In recent days, as my life journey unfolds, I am continuously drawn to anything that sounds like:
REST
SILENCE
SOLITUDE
MARGIN
PEACE
QUIET
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I listen to a great weekly podcast called The unQuiet Life. Well they are going to be doing daily ADVENT Podcasts! I'm so excited! During the busy holiday season I definitely need some help with rest, peace, quiet and margin! Be sure to sign up for them at
One way I create Inner Rest, Inner Quiet and Inner Margin is through my Art Journaling.
I often use it to focus on one word that I am reflecting on. Initially, I wanted to put a black accent line around the edge of the page like I did on the blue square an the magenta square. But I decided to resist filling in the "margin" of this page as a way to remind myself to not always fill up every bit of margin in my life!
So...... even though there are a million books I want to read or re-read, I will choose not to feel RUSHED. I will read them as I can. (Note: the thin black book at the bottom of the stack that does not have a title on it is "Unquiet Time: A Devotional For the Rest of Us" by Heather Caliri. And the top "book" is not a book, it is a DVD called Be Still about contemplative prayer.)
As God opens up little snippets of time here and there. I will be focusing on "Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are" by Shauna Niequist as a daily devotional. And "Found: A Story of Questions, Grace & Everyday Prayer" by Micha Boyett and Ann Voskamp. Here is a quote about Found:
"With this beautiful book, Micha Boyett opens a door to Benedictine spirituality
through which regular, busy people can enter and taste, see, smell, hear, and
feel what it means to live life as a prayer."
RACHEL HELD EVANS, author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Watch for a new section on my resource page coming soon for links and more information about all these books as well as blogs I follow, and podcasts I listen to.
Leigh Ann
