Celebrate This Week: A Sunday Morning Surprise!

                            Join us each weekend for Celebrate This Week with Ruth Ayres. 

                                                      When we pause to celebrate, we find the joy.

 

A week filled with moments to celebrate and remember!

A sprinkling of snow greeted me at 4:30 this morning. 

I was hopeful that we might have enough snow to cancel church. 

 I had a lesson to teach and hoped I might get to sleep in instead.  

My husband said my prayer should have been more specific.  

"Don't just ask for snow, ask for enough snow to cancel church."

But before I worked on my lesson, I penned a haiku to honor our snow:

A snowy Sabbath
A new year's soft beginning
Wintry white frosting!

It was lovely to share a discussion with

a group of women I love around the topic:  

"How do we feel the love of the Lord in our lives?" 

I came away enriched from our discussion

and so happy to worship and learn weekly

with these women whose examples inspire me.

I introduced the idea of One Little Word to them.  

We searched our scriptures for words and phrases that are

meaningful to our lives as women of faith.  

Here are some of the responses that were shared:

Light

Living water

Strength and honor

Real intent

Satisfied

Remember

Good word

Patience in afflictions

Receive

Trust in the Lord

Encircled in the arms of His love

Rejoice

This has been a full week of celebrations:

A visit from our dear friends, the Grahams 

A stop by the Yves St. Laurent exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum

Christmas story hour and treats with the Lundell girls and a friend

Pics and FaceTime and videos from Stefi and Blake of sweet Teddy

Teddy with Great Grandma

 

Family pic

Teddy's first snow!

I finished Ghost by Jason Reynolds and am now reading 

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk. Ghost was a great read. 

I wish I'd picked it for our Mock Newbery list.

I luxuriated in a pajama and movie day at home with daughter Sara. 

(Thanks, Allison, for introducing us to pajama days.)