One Lydia's Life

This is a digital junk journal of me walking out my goals for my 29th trip around the sun. onelydiaslife.weebly.com

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[thenordroom]

A Vintage Colorful Family Home in the Swedish Countryside

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what are you thankful for?

[wisterianwoman]

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It is 75 degrees outside

It was sunny

The leopards were so close

The kids are old enough to not give me anxiety in large crowded places.

I have a car that works

There were lots of snacks

The animals were out and moving around

I get to spend time with my kids on a Monday during the day

I have healthy kids

I get to spend a week close to all my favorite places

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Be a Lydia / Acts 16

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12.24.23

I had an epiphany today -

We don't have to make the *most* of every moment.

We can nap without an alarm on a sunny Sunday afternoon and not go to the park or whatever else would make the day somehow a better use of my time.

I don't HAVE to plan the outing. If someone wants to do something, they will. It isn't always on me to curate the perfect day.

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Sylvia Plath, from “ The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”

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i've been inspired by this song "Knight on the Moon- John Lordwood" recently. there's just something very melancholy about it, but in a mysterious way that builds into these intense moments of battle or rescue or something (the beginning leading up to 2:50 and also 6:27 onward).

this is the story of the Gospel, but i hope it's in a way that makes you see it with fresh eyes. the God of the universe, the vast cosmos, saw our sin and our suffering, and loved us enough to come down Himself. He was born as a human and experienced the joys and sorrows that we experienced. the devil is the temporary ruler on Earth and everyone is born under his rule, whether they know it or not. but Jesus paid the ransom for us, to move us into His own Kingdom. He gave His life so that we could be freed from those chains forever.

every pain you've experienced, every sadness that feels like it will finally swallow you whole; Jesus experienced that personally. He doesn't watch sympathetically from afar, He stands and cries with you, knowing just what you're feeling. He loved you enough to give His very life to give you hope. strength can be found in Him, and freedom, and joy. He is the ONLY way to be saved, not only from the consequences of your sins, but from the doom of living in a fallen world. the fallen world won't last forever though, He will soon remake it new. decide for yourself what kingdom you want to be part of.

"Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: 'Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?' For sin is the thing that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:54-57)

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Every year for my birthday, I pick a "theme" and this year it's "present". Staying in the present for myself and for my children. I have goals that tie into that and a mission to take every day, one at a time.

It's been going well. But man, I can feel the devil coming for me hard today. I rebuke him in the mighty name of Jesus!! If you would please pray that I am able to see through the deception and focus on God today so I can stay in the present with my babies and myself, I'd so appreciate it 💜

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