August 2012
#shereadstruth.
Ever struggle with keeping up with your daily readings/devotions?
I sure as anything do! I was recommended this online reading plan, Prayer, through this website. (it’s linked under “prayer”)
I just subscribed not even 10 minutes ago and I had the simple instructions on how to sign up. Today’s reading was short, Matthew 6:5-13, and the website encourages you to pray, journal, and share your time with the Lord.
Not only does this plan seem to be awesome, but the website is too! It’s fun and with a funky/cool design that helps me feel encouraged to keep up with it.
Take a look, go purchase that Moleskin journal you’ve been keeping your eye on, and read!
my morning.
I expected to sleep in more than I really did, this morning. I awoke at 8:00am and managed to feel pretty good this morning, meaning I wasn’t too groggy.
I made a Brew HaHa! run and got the usual coffee and bagel. I came home and did the DD (daily devotional). I just started Streams in the Desert, which I am really enjoying.
I’ve also committed to reading the entire Bible with my youngest brother, Ryan. We’re 3 days in, on a reading plan that starts Genesis and will end in Revelation, and is a full year plan. This will also help me complete one thing on my 20’s project.
I’ve also managed to get some much needed laundry done!
Sheets are in the dryer and ready to be put on the bed.
I’ve got the house to myself, today. It’s nice to have peace and quiet, something that I find helps me keep going. You ever have those days where you just need to be alone? Not in a sad and depressing way, but in a way that can help you recharge. It’s one of those days.
I have work this afternoon, and then I’ll head back to the hospital to visit for a while.
And I’ll leave you with this video, one that’s encouraging today!
Come to Me — Bethel Music (ft. Jenn Johnson)
Have a lovely day!
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
—Richard Bach
Summertime
Louis Armstrong
goodnight, lovely people.
“Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep.”
—Anne Lamott (via lebellecoeur)
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via lebellecoeur)
“God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, “I am here.”
—
Louie Giglio
AAAAAAAAAmmmeeennnn!!!
(via lebellecoeur)
“Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response.”
—B.J. (via mountainmusing)
“I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via craigtommola)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via modernhepburn)
“Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.”
—A.M. Royden (via sorakeem)
exhausted.
a day of being on the go.
i had a haircut appointment (no worries no more than an inch off, to chop off split ends), had to take brother to dentist (parents are out of town), ran to hospital for an hour, picked up sister at work, ran to mall, dropped brother off at friends house, then my sister & i went to an outdoor play (at Longwood Gardens) with our grandparents.
home at 11:45pm and i’m rushing into pajamas, washing face, letting out dog and laying in bed listening to some relaxing music.
(some of my favorites)
sleep will come soon.
i hope you all had a wonderful day! -meg
My Prayer in the Desert.
Lord, You hear our prayers. Comfort us, relieve our anxieties in this waiting. Let us lean on You for strength, because God, You know we cannot fight this fight without You. We’re clinging to You and only You during this time. We love You and help us respect Your will, whatever it may be.
Psalm 23.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
