Hello, friends!✨
September was a gem…
They’ll tell you that arts and humanities aren’t practical and then read poetry at funerals and weddings, cry over films and search for meaning in ancient philosophy. Surviving is one type of practicality, knowing why we bother is another.
– on the importance of the arts and humanities
Things worth remembering…
- playing music with my youngest sisters
- fixing a dresser drawer (#powerful)
- a cute pumpkin and flower farm
- enjoying chai again
- catching up with an old friend
- getting my braces off (!!!)
- biting into an apple for the first time in YEARS
- gorgeous sunrises and sunsets
- chats about surrender
- the gospel preached many times over at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service
- the sobering reminder to not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ✨
- riding with siblings in farm equipment
- the Great Eggy Microwave Explosion
- surviving way too many stairs
- the overwhelming gentleness of God
Apart from sin, we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.
A.W. Tozer
What I’ve been reading…
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
I finished reading this book this September…it got five stars from me.✨
Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
“You’ve put your foot in it now, old boy!…” And Dolly laughed so heartily that a spoonful of ice flew upon the head of a lady sitting below him, and got him into a scrape also.
Ahh, I’m so enjoying this one. I don’t know that I’ll like it quite as much as Little Men, but getting to see the children from that book grow up and find their way in the world has been so much fun.
Now and Not Yet – Ruth Chou Simons
It’s the boring, everyday fruitfulness that makes a life.
This book has been on my TBR ever since it came out, and I’m finally getting to it. God’s timing is impeccable…this is a very applicable (and convicting) read right now, and it will definitely make my list of favorites. I highly recommend it.
Choose prayer. Choose courage. Choose beauty. Choose adventure. Choose family. Choose a life of faith. Most importantly, choose Christ.
Erika kirk
From the journal…
Lord Jesus, You are my portion…may I ever see the richness of that!
Be most beautiful to me, Jesus.
This is enough…to be seen and chosen and cherished by the One Who handcrafted me for His glory and pleasure, for such a time as this. Help me to trust Your heart when I cannot see the significance of these days and circumstances. Keep me so very close to You. Don’t let me poke artificial fruit onto my branches, but abide, deeply delighting in You, day after day after day. Give me the discipline and desire to abide in You when the siren calls are loud. Glorify Your name in me.
Father, thank You for the gift of Your Spirit. Constant companionship, comfort, intercession when I don’t have the strength or the words…what a gift it is.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
❤ Laurel
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