fall semester starts on monday. i'll praise him for that too, though it takes more effort.
in the midst of the last few weeks of school, life and nate's wedding i haven't had a lot of time to read, but i did pick up this jewel; it is a fantastic find. cold tangerines is a beautiful story of the reasons we have to celebrate in this life. i should celebrate more; be grateful more.
you should order it today. it's worth it. here's one of my favorite quotes:
"every life tells a story, through words & actions & choices, through our homes and our children, through out clothes and dishes and perfume. we each play a character in a grand drama, and every stage direction matters. we tell our stories, and we let God's story be told through our stories. we hide and we seek, and we lose ourselves in the best possible way, and find things around us and inside ourselves that we never expected. we tell God's story as we live and discover our own. we know that God is a storyteller. he's a mad scientist and a father and a magician, and certainly, he's a storyteller. and i don't know if there's anything better in the world than when we lay ourselves wide open and let his story become our story, when we screw up our fists and our courage and start to tell the truest, best stories we know, which are always God's stories" (Niequist, 2007, p. 137).
go hug a friend.
eat a cold tangerine.
laugh a little louder and a little more.
do something you love doing. and then do it again.
celebrate.
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