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Everyday Resilience In Christ

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The Happiness Hack

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November 7, 2018

I was trapped. Trapped by gratitude.

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Categories: Emotional Tools, Mommy Brain Collective•Tags: Catalyst, Challenge, Change, Christian, Dare, featured, God, Grateful, Happiness, Happy, Jesus, MOPS, Texts, Thankful•

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Just a normal morning taking notes about my favorite subject -resilience - while doing the dishes in my roller skates. You know, just whatevs... . . . #resilience #cleaning #dishes #multitasking #rollerskates #rollerderby #writermom #writersofig #writersofinstagram #morninglove #stephlenox

Spending time outdoors with Old Red, my trusty Chromebook, to give the blog a little design refresh (read: total overhaul) after an extended leave of neglect. It's like rearranging my whole house of furniture, without the back strain. First, you strip it down to put it in the right order. Then, fill it with new, beloved content. So...basically just like life. There are new developments, scary new subject matter that, as I share, may help you connect, and find your everyday resilience in Christ. This is my hope. As I read in my Writer's Digest yesterday: "Everything Is Material." . . . #webdesign #redesign #redecorating #virtualhousekeeping #amdesigning #chromebook #everythingismaterial #writersofig #writersofinstagram #stephlenox

And so it begins. Coffee grounds steeping fragrantly, children squealing and yelling in the other room, joints sore and tired. Still I rise. It begins for groceries and laundry. For cooking and parenting. For writing and reading and noticing the details. What does your day begin for? . . . #andsoitbegins #morninglove #coffee #allthecoffee #coffeelove #amwriting #writersofig #writersofinstagram #stephlenox

Miner's Lettuce: the tender green hiking snack of spring. . . . #springlove #minerslettuce #hiking #outsidelove #writersofig #writersofinstagram #stephlenox

We are so fancy. This guy looks so good, it inspires me to keep up on myself. He would never say that I needed to. He swears that when I'm old and fat, he will enjoy every single love handle. Hrm, a more truthful compliment one could not receive. Yet the fairytale conditioning I've had winces at our coming age and decay. Thus, he becomes more gallant in my eyes: facing our future with a steady gaze. Raised a country boy, he understands cycles of life and death, and has seen love breathe it's last breath more than once. I take my cue from him, and kiss his hairline. For now, we are so fancy. We wake up both young and old. The more miles of track I lay with him, the more I can see of our direction and meaning. And the more I understand that each day is frought with choices to move together, or apart. I'm scared how delicate love is, in opposition to our boorish selfish tendencies. I do not behave myself. Nobody does. Jesus must be our glue. Jesus is MY heart's glue. His love for me is bigger than my pushback to Him. And being treated thus, I can treat my husband, my children, thus. We will not always be so fancy. But we will always be laying more track. We will choose daily to move together or apart. Time will tear at our bodies and sharpen our senses to the bedrock of matters. I love being fancy, but more than that, I love hewing wisdom out of life, and I absolutely love belonging: to my husband, and to my God. . . . #fancy #marriage #age #aging #choices #love #time #lifeanddeath #god #writersofig #writersofinstagram #stephlenox

Trying to capture the lovely purples and silvers of my overgrown lavender bush thus spring. Oh the wonderous outcomes of regularly watering something! . . . #springlove #outsidelove #lavender #naturetherapy #amwatering #writersofig #writersofinstagram #gardenlove #stephlenox

Steph Lenox

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