The following are excerpts from some great blog posts by other folks that I stumbled upon recently. Click on the underlined section of each to read them in full. And make sure you watch Addie Zierman’s awesome book trailer at the bottom. It’s definitely a book you’ll want to check out this year.
For 40 days, I paid attention to the people in the service industry, letting Mother Teresa’s words, “We belong to each other”, mean more to me than a pretty phrase to hang on my kitchen wall. For the 40 days of Lent, I treated every person in customer service as if they belonged to me, and soon, they did.
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One of the first questions my therapist ever asked me was, “Have you been overfunctioning?”
I was in tears at the time, no surprise. Therapy brings out some of my best crying. And I wasn’t sure I understood her question. I tried to clarify, but like any good therapist, she let the question linger.
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I am a germophobe. The idea of drinking from a communal cup grosses me out. I get unhealthily anxious about these kinds of things, especially in February. Every year I battle creeping paranoia about flu season.
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So I’ll be off practicing delight. Relearning what it looks like to choose books for fun, to use time to play, to write things that make me giddy. And I hope you’ll look for ways to choose delight as well.
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