"currently"

 

Happy Wednesday, friends! I'm writing a bonus post today, since I had already scheduled one for today earlier this week. If you'd like to see that post, you can click here. I'm linking up with Anne from In Residence for this blog post. Here is what I'm currently consuming, feeling, finding, following and spending. 

Consuming:

I'm coming off a week long stomach flu, so I'm not consuming much, if I'm honest. I have trust issues with food now and I am just barely easing back into eating again. In the last week I've consumed only things I could tolerate, like oatmeal, toast, plain baked chicken, rice, bananas, applesauce and for some odd reason, pistachios. In my normal and healthy version of life, I've been loving little packs of guacamole for a snack with a few tortilla chips. I also normally cannot get enough of hummus and carrots or celery. I love little snack type lunches in where I eat little bits of several things. 

This would be a good example of my favorite type of lunch. Another thing I can't ever get enough is Mexican food. 

Feeling:

At the moment I'm feeling excited, because my husband and I are leaving in a couple of hours for Nashville for just one night. The short version of the story is that we're going for him to get an award for saving a life earlier last year. It's not just him getting the Star of Life award, but all the first responders  who were on the call that night. It's an honor for him to get this and it's a "company trip", meaning we're not paying a dime for anything while we're gone.

Come back Friday and read more about it!

Finding:

I've been finding motivation to get things done. Sometimes I seriously lack in this area of life and I only do enough to just get by. Do you do that? It's like I'm burned out or something, which is not a feeling that I enjoy. I'm thankful to be moving past this. Along with this, I also always find lots of time to read.

Following:

One of my favorite social media accounts that I'm following is Sally Clarkson. I love her podcasts, her Instagram posts and the book by her I'm currently reading.

Spending:

I've been spending lots of time with the Lord each morning. I seem to get into ruts with prayer time pretty frequently, but now is not such a time, for which I'm grateful. I have this routine about my mornings each day—I wake up around five and spend the first hour of my day drinking cup of coffee number one and reading blogs, emails, and social media (for no longer than five minutes). At six thirty, I get up to make Noah his lunch for the day and coffee that he takes to work, I pull out things for the rest of their lunches, then I get my second cup of coffee and drink it while I pray. I almost always spend at least 30 minutes in prayer with Him, which may seem like a lot, but really isn't. The time flies by and sometimes more time than that goes by. I read a wonderful book on this last year that I plan on reading again. It's called How to Develop a Powerful Prayer Life by Dr. Gregory R. Frizzell. (Click on the title for the book.) It's a short, very impactful and practical book on the topic of prayer that my pastor recommended. He taught a class on this last year that I took.

Well, thanks for reading my blog, friends! Love to all.