Category: Inspiration and Joy
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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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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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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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A view instead of a verse
Good morning, friends! This morning I had a tough time zeroing in on one verse for SOAP. Before I began to read, though, I couldn’t help but take in this gorgeous view: We are staying in a house in Lakeway, Texas this week for Spring Break. I discovered a balcony off the master bedroom this…
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A few virtues to ponder & share…
Good morning! My devo time today led me to Colossians 3:12-14 and these gems to think about/ incorporate more of into my life: -Compassion -Kindness -Humility -Gentleness -Patience -Forgiveness -LOVE I wrote them on an index card so I could think about them some more. I could sure use more of all of those… as…
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On bikinis, business and being brave
This week I’m attempting to be on a family vacation in the Texas Hill Country. (You can follow some of our adventures on Instagram, if you’d like.) I say attempting because I’m also a tech CEO working her tail off to get my startup well into our next chapter, and that doesn’t really allow for…
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What is your ‘Why?’
Why are you doing what you are doing? I saw this productivity-boosting question in an email and had to make myself a note to remember it and call it into action. Sometimes my answer might be serious, and sometimes it may be simply ‘to relax.’ Whatever the answer, defining my ‘Why’ will certainly help keep…
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I’m celebrating the #bdayproject and giving to others on my birthday. Join me?
Good morning, friends! Today is my birthday and I’m starting it out with an annual mammogram and finishing it out by attending a wedding. In the middle is the super good #bdayprojectstuff. (Not that the wedding won’t be fun, too.) A few years ago my friend Robyn celebrated her birthday by spending the day giving…