A Smattering of Thought

I want… I need… How would you finish these beginnings of a sentence?  How do you think your neighbor would finish the sentence? What about the person on the other side of town? The other side of the state? The other side of the country? The other side of the world? We live in a country where the majority of us would probably finish those sentences with… …a new car. …a new, higher paying job. …a new house. …more education. …a spouse. …new clothes/phone/TV/etc. What if you lived in such a place where you finished the sentence with… …clean water. …fresh food. …medicine for simple illnesses. …two sets of clothes. …basic education. Beyond how we finish the sentence, maybe our shift needs to be on how we begin the sentence.  What if we began each sentence with… We want… We need… In the USA, we have much more than we really need.  Yes, I know we pair back and purge our things, but even then, we still have more and have access to more things that...

Wow…it has been a while since I’ve written a post, I am a huge slacker!!  I have started several times to write an update, pen something profound or even a try my hand at a limerick, but to no avail, nothing! I have recently been reading a book with some friends called Love Does by Bob Goff.  It is a very easy read with lots of stories and keeps you very engaged.  The premise of the book is really about acting out God’s love in the world around us, through involvement, relationship and interaction.  A life lived with large amounts of “whimsy”.  I love words!  For those familiar with the love languages, one of my main ones is words of affirmation.  I keep meaningful cards from friends and family, I like to speak truth into people’s lives and even write out prayers at various times in order to make them seem more meaningful or permanent.  Therefore, when I read books, I am all about the words.  I ingest them like morsels of food, chew...

Can we equally enjoy the journey and the destination?  In a quest to see if I maybe I was alone in my thinking of such crazy things, I posted an impromptu & informal survey on Facebook.  While some responses did not surprise me {sorry Meagan} a few caused me to chuckle.  They tried to justify why they liked both or why they were a certain way but really thought the opposite. Those who answered destination seemed to apologize rather than celebrate.  Personally, I think both are equally important and both should be celebrated.  Some destinations in life are huge milestones even though the journey was not thrilling or enjoyable.  There are some destinations that are a huge let-down once you arrive and most of the joy was in the journey that may or may not have been missed. You cannot reach your destination without the journey and if your journey has no destination, what is its point?  They both depend on each other to create an expe...