Tag: Rest
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An Un-Celebrated Christmas
I never got into the Christmas spirit this year. It’s Christmas Eve, and I still have not. We didn’t put up a tree. We didn’t take out a single decoration. I didn’t write a Christmas card to anyone, at all. There are a lot of reasonable reasons for these things: we moved, we’ve been busy, and…
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A Season of Rest: Routine
I created a draft for this back in September when I first posted about my “Season of Rest.” I had the idea that it would be a series all about what I learned about myself as I took time to slow down, to savor life. You can read the words I wrote in that initial…
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A Season of Rest: A Weekend Away
I often find that when I take a day “off,” I end up filling the day with other things that need to get done. Saturdays and Sundays, for me, routinely become catch-up days, where I take care of the laundry and the dishes and the unread emails and then get to the end of the…