{"id":6838,"date":"2015-03-02T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:32:00","slug":"the-simple-womans-daybook-march-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6838","title":{"rendered":"The Simple Woman&#8217;s Daybook: March 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grace-filled.net\/swdb\/swdb.jpg\" alt=\"Simple Woman's Daybook\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR TODAY<\/strong> March 1, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside my window&#8230;<\/strong> dark.  It&#8217;s technically past midnight and officially March 2nd but I&#8217;m doing this for March 1st.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am thinking&#8230;<\/strong> about some discussions I&#8217;ve been having with people on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\" title=\"Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am thankful&#8230;<\/strong> for so many things today but mostly that I have a church that supports me and who loves me because I am &#8220;Jen&#8221;, not because I&#8217;m &#8220;Jen the pastor&#8217;s wife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the kitchen&#8230;<\/strong> nothing at the moment as we&#8217;re all in bed.  I&#8217;ll be baking more cookies this week for the Lenten soup supper on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am wearing&#8230;<\/strong> my <a href=\"http:\/\/blessedwithfullhands.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/3rd-annual-run-for-little-flowers-5k.html\" title=\"Run for the Little Flowers 5K\">Run for the Little Flowers 5K<\/a> shirt and black sweats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am praying for&#8230;<\/strong> a full-time call for Jon, discernment for me, various special intentions,<br \/>\n and how to balance out our finances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am going&#8230;<\/strong> to hopefully get to sleep soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am wondering&#8230;<\/strong> what this week will hold for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am reading&#8230;<\/strong> <u>The Hen of the Baskervilles<\/u> by Donna Andrews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am hoping&#8230;<\/strong> to finish my amigurumi project this week and get it mailed off to the person for whom it is a gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am looking forward to&#8230;<\/strong> Wednesday night when we have midweek Lenten stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am hearing&#8230;<\/strong>  The Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox church of Antioch.  It&#8217;s relaxing to listen to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Around the house&#8230;<\/strong> silence. dead quiet.  It&#8217;s lovely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A favorite quote for today&#8230;<\/strong> &#8220;Before I became a Christian I do not think I fully realized that one\u2019s life, after conversion, would inevitably consist in doing most of the same things one had been doing before, one hopes, in a new spirit, but still the same things.&#8221; &#8212; C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of my favorite things&#8230;<\/strong> my in-laws&#8217; cat Felicity who is a tiny little fluffball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few plans for the rest of the week:<\/strong> work on taxes, church stuff on Wednesday, Daniel&#8217;s IEP on Thursday, BYOF day at <a href=\"http:\/\/ikea-usa.com\" title=\"IKEA\">IKEA<\/a> on Saturday, and whatever else comes up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A peek into my day&#8230;<\/strong>  So, I was confirmed today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnslaverne.org\/\" title=\"St. John's Episcopal Church, La Verne, California\">the Episcopal church that I&#8217;m attending<\/a> at the moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/confirmation1.jpg\" alt=\"The laying on of hands.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/confirmation2.jpg\" alt=\"Can you see Jon in his best clerical Hawaiian shirt? :)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/confirmation3.jpg\" alt=\"All of us who were being baptized\/confirmed\/received\/renewing Confirmation vows with the bishop and some clergy.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/confirmation4.jpg\" alt=\"Backside view of everyone laying on hands.  Since my parents and godparents weren't there, my choir jumped in to be my people.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplewoman.blogspot.com\/\">The Simple Woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR TODAY March 1, 2015 Outside my window&#8230; dark. It&#8217;s technically past midnight and officially March 2nd but I&#8217;m doing this for March 1st. I am thinking&#8230; about some discussions I&#8217;ve been having with people on Facebook. 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