Sweet Jessie, who had one of the best smiles at Allume last year, has this fun linkup in which we all share our favorite reads from the week. I’ve written nothing here this week, but maybe in the days there will be more.
I’m working on a lot of projects right now, finishing up the MOPS year, typing away at the never-ending novel, submitting articles to various publications and trying simultaneously not to get my hopes up or sink to the depths of despair over rejection. Oh, and I’ve got a column for the paper due this week. I just love my church family who stops me when I’m getting my sweet tea on Wednesday nights to tell me they love what I write. Helps me remember that it’s okay to be small and that my small is someone else’s big.
We’ve also got a lot of personal reflection going on right now. Nothing I really want to get into, but we’re in a waiting phase right now and I don’t like it because I’m so impatient. I just want the change and I want it now, even though I’m not really sure what it should be. Which makes no sense, I know. Maybe I’ll figure out some words this week. We’ll see.
So my best reads this week are random and varied but what my soul needed.
100 Ways To Make Your Marriage Rock: This is an older post from Kristen Welch, but it was just something I needed this week. We get in the routine, you know, and it’s not that things are bad, it’s just that maybe they could be better? This list jogged my memory with great ideas of things we could do together to improve our marriage, because let’s face it, nobody’s perfect and nobody’s got it together all of the time. Personally, I really love how she says in #20 and #21 to look to him to make the big decisions and let her make the small ones. Lately, we’ve had a bit of an issue with me trusting Joshua and believing him when he tells me our debt payoff will work, and we’ve had issue with him giving me opinions on things like new bedding when he really doesn’t care, but I asked so he figured I cared what he thought. (It’s not that I didn’t value his opinion, but I had a vision that he didn’t know about. Bet you can guess how that went.)
Amy at Coffee with the Mrs. writes my heart in this post about finding your place at the roots. Right now, we’re both hoping funds come through so we can have cupcakes and coffee together at Allume this year, but what she says here is so exactly where my heart needs to be, no matter what happens.
How to Choose what’s important today over at Lisa Jo’s was the Five Minute Friday prompt this week. I didn’t write because choosing is what I’m at odds with right now so I couldn’t even choose which of the five topics came to my mind when I saw this. But her words about choosing to recognize that the daily mundane really is what matters most, and when she says “The only thing that stood the test of time was who was the parent and who was the child.” I almost wept.
And since we’re in this season of trying to decide (and hoping) on a new home I also loved this post at Incourage 5 Ways to Build a Beautiful Home because ultimately that’s the kind of home I want.
Lastly, on that home note, The Nester always has some great wisdom in the form of arrows for me. I have no idea what the arrows are in my home. Do you know what yours are? Want to come over and help me find mine? Oh, and I cleaned off my kitchen table. Lasted all night.
What did you read that was great this week? Link up with Jessie or leave me some comment love below!
Lindsey P. Brackett 