As we approach the middle of the year, I look back and see the journal prompts have taken us in various directions. This week as I work on creating a workbook for my “Defeating the Lies of Negative Self-Talk” I am journaling the prompt asking me to face a lie I tell myself and replace…
Whether you have been journaling along all year or are taking your first step in to the weekly journal prompts, congratulations. I hope you find value in taking a few moments to sit back, clear your mind, and let your thoughts flow. This week’s journal prompt asks you to write about something you are really…
Do you ever walk away from a conversation thinking to yourself “if they only knew such-and-such about me”. That is at the center of this week’s journal prompt. Write about something you wish people knew about you, but you don’t want to tell them. Some of the directions this writing could go includes: What do…
I describe myself as a Recovering Perfectionist with a Type A personality and OCD tendancies. I struggle with finding ‘good enough’. When will I be good enough? Is it possible to be good enough. What if someone doesn’t think I am good enough? These questions haunt me, and as I have spoken with other women,…
I cannot believe it is already week 23 of 2019. Have you been following along with the journal prompts? This week week we look at peace. What is it? When do you feel peace? Jesus says He is giving up His peace (see John 14:27). Peace doesn’t mean there will be no difficulties or that…
We go through struggles and often get caught up in the chaos of life around us. It is sometimes possible to get caught up in this that we forget to celebrate the successes. Okay, let me reword that. Sometimes I get so caught up in the drama and chaos around me I forget there are…
I’ve not seen it actually happen, but it occurs a lot on TV dramas. Someone asks a question and the other person says ‘walk with me’. They then walk down a hall or along a path to discuss whatever the topic is. The implication, this is something we need to work on this together. I…
It’s never too late to start journal writing. Pick up a cheap spiral notebook or find a special bound one, it doesn’t matter. Join in! If you enjoy reading, or watching movies, what character do you admire the most? What do you admire about them? This week, consider if you could be that fictional character,…
This week journal prompt asks you to look at your life. As children, we have dreams of what life will be like when we grow up. Did life turn out as you dreamed? What surprises you about your life?
I am in a couple of Toastmasters clubs. In one club there is a member who is blind. I am awe-struck whenever I see her. This woman sees through hearing, and she ‘sees’ a lot. She picks up on things people do simply by listening and notices things those of us who are watching don’t…