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October 8 - October 16, 2023
How often do we call escapism “fun”?
What are we missing that makes us feel its loss?
That buzz you get from a glass of wine won’t get it back. His hand around your waist, while it feels awesome, doesn’t return to you what you’ve lost. Even the best day lined up from start to finish still leaves you wondering if it’s all going to crash down around you tomorrow.
We have lost Eden, we have lost peace, we have lost the foundation upon which genuine fun can be built. And we have to go search for it.
If we have to walk into our pain on the way to Eden, then so be it. Let’s rebuild a foundation that used to exist just under our feet, so we can add layer upon layer of the good stuff, the heartbeats, the loud laughs, the tears of joy.
I miss thinking about nothing.
I THINK when we go looking for fun what we are actually looking for is home. We are looking for peace. We are looking for simplicity, something to fill that spot that has been left by growing up or growing out or moving on. While we think we want fun, what we really want is Eden.
If you let God gift you a glimpse of Eden, He will.
It matters that we talk about how to find fun in a life that doesn’t always go the way we think it will.
It ends. It always does.
To know what sounds fun to you, what uniquely brings a level of joy and peace and simple rest to your heart, is what reminds you that God’s journey for your life includes glimpses of Eden that show up in smile lines on your face and laughter that sounds just like you and art made from your unique spot on this planet.
The voice of fear says it is better to say nothing at all than to speak up and risk saying something unprofessional or offensive.
turn your fun into profit, suddenly you have a business, not a hobby.
some things are just meant to be fun. Some things are meant to stay amateur level for us. Some things are meant to teach us and grow us and bring us joy, not income. But there are other times when being an amateur is the first step in walking toward the thing that brings us joy AND income, brings God honor, changes lives, and feels like we’re suddenly 100 percent right where we are supposed to be.
It wasn’t the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, but maybe I don’t want the pot of gold.
Fun is never meant to replace pain, or better said, fun will never replace pain. But fun can walk alongside it. You can hold them both and see what happens when they dance together.
There are losses that no one else sees, grieving that is so deeply private, that while the rest of your life could look right in space and place, you know profoundly that Eden is lost.
whether I liked it or not, my heart is absolutely positioned on my sleeve for all to see.
The people I am with have no question about where I want to be.
You want to learn to have fun? FALL IN LOVE. Fall in love over and over every day with something and maybe someone.
“You are so worthy of being chosen by a good, healthy man.”
I am surprised when God answers. Isn’t that dumb?
To me, that’s the highest sign of integrity—when you experience the same person being the same person in multiple environments.
