One Thousand Gifts

So, I am currently blogging from Maryland. :) It's very relaxing and quiet here. I'm at my grandparents house and basically just chillin'...you know. So I thought I would blog.

I just started a new book yesterday called One Thousand Gifts.
It took some getting used to but I think I'm starting to like it. I've been wanting to read it and the library copy is constanly out, BUT a friend at camp has it and is letting me borrow it.

In the book, Ann, the author, describes how virtually everything good springs from gratitude.. and in a season in her life when she is feeling particularly unfulfilled she starts a list of 1,000 gifts from God. It's kind of like the idea I started on my blog but she kept actual journals handy all the time and kept the list going. I want to do it! She talked about how much joy she began to feel just by looking for all the gifts we have to be thankful for.

Here of some of the quotes that I really like so far:

"oh yes, I know you. the busyness of your life leaving little room for the SOURCE of your life. ...God gives us time and who has time for God? Which makes no sense." p.64

"Hurry always empties the soul" p.67

"I only live life to the full when I live fully in every moment. And when I'm always looking for the next glimpse of glory, I slow and enter. And time slows. Weigh down this moment in time with attention full, and the whole of time's river slows, slows, slows." p.68

"Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the mircale of multiplying happens when I give thanks..."

"I am thank-full, I am time-full."

"Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living." p.84

Book review?

Okay, I already blogged today. But I'm reading this book right now that I really like. :)
It reminds me of reading a blog.

It's called "Bittersweet". I would recommend it. She talks mostly about her life and gives her own little insights into things. She doesn't talk THAT much about God but she makes me think about the things in life that are really important.

He are a few quotes from it that I really like:

"When you do what you love with people who love the same thing, something is born into your midst, and (it) begins to connect you"

"When you walk with someone, listen to their story, carry their burden, play with their kids, that's community. Wherever you find it, it's always a gift"

"We were made to live connected and close. So walk across the street, or drive across town, or fly across the country, but don't let really intimate loving friendships become the last item on a to-do list. Because there is really nothing like good friends, like the sounds of their laughter and the tones of their voices and the things they teach us in the quietest, smallest moments."

So if you're lookin' for a good read, check it out. :)

PS: Tomorrow I've been blogging for a WHOLE year! Whoopee!!