Grounded :: My word for 2017

Wishing us all safe journeys 

and traveling mercies

in 2017.

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We made it . . .

While a few days later than most 

(and I'm ok with that...feels like there's a lesson in there as well), 

Mary and I did complete our journey 

around my beautiful Advent wreath spiral. 

 💜💜💗💜

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Basking in Love

Enjoyed wearing my sweet necklace today 

and fondly basking in the knowledge 

that it was lovingly made just for me 

by one very dear-to-my-heart little girl. 

 💗

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Savoring January 2017

Loving the name of this one

and when I peek at the words

(because I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself),

I just sigh a big ol' contented sigh.

And it never has to be done perfectly, right?

Right.

(Isn't that part of what savoring means?)

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Waiting

Looking to use up the last of our Flexible Spending Account money 

before the end of the year finds us 

sitting in the waiting area 

for darlin' hubby's eye appointment this evening. 

🤓

While this photo doesn't show it 

(out of respect for their privacy 😉), 

it would seem lots (and lots!) of other folks 

are doing the very same thing. 

😎

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In the Beginning . . . .

So loving that this photo came up in my "On This Day" Facebook feed 

for today and, I've posted several photos of them here, 

thought it might be fun to revisit this, my very first posted photo of them. 😉

. . . . . . . . . 

❤️️

Smiling fondly as I had *no* idea 

what blessed and welcomed companions 

my beautiful quartet of sister angels 

would be all thru 2016. 

 Such a lovely example and quiet reminder 

to intentionally chose where to Abide, 

my word for the year. 

(And I have no plans to move them anytime soon. 😉)

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Playing Santa Claus (Finally!)

Finally felt well enough 

(and germ free enough 😉) 

to mail some Christmas packages this morning. 

 Yippee!! 

🎉🎁🎄

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Silent Night

My sweet hubby.

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Catching Up

💜💜💗💜

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Still waiting and watching over here

❤️

So Much Better

It appears the corner has (finally) been turned 

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Provisions

Still lurching along over here. Grateful for a kind doc-in-a-box (or Walgreens 😉) and a 

willing hubby to take me. Tuesday's Strep throat is better (yay!) and now looking for the 

bronchitis and the coughing (oh, the coughing!) to finally take their leave of this Advent 

journey. 😉

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Advent is for Everyday

"Relinquish expectations for holidays that are without conflict or problems or challenges 

[or sickness]. Christmas [and Advent] is about God embracing human life – with all of its shortcomings, mistakes, and struggles."

~ "Christmas Therapy" 

by Karen Katafiasz

Third Sunday Sojourn

💜💜💗

Eventide Journeying and Abiding

Eventide Journeying and Abiding

(love this photo)

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Frosty Morning

Had a little frost on the ground this morning 

and a small patch of ice on the sidewalk too.

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December Reflections :: In the Air

Raphael's branches

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Second Sunday Morning Adventing

💜💜

And Circles 

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December Reflections :: Light

Because the length of Advent is different every year there are only 24 stopping places 

on my wooden wreath.

Knowing this is a season of waiting and practicing patience, it feels right that there's a bit 

of waiting practice intentionally built in to the beginning of each year.

Still, she says with a warm smile, on Dec. 2, the day when it's time for Mary, donkey 

and me to start our actual journeying around the spiral always finds me breathing a sigh of 

relief.

One step, one day at a time feels like a holy thing to me, reflecting and honoring not only 

our Advent journey but our pilgrimage in life as well.

Blessed be. 

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