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nted eggs before worship i know that doesn t sound like much but we are talking a four day email debate between 8 or more people i think we accommodated everyone s wishes and all seem to be happy i provided a calming influence to a newbie knitter who is a perfectionist and always concerned that he is making a mistake his original teacher is away in hawaii for the month awwww i gathered and distributed a contact list for pierce county hunger advocates using the attendees at the symposium the first of the month i shared lenten blogs and inspirational posts on hunger clean water and prayers on the facebook page for pierce county hunger and on our adult sunday school facebook group i babysat for one of the pastor s twins while she was at the hospital caring for the other twin it was no hardship to rock and cuddle a 2 month old for an afternoon i participated weekly in the fledgling toastmasters group we are forming here at tobey jones i kept up with my diet providing detailed lists of foods eaten and exercises performed to my counselor i m not sure i remember anything else but i do know that i feel totally busy and fulfilled and i think i m keep my eyes focused outward to see what i can do for others as well as for myself photo credits flickr creative commons and sarah wiles facebook page posted in bethany diet franke tobey jones hunger ministry knitting lenten discipline one word provide tagged bethany diet hunger advocates knitting lent toastmasters leave a reply note to self posted on march 29 2014 by abbiewatters 1 when the car says low key battery and dings after you turn it off believe it ran to the grocery store at noon to pick up some fruit and hamburger buns car started just fine when i left the house it had no problem locking the car but when i came out 15 minutes later the fob was deader than a doornail big al had to call a neighbor to run him down to the safeway parking lot so he could open the car and drive me and the groceries home immediately after lunch we went to the toyota dealer and had a new battery put in my fob sigh posted in miscellaneous tagged thingsthatworkgreatuntiltheydon t battery key fob 1 reply sacred dawdling posted on march 26 2014 by abbiewatters 1 this is the transcript of a speech i gave at toastmasters yesterday one of the benefits of living here at franke tobey jones is the opportunity to be informed and entertained during sessions of senior university last week we heard from an occupational therapist about mindfulness and mental health according to studies mindfulness can help with many of the mental risk factors that affect us as older adults you are probably saying to yourself just what is mindfulness anyway in the simplest definition mindfulness is slowing down and noticing what is going on around and within you mindfulness increases gray matter improves psychological functions such as attention compassion and empathy lifts the mood decreases stress chemicals in the body strengthens the immune system and helps with a variety of medical conditions including cardiovascular disease asthma and type ii diabetes to name a few mindfulness really can be practiced by observing your breath your breathing rate and your thoughts observe accept let go you may have heard it called mindfulness meditation centering prayer or as sue monk likes to call it sacred dawdling m y blogger friend caroline says dawdling as sacred really it is sacred because it s an act of faith to stop work be unproductive and simply look out into the day this requires trust you may remember i mentioned my quiet time that i take care to observe every morning after my shower when i sit on the side of my bed look out the window at the trees in the copse behind the fence and let my mind drift for a time i forget the forces and the shoulds and should nots for a time i just am i m just me after 15 or 20 minutes of just sitting there i m ready to get on with my day you may be saying but i don t have time for this i feel like i don t have time not to meditate another blogger friend esther has been going through a bad patch recently she reported that her bff had recently told her meditate esther do meditate her friend s heart cried out get that friend of yours some peace she needs it some days it takes what seems like forever to quiet the monkey brain chatter going on in my head i often wake up with a hymn in my head an earworm if you will i don t usually sing it out loud but i sing it all the way through while i sit there i will also mentally go through all the moves of the tai chi form we are currently working on caroline says when i sit still like this there are two forces battling within me one says this is important this is what you need right now stillness is going to bring you farther than constant motion ever could the other says what are you doing get off your butt be productive contribute to society if all else fails i fall back on one or more visualization techniques i learned in centering prayer i particularly like the image of floating down a river lying in a canoe with dappled shade passing over my closed eyes if a thought comes into my head i just toss it away another favorite image is of the surf endlessly rolling in and receding and i breathe in stillness and breathe out worry with the surf as the waves come in and go out esther asked how much energy do i actually spend worrying how much energy do i actually spend rushing how much more efficient would my life be if i were always to rest before i rush every day we meet the critical worried part of ourselves that judges our performance minute by minute this is an act of rebellion to endure time to quiet your hands to live peace instead of war it s harder than it sounds but sometimes i think this is the simplest and greatest call there is with practice in the art of sacred dawdling just 5 minutes here 10 minutes there we will be better equipped to understand the value of einstein s words not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted photo credit flickr creative commons posted in lenten discipline toastmasters tagged blogger friends meditation mindfulness rebellion senior university toastmasters 1 reply peace posted on march 17 2014 by abbiewatters 1 for several years i went on float trips on the buffalo river in northwest arkansas i took groups of church campers and i know that girl scout troops and boy scout troops also canoe on the buffalo it s a small river just 150 miles in length it was the first river to be designated a national river and as such it is overseen by the national park service according to wikipedia the national river designation protects natural rivers from industrial uses impoundments and other obstructions that may change the natural character of the river or disrupt the natural habitat for the flora and fauna that live in or near the river i remember some of the political arguments and bickering before it was declared a national river it is the last free flowing undammed stream in arkansas yesterday in sunday school we were talking about girl scouts and the recently ended cookie sale and someone began talking about old camp songs someone brought up peace i ask of thee o river and i was immediately transported back to the buffalo if i ve given you an earworm you can thank me later photo credit flickr creative commons posted in miscellaneous tagged canoeing girl scouts peace 1 reply lent 2014 posted on march 6 2014 by abbiewatters reply i haven t decided on any one particular lenten discipline for this year i ve seen many ideas in the blogs i read on a daily basis and all of them seem good but none has really grabbed me probably because i m already so focused on deliberate eating with my weight loss diet i am quite frankly almost overwhelmed with the mental energy as well as the physical energy it is taking to avoid certain foods and to be sure to eat other foods not to mention the 50 minutes minimum of exercise required at least 5 days a week from time to time i will be pointing out some of the especially convicting blog posts i run across like today at 40 days to food justice you can sign up at the site to get their devotional sent to you daily by email or rss feed the post really rang true for me because i ve found that the most difficult part of my diet is the time it takes planning menus and snacks shopping for fresh food and preparing the meals since i ve not been allowed to grab an atkins bar if it s time to eat i really have to think about what and when i m eating even something as simple as remembering to get something out of the freezer in time to cook it can be a mental strain and back to the exercise this blog is suffering because the hour to hour and a half i spend at the wellness center is the time i used to spend writing for you my faithful readers so i suppose my lenten discipline for this year will be to concentrate on my diet and to be thankful i have the money to spend on healthy food wonderful health insurance that allows me to visit a doctor and dietician weekly and enough time to properly shop for and prepare the healthy food that is so necessary in this quest photo credit flickr creative commons posted in diet hunger ministry lenten discipline tagged diet exercise healthy food lent lenten discipline time weight loss diet leave a reply provide posted on march 1 2014 by abbiewatters reply as you may remember my one word for the year is provide february was spent getting ready to host a gathering concerned with food insecurity here in pierce county washington it was held this morning march 1 and i believe it was a success at least i hope so one of the groups that i ve been significantly involved in is pierce county hunger advocates if you haven t liked the page on facebook quit reading right now and go do it i ll wait we began as a local chapter of bread for the world and have since expanded to partner with fish food banks of pierce county wa the steering committee of which i am a member has sponsored training sessions for representatives of various churches in the county so they could conduct an offering of letters in their congregations we have also visited the food bank locations and registered voters so that those in need could advocate for themselves bread for the world was one of the leading voices in helping change the farm bill to minimize the cuts to snap formerly food stamps we didn t get everything we wanted still 8 billion in cuts over 5 years but at least it wasn t the original 20 billion beth elliott the executive director of fish food banks was one of the speakers this morning we learned that over 1 500 000 people visited various food banks in pierce county last year fish food bank itself served over 560 000 we also heard from matt newell ching the regional director for bread for the world we heard about this year s focus which is to streamline and improve international food aid you can read about it on the bread for the world web site our featured speaker was the honorable derek kilmer us house of representatives 6th district he brought us up to date of the status of food aid internationally the need for an adjustment to food aid in the united states the pending immigration reform bill and other matters happening in washington dc he told us that the state of washington ranks 15th in food insecurity in the country he also spent time answering questions from the audience and was very forthcoming about what we can and should expect from our representatives and senators by providing education to a group of people and empowering them with facts to address some of the most pressing problems regarding food insecurity i think i am doing my part posted in hunger ministry one word provide tagged bread for the world food insecurity one word provide leave a reply abbie watters search march 2014 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 feb apr archives 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