Isn’t it funny how something small can mean so much?
Last week my assistant team manager went to the shops then came back saying she had a surprise for me. She went all out, making me close my eyes and everything.
What was it?
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Apparently brought because she thought I needed cheering up.
This meant the world to me and remains in my basket where I sit everyday so I can see it
I love getting a new planner although a bit like this blog I always start with great intentions and then run out of steam and don’t use it as I should.
After taking the plunge halfway through the year and trying a planner from Christianplanner.com I had to then preorder one for 2023.
The order was sent on the 9th from America and arrived on the 14th I struggle to get service like that from the Uk.
The quality and service from this company has been amazing and I have already started to prepare it for use by adding month tabs and my name to the front.
When do you start thinking about next year ?
Are you a planner or do you do it as it comes?
Today is the funeral and I find myself feeling very reflective this morning. I suppose funerals do that even if it is someone we have never met.
The Queen has been formidable in her role she and I have so far seen signs that it may continue I think there has been some leaning into God and that they are using there faith as support.
Now to see if others can follow in their footsteps.
I found the picture below whilst searching for something on Pinterest. It has not copied well but you can get the idea.
In the sorting this week I went through the fridge not to see what was out of date but to throw away anything that had gone off.
These are very different things.but that is not what the world would have us believe. I don’t look at the use by dates but I do look at what the food looks like and smells like.
Our house is cluttered by us not throwing things away as they might be useful and whilst I want to clear some of it, I am not throwing out things for the sake of it.
Lately I have heard lots of people talking about contentment and it got me thinking.
First I looked it up in the dictionary;
I also searched what the bible says:
CONTENT; CONTENTMENT
kon-tent', kon-tent'-ment (ya`al; arkeo):
To be free from care because of satisfaction with what is already one's own. The Hebrew means simply "to be pleased." The Greek brings out the full force of the word in 1 Timothy 6:8; Hebrews 13:5. Contentment (1 Timothy 6:6) is more inward than satisfaction; the former is a habit or permanent state of mind, the latter has to do with some particular occurrence or object.
So then,what is contentment?
The reality is that I think it is different for everyone. We all find our pleasure and happiness in different things and that is what makes us all different.
For me these 2 pictures sum up being content
Sometime you have to make a start.
This week I have been working on sorting and cleaning but I am also battling what I think is a tooth abscess.I have antibiotics and am hoping for the best.
DH also has dentist yesterday to have a tooth removed so we are eating lots of soft foods in this house.
Weather has been dull grey and some rain but I really don’t care it is nice to just be.
Like a lot of others I choose a word each year. For 2025 my word is; Also I have chosen a bible verse which is: Do you choose a word?
