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5 Meaningful and Creative Ways to Occupy your Time during the Holiday Season!

The sunny holiday’s are here, and if you’re like me (20 years ago), holidays spell fun. I used to love holidays as a youth because it meant that I could go through all the ‘Famous Five’ and ‘Anne of Green Gables’ story books that I could cram in (about one a day) and do allContinue reading “5 Meaningful and Creative Ways to Occupy your Time during the Holiday Season!”

What occupies your mind? Gazing Upwards and Learning to Wonder.

I used to gaze in wonder as a child, watching the wonder of a sunrise, or the beauty of a rainbow. I still gaze now and again, especially when I see an eagle soaring above me, or at some unique flower growing out of the cement (yes where I stay now gives me this privilege).

But if I’m honest with you, I find it harder to stop and gaze now then when I was a child. Life comes with its worries and baggage and tries to pull me down. I no longer look at my yummy meal and savour every bite of it, in fact I am usually multitasking on the phone. I no longer find rain intriguing, in fact I sometimes consider it a nuisance.

A Masterpiece and no less

On a lovely white pillow in my room, is a cross-stitched art with these words from Ephesians 2:10 in the Bible ‘ For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.’

One night, as I stared at it, I found the word ‘anew’ jump at me. In Christ I am created anew.

When breakthrough tarries

Sometimes we wonder how long.

Sometimes we retreat out of anguish because the oppression just got worse.

Sometimes we question the length and process needed for our deliverance.

Sometimes we face counter attacks.

Developing Self Worth: Learning to be human again by enjoying daily simple pleasures

If there’s one thing I totally dislike, its to box up people. Standardization scares me. Whether its a school system that categorizes kids based on the number of correct questions they have or robots arranged in apocalyptic military fashion, I absolutely find boxing up humanity as a utter violation of basic human rights.