Making It Meaningful

Christmas is All Gone Bye Bye

10:29, Monday, December 25, 2006 .. Posted in New Ideas .. 1 comments .. Link

Wow, Whew, Aaah, Aaack, and etc. It's over. Well, the cleaning isn't over -- I'm doing therapeutic cleaning tonight and decompressing from all the noise, mess, sugar, cooking, sugar, chocolate, sewing and everything else. I'm feeling somewhat let down but suspect tiredness and too much bad (in content, not flavor) food to be probable causes.

This is gonna be a boring post, because I'm just having some ideas as I work, and want a place to"jot them down" or I'll forget. And if I write them on paper, I'll no doubt throw them away with all the trash laying around.

First of all: I want a new blog. I want to call it "Making it Meaningful" and in it, will be all sorts of ideas and plans and patterns for making everything in your life more meaningful. More scripture around the house (tastefully! Isn't some of the "scripture" decorating stuff awful! Good words are NO EXCUSE for bad taste!) More meaning to the times we sit down to eat, times when we gather with others, times by ourselves. Holidays; new ways to celebrate or old traditions to bring back; the people, places and meanings behind them -- whatever is meaningful and causes us to be reminded of our Father in Heaven, and what he did for us through Jesus. Things that remind us to live according to what we believe and why.

One thing I'd like to do in our house is to have a Thanks Night (once a week or fortnight or month or whatever.) I'm envisioning having a pretty little box sitting out somewhere convenient, with a small notepad and pen nearby. In it, during the day or week, we would write down when we were thankful for something. Perhaps my son would do something nice for my daughter; she would write it down that day and put it in the box. At the end of the week, fortnight or whatever, we would sit down to a nice meal with dessert, and pull out all those slips of paper, and read them. Then Daddy could say a prayer thanking God for each family member, etc. I'm envisioning this as a Sabbath type of thing, and I feel it would be meaningful in generating a sense of caring, thankfulness, and rememberance. I think it would also encourage our family members to do things for each other, knowing that their efforts would not go unnoticed or unthanked. I'm envisioning this as a Saturday evening feast type of thing.

I'd also like to have a night once a week where we have a very simple meal -- plain/meatless bean soup and hot bread, for example -- where we would count how much we had saved by eating so simply, and putting the savings into a jar. After a certain length of time, we could send that money to one of the Christian charitable organizations we support. I am envisioning this as a Sabbath/Sunday night type of meal.
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I LOVE your post!

11:27, Monday, December 25, 2006 .. Posted by gokings13
God is drawing my heart away from the "glitz and glam" of what everyone else is doing, and towards Him.
Lev. 23 is where I am starting.
There is SO much to be said by finding ourselves smack dab in the middle of His Will, His Word, His Way!!
Have a beautiful day!!
Laura

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