Sunday Blessings

1. Seeing all of my cute, Asians (and one little blond hair, blue-eyed boy) in my 3-yr. old Sunday school class.  I missed them.


2. Eating at Crepes de Paris in Brea with my small group after church.

Mark

Mark & Hiroko, my small group leaders

3. Exploring Brea with my dear friend, Susan.

(Brea is where our church is located)

And, eating French macaroons!  Yummy...


4. Going Thrift store shopping with the roommates.


5. Rearranging Tiffany's room...for hours.


6. Reading a great book (Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist).  (I also just finished The Healing Path by Dan Allender).  You should read BOTH.  The Healing Path is sort of life-changing.  One of the best books I've ever read, for sure.


Here's an inspiring excerpt from Cold Tangerines in regard to Waiting:

"But this is what I'm finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it.  This is it, in the best possible way.  That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-worthy experience unfolding gracefully.  This is it.  Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets -- this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.  

I believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open up the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of diamonds where a second ago there was coal.  This way of living and noticing and building and crafting can crack through the movie sets and soundtracks that keep us waiting for our own life stories to begin, and set us free to observe the lives we have been creating all along without even realizing it."

7. Shopping at the $.99 store (and buying a bunch of groceries...for under $15.00!)


8.  Organizing, organizing, organizing.


9.  Playing with Amadeus (our littlest roommate/puppy).


10.  Blogging!


What a terrific Sunday.  I am so thankful for every blessing in my life - big and small.