31 Days Walking Through Chronic Illness
day eighteen
For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven…
…A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
Ecclesiastes 3:1&7 NLT
Slowing the words today, as I have poured heart and soul onto these pages. It is Sunday. The cooperate day of worship. Time to rest. Curl up in my chair. Dog by my feet. Read a good book. Take a nap.
I pray you have been encouraged or touched in some way by the peeling off of the layers of my story.
I pray you are worshiping The Lord as well and taking a Sabbath rest yourself.
A poet, I am not. I ask that you would give me grace in the stringing together with words a few of my favorite things…
In the first hardest days,
I lay in the surviving of it all
Crawling into a place.
The place of learning,
Learning to savor the slowness.
In the slow, I found sustaining
In these, just to name a few
A few of my favorite things.
My Bible, full of post its, underlined and highlighted words,
A good pen, with which to write.
The perfect journal, where pages lay flat.
Books stacked high, waiting to be read.
Titles such as…
Feast for Thieves, The Prayer Box, Atlas Girl,
Sand in my Sandwich, The Hardest Peace,
The Schooling of Claybird Catts, Praying for Strangers,
Life in the Hollow, Still Life With Breadcrumbs,
Simply Tuesday & Just Show Up
Just to name a few.
College football, my man in his favorite chair.
Steaming hot coffee in hand,
As I survey the view from our deck.
Precious grandchildren, family, and best friends
A Soul Sister, off running the 50K, I had planned.
The Hallmark Channel
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Fuzzy Socks & Jammies too.
These are just a few of the things that have sustained, will continue to sustain,
As I walk the path of my story.
“Let slow do what slow does best: nourish, strengthen, & hold.” Emily P. Freeman~Simply Tuesday
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest;
even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
Psalms 65:11 NLT
Abundance, blessing, they run deep through this. The slow, a delight to savor.
Gifts of Grace
Tammy Mashburn
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Your post makes me want to stay in my jammies all day and sip coffee whilst reading good books :). But it’s not my season to do that ;). I’ll be painting my classroom and then taking student mountain biking in Sedona–active relaxation!
In the slow, I found sustaining … Beautiful words. I agree with Anita! I would love to stay in with a good book and a warm drinkie.
Let slow do what slow does best…nurture, strengthen, and hold…WOW! I don’t do slow well. I need to learn to before I am forced to… Thank you!
I love SLOW…my weekdays are so FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I seem to go between extremes…praying for balance.
Me too, Friend! Thank you for stopping by Gifts of Grace!
XO
Tammy
Love the advice you are giving all. S L O W l do not use this word hardly ever. I find my
slow reading your Blogs. They are precious. Thanks for slowing down your Mom. (At Times)
So proud of you,
Mom
We’ve had to adopt slow in our family, and it’s hard at first, but then there is so much which is rich and beautiful too. I hope that you had a beautiful slow sabbath.
Yes, it very much transforms to something rich and beautiful. Thank you for stopping by.
XO
Tammy