Reset the Play Clock: The Weekly Digest

 Looking out the window....

I caught this robin at Green Mountain Community Center just before he/she flew away.

Though echinacea does grow in Alabama, I've seen more of it in Colorado.
These were in pots for sale at the King Soopers.

 

I know that some people don't like them, but Ive been enjoying
the magpies around the apartment complex.

 
Saturday I visited with a friend from the quilt group and had the pleasure of enjoying all the gorgeousness in her front flower beds.

The bees are enjoying the Ice Plants

 

The caterpillar is having a happy chat with the Shasta Daisy.

I do believe that this Day Lily may be the subject of my next painting.

Favorite quote(s) of the week...

While a head full of information divorced from a heart filled with passion is a great danger, the truth is, Jesus himself exalted the role of the intellect when he urged us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30). -  Gary Thomas, Sacred Pathways, p. 208.

 

If we develop these habits [of virtue], we will have the interior spiritual and moral resources with which to respond righteously when we are faced with temptations of any and every sort, as Jesus was in the wilderness. - Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water, p. 8.

 

[Spiritual formation is defined as] the process that takes place in us, as he life of the Spirit of God transforms out life through deepening love and intimacy with Father Son, and Holy Spirit, remaking us in the likeness of Jesus Christ, in His love for the Father and the world. - R. Thomas Ashbrook, Mansions of the Heart, p. 32.

 

The sin God rebukes is not trying and failing, but failing to try. Trying, failing, and trying again is called learning. Failing to try will have no good result; evil will triumph. God expresses his opinion toward passivity in Hebrews 10:38–39: “‘But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.’ But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.” - Cloud & Townsend, Boundaries, p. 102. 

 

If money is to enhance your happiness, it must be used to support aspects of life that themselves bring happiness to you. Money. It’s a good servant but a bad master. - Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project, p. 190.

 

I'm thinking about...

 

My crafting mojo: I know that I haven't posted on my craft blog for over a year.  However, I have been posting photos of my current projects on my Pinterest page, so I haven't been idle.  Keeping my hands busy has kept me sane and away from the kitchen (for the most part).  However, I'm a little burned out at the moment, especially on quilting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calm down.  Let me explain.  

 

Since I started with the Loving Stitches group more than two years ago, I've been creating with fabrics mostly within the same color families unless I buy something myself and go off the rails.  I kid you not, I've made at least four quilts and/or quilt tops containing the same fabrics.  Yes, I have a method for processing scraps that "gets all the goody" out of a piece of fabric, but I'm ready for something new.  I'm ready for some brighter, happier colors and I'm willing to go buy them myself.  

 

Throughout the next week, I'm giving myself a reset.  I'm going to put everything away, not craft for several days, then start again.  

 

I need it. 

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What I've read since the last digest...

• Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas ✮✮✮✮ (Category - Glorious Reread)  
• The Dieter's Prayer Book by Heather Harpham Kopp ✮✮✮1/2 (Category - Glorious Reread):  Please see my review here. 

I'm currently reading...

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Mansions of the Heart by R. Thomas Ashbrook 
• Streams of Living Water by Richard J. Foster 
• Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend 
• On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
• Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon
  
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
  
• Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
• The New American Standard Bible
  

Recent blog posts...

• My previous digest, "Tis or Taint'" is here.
  
• First Line Friday #38: The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard is here. 
• Food and Whine:  The Weekly Hodgepodge is here. 
• My "25 for 2025" challenge is here. (Updated regularly)
• My "I Can Only Blame MyShelf" reading challenge is here.  (Updated regularly). 

From the Workshop... 

Reset!

I am thankful for...

• A good report at my last eye doctor's appointment.
• New athletic shoes.  My old ones were worn slap out.
• More days lately where I feel good rather than not.
• Online tutorials for regular stuff I don't know how to do.
• A great therapist.
• Inexpensive journals.
• Flowers
• Birds
• I'm thankful that our apartment's leasing office warned us about the water being turned off for maintenance.  They didn't tell us anything last time and it wasn't pretty.