I need to get caught up from the last few days (it's been a busy week), but today's TJM didn't really require words:
What was your joy moment?
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Today's Joy Moment--"Just Kidding"
Bug was on his way out the door to school this morning when he turned around, with all the seriousness a first-grader can muster.
"Happy Birthday," he said.
I blinked in surprise in response.
Then he dropped his chin, peered up from under his lashes while the left corner of his mouth crept up into his characteristic crooked grin.
"Just kidding!" and he skipped off to the car.
I love seeing his sense of humor develop--and knowing that he's aware that my birthday is actually tomorrow!
5 Minutes for Faith--Blind Man's Bluff
My dad lost an eye recently due to an infection that wouldn't heal and three (yes 3!) corneal transplants that wouldn't heal. Now he's got macular degeneration in his remaining eye. His field of vision grows smaller and fuzzier almost by the day. So he's having to find new ways of navigating in a world that he can see less and less of.My physical eyesight is ok (as much as it can be 'for my age'), but we're walking through one of those valleys (or, as Holley Gerth described today, an alley) that is rather narrow and kind of dark and next to impossible to see where the next footstep will fall. I can empathize with my dad's circumstances from a spiritual perspective. I blogged about it today at 5 Minutes for Faith. Would love it if you'd hop over and check it out.
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Today's Joy Moment--A Listening Ear
Do you have days where you feel like no one really listens to you? (If you're a mom with small kids I know you do!) I have enough of them that I don't really pay much attention to the fact, but every once in a while, when someone really listens, it stands out. Today was one of those days. Hubs was meeting with someone and I had the chance to stop by and say hello. I wasn't supposed to stay--I didn't intend to stay. But he asked a couple of well-timed, pointed questions and actually listened to my answers. It was lovely.
But even more than that (other writers will get this part especially), he asked specifically about projects I'm working on. And he got excited about them. And really engaged me in conversation about them. That was a big joy moment for me. Those moments tend to be isolated to the couple of writers conferences I go to every year (and it's months until the next one!). It was a unique pleasure to talk writing to someone who isn't part of that world, but was genuinely interested.
Has someone given you a sincere listening ear lately? What was your Joy Moment today?
Today's Joy Moment
Working on the first BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) lesson for the year.
Looking forward to getting to know Jesus better through the eyes of John.
Grateful that God, His love and His word are consistent even (especially?) when others/circumstances are not.
What was your joy moment today?
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