Sharing Our Spoons Week #5

Sharing Our Spoons is a weekly link-up for those of us with chronic illnesses where we support and encourage each other in a holistic way by focusing on five goals each week. The five goal areas are: Physical, Mental/Emotional, Spiritual, Something fun, and BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone each week. We'll be linking up on Tuesdays. We'd love to have you join us.



My Goals From Week 4:
1. Physical: Continue decreasing the amount of cokes I drink with the plans of eventually being off of them (again!).
Didn't have a single coke this past week! And my water intake has increased even more because of it!

2. Mental/Emotional: Begin knitting a sweater for myself (first sweater I've ever knitted) as well as working on the sample afghan for the shop plus my other projects.
Finished knitting 3 gifts (I'll share photos after they are gifted) plus have only about 10 rows left until I'm done with both sleeves for my sweater.

3. Spiritual: Continue reading/journaling You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be - at least 2 chapters this week.
Doing great with this. Already looking forward to the next book.

4. Something fun: Pinterest project.
Done & you'll see what I did here on my blog tomorrow.

5. BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week: Begin investigating what is involved in opening an Etsy shop.
Talked with a friend about designing some graphics for my shop & have started brainstorming possible projects to sell.



My Week 5 Goals:
1. Physical: Work on getting to bed before midnight every night.
2. Mental/Emotional: Continue knitting on my sweater as well as working on the sample afghan for the shop.
3. Spiritual: Continue reading/journaling You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be - last 3 chapters this week.
4. Something fun: Have something fun planned but can't share because someone might see this. I'll share what we did next week.
5. BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week: Continue working on plans to open an Etsy shop.

Your turn! Our host Jamee from A New Kind of Normal is out of commission this week so if you are Sharing Our Spoons, make sure and tweet your link with the #sos hashtag so we can find each other. You can also join the Facebook Sharing Our Spoons group by clicking here.

A Prayer for Today

Holy, holy, holy God,
in calling forth creation from the void,
revealing yourself in human flesh,
and pouring forth your wisdom to guide us,
you manifest your concern for your whole universe.
You invite us, as your people,
to gather the world's needs into our hearts
and bring them before you.
Holy, holy, holy God,
fill us with strength and courage,
with discernment and compassion,
that we may be your instruments of justice and love in this world, that it may be on earth as it is in heaven.
Amen.



Prayer & Image Credit

Be now.

See

Linking up today with Five Minute Friday where you write for 5 minutes about the word for today and then publish without editing or perfecting.

Today's word:
SEE

Start

See...

Pink

Yarn

Needles

Knit

Sweater

New

Inexperienced

Adventure

Challenge

See...

Words

Sentences

Pictures

Faces

Stories

Journey

Community

See...

Me

Here

You

There

Us

Together

Join

Entwine

See...

Alone

Not

Talk

Laugh

Joy

Silly

Friend

See...

Change

See...

Change

See...

Change!

See...

Me!

Stop



What about you? What do you have to say about see in 5 minutes? If you link up, let me know. I'd love to read your post.

Sharing Our Spoons Week #4

Sharing Our Spoons is a weekly link-up for those of us with chronic illnesses where we support and encourage each other in a holistic way by focusing on five goals each week. The five goal areas are: Physical, Mental/Emotional, Spiritual, Something fun, and BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone each week. We'll be linking up on Tuesdays. We'd love to have you join us.



My Goals From Week 3:
1. Physical: Begin decreasing the amount of cokes I drink with the plans of eventually being off of them (again!).
Only had 2 cokes the entire week. Yay me! Want to get completely off them.

2. Mental/Emotional: Knit at least 7 more little hats (or as many as I can make with the yarn I have left).
Finished 11 little hats this past week and have another one on the needles. I only have enough yarn left to finish the one on the needles and possibly 1 more. I'm ready to be done with them. I've knitted 21 total!

3. Spiritual: Continue reading/journaling You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be - at least 2 chapters this week.
Actually completed 3 chapters this week. Yay me!

4. Something fun: Lunch date with former seminary classmate/friend.
My friend had to cancel at the last minute so instead, Damaris and I went out to lunch and then to the yarn store for some knitting/conversation after her doctor's appointment.

5. BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week: Edit article and submit it for possible publication as a guest post.
Article is edited and has been submitted. Now I'm just waiting to hear if they want to publish it.



My Week 4 Goals:
1. Physical: Continue decreasing the amount of cokes I drink with the plans of eventually being off of them (again!).
2. Mental/Emotional: Begin knitting a sweater for myself (first sweater I've ever knitted) as well as working on the sample afghan for the shop plus my other projects.
3. Spiritual: Continue reading/journaling You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be - at least 2 chapters this week.
4. Something fun: Pinterest project.
5. BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week: Begin investigating what is involved in opening an Etsy shop.

Your turn! Come link up with us as we Share Our Spoons.

A Prayer for Today

Empowering God,
you gave the church
the abiding presence of your Holy Spirit.
Look upon your church today and hear our petitions.
Grant that, gathered and directed by your Spirit,
we may confess Christ as Lord
and combine our diverse gifts with a singular passion
to continue his mission in this world
until we join in your eternal praise.
Amen.



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