day 13: when the reality takes longer than the writing

Almost halfway through this project of writing for 31 days on one thing and I've come to a few conclusions:

1 I love the idea of writing with a specific focus - it helps get me through days where I don't know what to write or feel like writing.

2. Doing so for 31 consecutive days is hard.

3. Doing so for 31 consecutive days on a topic where I am challenging myself to grow in a topic area like fulfulling God's greatest commandments, well...I have no words.

If I ever plan to do something like this again, can someone please remind me to pick a topic like "31 Days of Words to Know" or "31 Days of Links" or even "31 Days of Pictures of Things I've Found on my Floor"?

feathers from a pillow

So although I was totally planning on having a printable to go with yesterday's applesauce recipe with the thought in mind of giving them away as gifts to go along with the Deep Love Diving challenges, instead I am going to practice more of this.

Because taking time to create, photograph and write about cute little tags for gifting applesauce and then actually giving them away because I want to and not because I posted about it, is taking time away from communing with God and loving the ones He gave me.

And yesterday, we spent time meeting turtles...

Pretending gunpowder horns were shofars...

Picking leaf bouquest...

Practicing our balance (I am practicing this too)...

And pretending to get married (I pretty much did the same thing to her dad ;) )