The more you blame and try to make everyone else change, the less responsibility you take
Brad Meltzer
This week, much of my heart and prayers have been focused on Ukraine and friends who are missionaries to Ukraine.
This week was my birthday. I had two very cool memories pop up in FB. The first was that on my birthday, 8 years ago, my boss called me to offer me a full time job. I’m still there, although our company was bought by another company. I still enjoy what I do and the people I work with.
The second memory was from my best friend in college. It was a post from 2012 where she reminded me about a great story from college. Not long after we met each other, she was going through her scrapbook and found a clipping of a poem that she had saved because it spoke to her. She showed me the poem. Turns out I was the author. She had always wanted to meet me and before she had even realized, we were becoming the best of friends.
I love this story of how God connected two young ladies from across the world, one from Louisiana, the other from Nigeria via a poem and a Baptist University in Arkansas. (I scanned a copy of my clipping below)
From Michael Card: The Final Word
“You and me, we use so very many clumsy words
The noise of what we often say is not worth being heard
When the Father’s wisdom wanted to communicate His love
He spoke it in one final perfect word”
I’m trying something new this year. I got the idea from someone else and I like it because it lines up with one of the Enneagram Type 5 traits that I have of being a collector of information. I had so many comments when I shared about the books I read this year that I decided it might be fun to share in this brief way what I’ve been thinking on/reading on each week. It makes me happy to have an archive and anyone who wants to follow can be updated too. So here goes my first “issue” of e5 Download
Currently Reading
Interesting Reads
Podcasts of Interest
Miscellaneous of Note