Category: From my Journal
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It’s been awhile….
Hello, sweet friends! It has been QUITE a LONG time since I’ve shared anything here and I have REALLY missed you! The site suffered some technical difficulties in the midst of the last group reading of the Bible and my family life also hit some speed bumps around that same time. I also took on…
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Enter His gates with thanksgiving (and reap the benefits!!)
This morning, before I launched into my reading, I decided to enter His gates with thanksgiving and praise. I first started praying quietly, thinking of the positive things that happened yesterday and thanking God for them. No, yesterday was not an outstanding day. Actually, it held a lot of exhaustion. But tiny reasons to be…
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Vision Boarding with Focus in my Planner
Last week I took the vison-boarding concept to my quarterly planner. Typically, at the start of a new journal or planner, I’ll go through magazines to find images words that appeal to me and glue them into the opening spread to remind me where I want my focus to be. I’ve use quotes, words, pictures…
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Navigating London & Life Jan 2020
Hello, sweet friends! I’ve just arrived in London for a few meetings here and in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the next week. It’s just after 9 am here, making it just after 3 am back home in Texas. (I try not to think of the time back home, but I had to share.) I snapped that…
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Giving Thanks: Gifts from a winter storm
Give thanks to the Lord; proclaim his name! Make his works known among the peoples. Declare that his name is exalted. Isaiah 12:4 Hello sweet friends! I am taking in the beautiful snow at Cornell University right now and just HAD to share it with you. I am parked here for a few days, awaiting…
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Hearing HIM through the noise
Does anyone else struggle in hearing His clear direction? I want to follow Him. I trust Him. I don’t think faith in Him is the problem… it’s faith in me to hear Him clearly. I look back on my life and see His hand so very clearly in so many ways in every single place.…
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Wondering or grumbling? What’s your manna?
Good morning Ladies!! This morning I was re-reading Exodus 16 and I thought about all that wandering and grumbling. Then I thought about all my asking for big signs, all my wondering while wandering, and the number of times He has sent them. And it occurred to me that perhaps my questioning and asking for…
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Looking for a beautiful story of humanity and love? I’ve got one!
This has been a summer filled with glorious books. I’ve enjoyed so much fiction, nearly fiction and non-fiction as I reveled in the extra time gained by not driving children across Houston to two or three schools and back. My latest read is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” and it was magnificent!…
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Drinking from the firehose of life… or balancing Giant Jenga
Hi friends. (Even if I have never laid eyes on every single one of you, I still feel like we’re friends since you’re reading about the details of my life. So I hope the casual greeting is okay with you.) This summer has been super crazy packed full. It’s been filled with gorgeous, beautiful amazing…
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Uganda, Seychelles, Bordeaux, San Francisco and Sweden – Back from three weeks away
Last week I returned home from just over three weeks away. Chronologically I was in San Francisco, Bordeaux for VinExpo (with stopovers in transit in Paris for lunch and ice cream!) rural Uganda with Love Does, the Seychelles (off the coast of Africa), and Stockholm, Sweden. I also spent MANY hours in the Dubai airport…
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And so I travel…
Traveling for work is an interesting thing… As much as most of my travel is to advance VineSleuth, it still feels odd saying ‘work’ there. Work implies that it is forced, but my work is my choice. I’m building this business and every trip is a decision. Do I stay or do I go? Is…
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Postpartum depression: My story and a special event in Houston
A little bit about my postpartum depression story Before I had kids, of course I never thought postpartum depression would impact me. I was healthy. I had a great husband. In my mind, I had what I needed and postpartum depression was only for people who had drastic mood swings and way more stress. And…
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Visiting the Fearless Girl
I was in New York City yesterday for a meeting and fortunately I was able to tuck in a few meetups with friends I adore (and who energize me!!) as well as a quick trip to ‘meet’ a fearless girl… I LOVE this new statue of the fearless girl staring down the famous bull in…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Earlier today my oldest son (age 15) asked me if I had read The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. I had not. He had read it years ago. And so he called up his friend who had borrowed our copy and asked her to return it. She did. I decided I needed a…
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I am like an olive tree…
Need something to calm you down? I’ve got something for you. This morning I could feel the pressure rising. And then I remembered this from my reading Tuesday… “But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.” –Psalm 52:18 Yes, I…