How was your day?

[stunnedbygrace]

I think I am an ambivert. But lately, I just like keeping to just me and my husband.

My new favorite nighttime routine is tea, journaling, and relaxing music.

I journal all the time. I put everything on paper in great detail that I’m struggling with and at some point, just putting it down, sometimes over and over again, leads to the most amazing insights and understandings. Some of the pages are wrinkled from tears of frustration and some are wrinkled from tears of gratitude.

 

[Wynona]

I journal all the time. I put everything on paper in great detail that I’m struggling with and at some point, just putting it down, sometimes over and over again, leads to the most amazing insights and understandings. Some of the pages are wrinkled from tears of frustration and some are wrinkled from tears of gratitude.

How long have you been journaling?

I started just writing in an app. But now I write with pen in a school five-subject notebook. There's something about pen on paper that provides therapy for me.

I have a beautiful Van Gogh journal waiting for me once I finish this current one.

Journaling is one of the few things that allows me to focus on the present moment and my surroundings. It helps me clear my head.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

I remember in the early days of the "fast-food" restaurants they had price wars for hamburgers just like the price wars for gasoline. Those who could afford it sold hamburgers at a loss in order to drive competitors out of business. One of the big winners, of course, was McDonalds! How many hamburgers does one get for a dollar at McDonalds today?

None. Haha! They had a dollar menu but that went the way of the dinosaurs maybe…three years ago? Suddenly their dollar menu became a $1.19 menu, now it’s more like a $2 menu. The big thing in sales now is 2 for $6. A fish sandwich is now about $5.

 

[amadeus]

You used to be able to get a McChicken for a dollar. Ive never eaten a hamburger from McDonalds.

You haven't missed a whole lot. My wife has always had better taste buds than me so we avoided McDonald's when we went out for hamburgers.

During the price wars I remember paying 15 cents for a hamburger at Henry's one of the competitors during that war.

Shortly after my marriage [1972] we were usually paying about 35 cents at places like Foster's Old Fashioned Freeze in California.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

How long have you been journaling?

I started just writing in an app. But now I write with pen in a school five-subject notebook. There's something about pen on paper that provides therapy for me.

I have a beautiful Van Gogh journal waiting for me once I finish this current one.

Journaling is one of the few things that allows me to focus on the present moment and my surroundings. It helps me clear my head.

Ive been journaling for…15 or 16 years. Yes, it becomes therapy and aha moments that let you move onward. God is certainly there in the journaling! Mostly my journaling in the beginning was the constant writing of all my bitter frustrations. It still is sometimes but it’s become more of a discovery process now. It’s definitely a right brained thing.

I mostly use the 5 subject big notebooks but when I find a good journal for cheap I almost can’t wait to fill up my old one so I can use it. And the right pen is very important to me for some reason. I used to save all my journals but now I throw them away when insight fully comes on a thing. When I have moved on from it, there’s no reason really to keep over a decades worth of them.

 

[Wynona]

Another awesome day with the Lord.

A wake-up-early-and-walk kind of day for me.

I helped load up hubby's truck with food so he doesn't have to eat out all the time. So far, so good with that. Father's day is this Sunday.

 

[Wynona]

Getting nostalgic for fall fashion already.

 

[farouk]

Getting nostalgic for fall fashion already.

@Wynona Oh don't wish away the summer already......

There's lots that some of us wish to do, by God's grace, before the fall arrives......

 

[Wynona]

Was productive today. Am fasting from spending so no trips to the thrift store lately.

Have a lot of reading to catch up on. Am reading The Story of Britain which is about British history.

I also have a DVD about the history of Scotland and a Larry Elder book called 10 things You Can't Say in America.

 

[Wynona]

@stunnedbygrace Did your handwriting improve with time? Mine is... passable.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

@stunnedbygrace Did your handwriting improve with time? Mine is... passable.

Hah! No. The worse my arthritis gets the worse my handwriting gets, but luckily God doesn’t have a problem with it. He knows what I’m struggling with and writing about before I even write it! And no one else reads my journals so it doesn’t matter.

 

[Lambano]

Journaling is one of the few things that allows me to focus on the present moment and my surroundings. It helps me clear my head.

Definitely helps me keep my thoughts in order.

I keep mine in a password-protected file on my computer. That way I keep my inner stuff between me God.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Definitely helps me keep my thoughts in order.

I keep mine in a password-protected file on my computer. That way I keep my inner stuff between me God.

There are letters and notes and journal type things from many old saints that I have got such help from. I’m glad they didn’t have password protected computers way back then!

 

[Lambano]

There are letters and notes and journal type things from many old saints that I have got such help from.

Unfortunately, mine contains confessions of my many sins and doubts and struggles, which I would prefer not to share with snooping eyes. Not even posthumously, much less while I'm still alive.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Unfortunately, mine contains confessions of my many sins and doubts and struggles, which I would prefer not to share with snooping eyes, not even posthumously, much less while I'm still alive.

I understand. But just think if Paul’s great sin was not recorded for us, that he helped to murder Christians. I think it has helped many a man to see it and to see the great forgiveness and mercy and grace of God toward us. But I do understand.

 

[bbyrd009]

10 things You Can't Say in America

id be interested in a review of that one, or some highlights

 

[Lambano]

I understand. But just think if Paul’s great sin was not recorded for us, that he helped to murder Christians. I think it has helped many a man to see it and to see the great forgiveness and mercy and grace of God toward us. But I do understand.

Nor would we have Psalm 51 if it weren't for David's sin. But I'm still keeping mine between me and God.

 

[bbyrd009]

There are letters and notes and journal type things from many old saints that I have got such help from. I’m glad they didn’t have password protected computers way back then!

reading your own five year old, or i guess even one year old stuff can be revealing too

 

[Lambano]

reading your own five year old, or i guess even one year old stuff can be revealing too

Some of my stuff goes back 20 years.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

reading your own five year old, or i guess even one year old stuff can be revealing too

oh my goodness yes! I read them again before I throw them out. Occasionally, I rip a page out here or there to keep, but mostly, reading them a gain a few years later shows me how He was always working.