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The Simple Woman's Daybook (April 2024 Edition)

 For Today

Looking out my window... 
the first signs of Spring.

I am thinking... 
how nice to be able to open the windows, even for a little while.

I am thankful... 
to be returning to the Simple Woman blog and to finally have a working subscription box on the sidebar. Please subscribe if you wish to receive my posts directly emailed to you.

One of my favorite things... 
this sign I found at Hobby Lobby. I knew instantly it would come home with me and sit on top of the mantel in the great room.

I am wearing...
gray wide-leg capris that are so soft, a dark cornflower blue knit top and my house moccasins.

I am creating...
a packing list for my monthly retreat. I head out in the morning to a lovely B&B to soak in some quiet time. This month it will be over my birthday which it even sweeter.

I am watching... 
Little House On The Mountain

I am reading... 
the winter issue of Victoria. I always enjoy their first issue of the year and this one was so good. The theme was keeping a journal and writing letters, one I do every single day and one I wish I did.

I feel sad this beautiful way of communication has fallen by the wayside...just one more thing we have sacrificed on the altar of technology. Yes, I can throw a text out there adding a cute smiley face with the best of them, but to what loss?

And to think there will be a generation attending public school who do not know how to cursive write, that is beyond comprehension.

As someone who loves the personal way that cursive writing feels coming out of a special pen and onto the grit of a pretty piece of paper I find that harmful for our children, but maybe that is just me.

In the Writer-In-Residence article Jennifer L. Scott says, "But I allowed myself to record these everyday occurrences, trusting in the process. After all, I enjoyed looking back at my old journal from childhood and the "mundane" things I wrote about back then. I smiled, thinking that one day my life will look very different from how it looks now and that the quotidian tasks I do around the house might seem special through the lens of time and age. In other words, the entries were only mundane if I believed them to be so."

Ahhh, the 'mundane'...lovely word and for those who enjoy the beauty of the mundane or as I call it, "where every day is a blank page", there is a treat returning. 
{see below to join me}

I am listening to... Oh! This one! 

In the garden... 
very soon a flurry of activity that will be unending

In the kitchen...
hot tea with scones

 

Words of Others

"Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work."
Deep  Work 
Cal Newport

A moment from my day...

Post Script

If there has to be commercials, here's hoping for more like this one.

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🔆The Light Of The World 🌙

{taken last summer}

We know how it reads, but in light (no pun intended) of today's eclipse let's look at it through different glasses and slowly this time.  

So turn to Genesis, Chapter 1 verses 3-5, there it says,  

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

and now look down to verses 14-18

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

A few days ago I wrote the following in my daily journal,

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"This morning there is the sweetest sliver of moon hanging within the branches of the big Beech tree outside my window. The rain we have had for 4 full days is finally over. 
I think of all the excitement that the upcoming eclipse will cause. The moon will align with the sun and shadow it's light. This display in the heavens should naturally give way to praising the creator, but many will never give any thought to the reverence of the creator. How our God took "form and void" and nothingness and set to creating the heavens and the earth.

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Look up Psalm 8:3, see where David writes,

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them."

{photo credit unknown}

Today, when we ponder this act of creation, let us think of how God is putting His artistry on display for our pleasure. So, as I sit here to finish this post I pray that many would come to the Lord and put their trust and faith in thee light of the world, our Living God!

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

John 8:12