or bake sale.  He does some stupid thing with an old fling which girl misunderstands.  She breaks up with him and plans to return to the city but then during a lovely snowstorm where…

Love Day 2 I’m recording this on love Sunday.  I just spent three hours in my own version of church.  It’s a group of mostly women who study together some of the feminine mystics and also explore the works of some of the lesser-known early works of Christianity.  I wasn’t going to do that today because there is so much to do to prepare for the week and I felt I didn’t have time.  Then I…

Love Day 1 This is Love Sunday in the Christian Church.  It also happens that it is the beginning of Hanukkah in the Jewish tradition.  I don’t know much about other traditions for this time of year but I know that in the Northern Hemisphere, at least there is a resounding message of love and light given to a dark world.  The Christmas story is a wonderful story of love in many senses.  There…

Joy Day 5 If you ever went to Sunday School you likely heard the acronym for JOY.  Jesus, Others, Yourself.  This is taught to children in the Christian church in an effort to get them to worship first and then serve others before serving themselves.  Even if you don’t agree with the “Jesus” part it’s good policy to put your spiritual self first, then others and then your own needs.   I have a…