Archive for the ‘contentment’ Category
Women and Their Wonderful Bodies
February 3rd, 2010 by Jonalyn
During one of the last golden days of summer I watched the sun illuminate a forest of changing aspen leaves. Each aspen glowed as a piece of God’s handiwork. As I sat into the silence I didn’t hear any aspen bemoan their figure or their hair or their height.
God says he made the trees of [...]
Posted in beauty, body image, comparison, contentment, female embodiment, shame | Comments (4)
Meditation on Turning Thirty
September 16th, 2009 by Jonalyn
The mist is slipping over the mountains like silk this morning. When I awake to see it and I know I am thirty years old today.
Laying in bed, I listen to an elk call, a bugle that sounded at first like the ice cream truck. What is the ice cream man doing [...]
Posted in Dale Fincher, aging, contentment, female embodiment, home, miscarriage, motherhood, pregnancy | Comments (15)
What Would Women Wear? a smattering of thoughts from two artisans
July 17th, 2008 by Jonalyn
I have a dear friend whose ability to spin the simplest of clothes into a fashionista’s outfit have left me feeling slightly envious. She’s slim, beautiful and gracious.
I’ve come to count her one of my dearest friends.
I love and respect her for more than her clothes. I’ve come to value her mind, her [...]
Posted in book reviews, comparison, contentment, jealousy, society | Comments (2)
A Heart Brimming: Meditation on Friends
July 6th, 2008 by Jonalyn
We’ve just returned from a fishing trip at Fetcher pond. I took our three corgis, the Ladies, out for their bathroom break. As I walked around on our grass, watching the dogs bark I could hear the rodeo and raucous cheers and hoots echoing up to our home on the hill.
I gathered the [...]
Posted in Sabbath/Rest, contentment, family, friendship, home, lament, loneliness, love, pain | Comments (0)
Ruby Slippers at my door
June 9th, 2007 by Jonalyn
Dale and I just moved. We took the plunge. We packed our boxes (well actually a wonderful moving company did) and drove 16 1/2 hours to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, three dogs and one very noisy cat in tow.
And now we’re settling. In the dust and dirt, boxes and stuffing paper, tape and peanuts (I [...]
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Inopportune Sickness
May 6th, 2007 by Jonalyn
This morning I awoke with a relapse of a cold that has lingered uninvited and mostly unappreciated for the last three weeks.
I was sick with a wretched sore throat while visiting my long time friend Erin in Dallas, TX. The only mercy there was that she happened to be sick, too. So we took it [...]
Posted in contentment, pain, sickness | Comments (0)
