Posted in Bits of Sunshine, tagged Dwight Schrute, hold music, strange things on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m going through an online music library right now to find a new music track for the “hold” setting on our phone system at work, and I am encountering some of the most bizarre (and creepiest) titles for tracks. I thought you all could use a slightly bewildered laugh in your day!
Titles such as…
I’d Split [...]
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Life, tagged celebration, feeling good, the sacred and the profane on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I also just wanted to add that I am finding small ways to celebrate who I am, in my real self (see previous entry from earlier today), and it’s helping with the low patches I’ve been scraping against lately. Rob talked today about seeing the sacred in the common and everyday. I am reminded that [...]
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Life, Random Thoughts on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Life, Random Thoughts, tagged encouragement, friends, just to smile, Life, love on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I guarantee if you take the time to look at these, you will smile like a fool and your day will instantly perk up.
Seriously.
So worth it.
(Have you looked yet?)
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Life, tagged dreams, springtime, trees on April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I used to dream about living in a tree when I was younger. Like some impish fairy, I’d curl up in the hollow trunk amongst beds of fallen leaves and moss. I’d make friends with the squirrels, pick my breakfast off nearby branches, and spend long days doing nothing but looking at the sky. The [...]
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Single Life, tagged being happily single, breathing, brownies, coffee, comfortable in your own skin, feelin' pretty, Grand Rapids, grocery lists, joy, Michigan, quesadillas, Seth Bernard and Daisy May, The Sparrows on April 2, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Today is having joy for its own sake.
Today is my roommate buying me a cup of coffee at the Sparrows on our way to work for no reason.
Today is crinkling my nose because I can hardly hold in how much I am falling in love with Seth Bernard and Daisy May (whoa-ho Kim, I am [...]
Posted in Bits of Sunshine, Christianity, God, Life, Random Thoughts, tagged Christianity, God, Jesus, journey, Life, rolling down hills on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I drove up to Mount Pleasant to see my Sandra yesterday, which was beautiful. One of my favorite parts of the trip is usually the drive up, for I am often blessed with stretches of blue skies and gorgeous, gorgeous solitude. As I was driving yesterday morning, I was thinking about what journeying with God [...]
"...we'll lie down on the mat and stare up at the vast blue sky above us and watch the clouds go by and listen to the breeze as it moves the leaves overhead. I'll be there, on my back, and say a short prayer: 'God, I can't believe I get to live this life.'"
-"Velvet Elvis," Rob Bell
