Day 5 About now, many of use are ready to push the button and go into hyper drive. Yes? About now, you see that I have a video link below and if you are like me, you'll click away, telling yourself you don't have time to watch a 4 minute video. Might you reconsider? About now, you're wondering what I have planned for you. My prayer is that the next four minutes will touch you deep inside and set all this busyness into perspective. How Often Do You Sit In The Thanksgiving Chair? If you like to share your thoughts....please do … [Read more...]
Day 1 I decided. I'm living in the moment. I'm not thinking about Christmas and all the goodness of the Christmas season. Nope. I'm camped out in Thanksgiving. With that in mind, I decided to narrow my focus as we approach Thanksgiving. Each of these {7 Days of Thanksgiving} posts will have something for your inspiration with that focus. I hope it's just what you need, too. Today I'm loving these words of President Theodore Roosevelt..... A good question to ask ourselves.... What are we doing as an expression of gratefulness for all our … [Read more...]
What do we celebrate on Thanksgiving? When I was a little girl, the front of the church would have a beautiful assembly of pumpkins and squash and corn stalks. Even then, it warmed my heart. We would sing a song about the harvest being gathered in, and it seemed so big, like a great accomplishment. And I would think of the glass canning jars filled with peaches and tomatoes that lined the shelves of the "turntable" in my mother's cupboard....so heavily laden I could hardly make it spin an inch. Harvest....that was what Thanksgiving was about. Everyone gathered together in … [Read more...]
Day 25 It's hard to believe. 25 days in a row. Writing. Blogging. Doing my best to inspire myself and you to live an extraordinary life. These 25 days have required a lot of discipline on my part. With just 6 more days to go...I am truly glad that I made the commitment and have stuck to the challenge. If you've been following along for a while, you might remember that I had two laptops that crashed. Despite that, I went ahead with 31 Extraordinary Days. I've been writing and editing photos on my husband's laptop in the evenings and his day off. It has been … [Read more...]
