Links, Books, and Other Things I Love – November 2016
Here are favorites from October and what I’m looking forward to in November.
1 Second Everyday
[If you can’t see the 1 Second Everyday video, click here]
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Around the Web
• This Is Probably the Least You’ll Weigh All Year. Sorry.
Ugh. We’ve reached our annual low. More weight to come through Christmas.
• The Pains Of Humanity Have Been Draining Me
“Some people think we are just whining about the past. But we’re not. . . .You can’t wipe away a 500-year trauma in 50 years” by Lecrae, Grammy Award winning recording artist.
• Tips for Decluttering Photos
Keeping your photos organized is overwhelming. Lots of good tips here. I want to finish this project this year!
• The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About
I get this. Sad. But true. You, too?
• Losing Friends on Social Media Due to Politics?
Watch this 2-minute video for good advice (only slightly tongue-in-cheek) if you still want your friends on November 9.
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On Reading
• How to Be Book Nerdy
Signs of a book nerd. Which ones are you? I enjoyed Madeline’s complete series; read it here, 31 Days to a Better Reading Life.
• 5 Reasons You Need Fiction
What the best stories do.
• 31 Books I Can’t Live Without
Another great 31 Days series – Cara Meredith offers a wonderful list of her favorite books.
• Currently Reading
I made a great library run.
- Love Warrior
by Glennon Doyle Melton - The Bridge of Brilliance
How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World
by Nadia Lopez - A Force for Good
The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World
by Daniel Goleman - Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age
by Bob Cutillo - Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Todd Gilbert - The Great Spiritual Migration
How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
by Brian McLaren - How to Be Here
by Rob Bell
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Things I Love
• The K Babies
Such fun at the pumpkin patch again this year with my daughter Jenna’s kindergarten class.
Friday, the day before the day before the wedding:
• Saturday, the day before the wedding:
Rehearsal, October 1
• Getting closer!
• Girls Night Out
• The Big Day, October 2!
Jenna and Trey. We’re still awaiting the real wedding pics, but here are a couple from friends.
• My Four Corner Friends with the Newlyweds
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On the Blog
• 26 Surprising Ways to Encounter God
#Write31Days . . . Done! Whew.
• Valuables and God
What 3 things would you grab (other than people and pets!) if your house were on fire? Where is God in those things?
• Is Your God Worth Sharing?
It might depend on how you think about God.
• What’s Your Number?
A brief review of the Enneagram and the new book, The Road Back to You.
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What was one of your highlights from October? What are you looking forward to in November? Please share in the comments.
- On the Blog – October 2016
- On Election Eve, You Are Elected
GREAT to see a few wedding pictures of Jenna and Trey!
Thanks, Lynn. I’m ready to get the “real” pictures soon! We thought some previous pics would be posted yesterday but not yet. Having to be patient. 🙂
What a fun post! Such great information but still a lot of fun. Visiting from #tellhisstory
I always enjoy your recaps!
Looking forward to . . . THANKSGIVING Day! My favorite holiday, and I’m diving into Psalm 100 with my Sunday School kids, hoping that we can learn the whole thing in November!
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays too, Michele. Nothing but family and food to think about. 🙂 Psalm 100 is a great Psalm to memorize–old and young alike! I know you’ll be blessed through it.
Congratulations to you all on the wedding! Such a fun post to read. One of my highlights from October was “Grandparents Day” at my granddaughters’ school. It is always such fun to see where the two of them spend much of their time. I am looking forward to see what God has for me in November 🙂
Thanks, we definitely enjoyed the wedding. Grandparents Day sounds like a lot of fun. How special that you get to spend such great times with your grandbabies. I know it’s a blessing to all of you.
What a neat idea!
I’m hopping over from Women with Intention.
I LOVE that you list recommended books! Love Warrior was definitely a good one! I’m going to look into some of the others! Thanks!
I’m in the middle of Love Warrior and can hardly put it down. Glennon is so real and raw. Glad you liked it!
Lisa,
You look fabulous in the wedding photos! Congratulations to your daughter!
Thank you, Valerie. It was definitely a special day! It’s hard to believe it was a month ago today.
Lisa, I’m a fan of your Links and Books You Love – you have wonderful recommendations! Congrats to your family – what sweet moments. Blessings!
Thanks, Sandra. These posts are always fun to put together, even though it seems like a new month comes along so quickly! 🙂
I’m a great big fan of your 1 second videos, Lisa! And thanks for the glimpses of your daughter’s big day.
The mother-of-the-bride was stunning and radiant, too …
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Aw, you’re sweet, Linda. 🙂 The day was a beautiful one and today Jenna and Trey celebrate their one month anniversary! Time continues to whiz on by….
Love your 1-second-a-day videos. Love the wedding photos, too! I’ve been looking forward to those! I need to make a project of dealing with photos. All my old albums are those sticky kinds, and I’ve got several shoeboxes of photos that never made it into and album yet, then the rest are digital. I am definitely a book nerd. 🙂 I enjoyed the post about reading fiction. The one about womanhood is sadly all too true. I’ve been “hiding” most FB posts on politics. 🙂 I’ll be so glad when this election is over – although whoever wins, the other side will probably be complaining for a long time to come.
Thanks, Barbara. We’re ready to get the ‘real’ wedding pictures soon. I didn’t take a single photo the whole day.
I love all the photos I’ve collected through the years, but they’re also my albatross. I’ve gotten most of the printed photos organized, and now I’m going back through the digital ones and organizing them, as well as printing the best of the best. It’s been a VERY long project. But hopefully I’m nearing the end.
Yes, I’ve hidden many of my friends on FB the past 2 months, too. ha. I’ll have to go back through my list and re-follow people after the election….but yes, maybe best to wait a few weeks for the dust to settle. 😉
Thanks for sharing the wedding pics!
You’re a busy lady. I appreciate the effort of all the links you provide.
I will check out a few of them.
Thanks, TC. The links are fun to share. My busyness just comes in spurts, so I do have lots of downtime, too. As an introvert, I live for those times. 🙂
Lisa,
Loved the photos of you with your sweetie, Jenna and Trey and her class: too, too cute! Blessings on your November
Thanks, Dolly. It was quite an action-filled month! I appreciate all the prayers you sent up on our behalf about the wedding. God was so faithful to answer them!
Wow, Lisa! So many goodies here. I love the photos. You are so beautiful, inside and out. I was intrigued with what that article said about why we should read fiction – that the good ones are an escape not from reality but into it. Now that’s some food for thought for me. 🙂 Blessings and hugs to you!
Thank you, Trudy–that’s very sweet of you.
Yes, the article about fiction was intriguing to me too. For years I didn’t really understand the benefits of reading fiction, except for pleasure (which is definitely a benefit that counts!). But the last several years I’ve started grasping how important it is in expanding our perspectives in ways that perhaps non-fiction can’t do. So I’m embracing novels more and more. 🙂
so much joy in those wedding photos. Thanks for sharing those. And I weigh the least now??? wow, that is discouraging. LOL
I know; the weight article isn’t very encouraging. ha. We are excited to get the real wedding pictures soon! I’m sure I’ve already gained a little weight even since then. 🙂
Big month! I like that wedding dominated one second a day video!
Awesome pics of the wedding and your baby! Okay, you and her dad too… !
Thanks, Floyd. The wedding dominated a lot for several months. ha. But now we’re done! 🙂
These are such wonderful photos of your family, and your daughter’s wedding! Congrats! And such great tidbits for all the book nerds! I would have to say “yes” to belonging to that club! 🙂 Thanks for sharing so many good thoughts. –Blessings to you!
There must be quite a few of us book nerds still around. 🙂 Comforting to know you’re one of them too, Bettie.
I liked the link “Is Your God Worth Sharing”… a really thought-provoking and well-written article. Thank you for writing that!
Congratulations on your daughter’s wedding, by the way. She is so beautiful, and so are you! 🙂
Thanks for following the link to God Worth Sharing. It’s still hanging around in my own mind…. We had a great time at the wedding Thanks, Makenna!
What a fun review, Lisa. Congratulations on the wedding — beautiful! That is one very full month. Sweet blessings to you, friend. xoxo
October was definitely a full month; looking forward to a much slower November. 🙂 Thanks, Crystal.
What a pleasing October. Beautiful bridge, beautiful mama – and such sweetness woven through! October a juggling act here, being a tween adult – between taking care of my crew’s crazy schedule and older family dealing with hard issues 3.5 hours away – all wrapped in love and faith even in the hard! November- I think it’s time to steep into thanksgiving for He does! I so enjoyed your video – and your photo collage!
Sounds like you had a hard month, Maryleigh. 🙁 Praying that the hard issues and the juggling act will be easier in November for all of you!
The world is a little crazy especially nowadays, huh? In the news…oh, I just stopped watching the news.
But all those lovely smiles just prove that life is still worth living. So many reasons to be thankful for, especially the gift of family and friends.
Have an amazing November, Lisa.
The news. Sigh. I try to watch as little as possible, too. Yes, life is worth living, though, because of the people we have in our lives! So thankful for that. May you have a blessed November also, Lux.
I really liked this post. I clicked on the Lecrae article and posted a comment. Thanks for sharing that. It was really nice seeing the photos of your family. Your daughter looked beautiful. My niece had a sash on her dress too. I love that look. Your dress was beautiful Lisa. Have a blessed weekend.
From the #FaithNFriends Linkup
~Sherry Stahl
xoxo
I guess sashes on wedding dresses are a thing now? 🙂 Thanks, Sherry. It was a beautiful day that I know we’ll all look back on with great memories!
What a busy month you had. Hope you get a break now! 🙂 love the pictures!
Thanks, Sarah. November will definitely be slower than October was. I welcome that. 🙂
Isn’t is sad we can’t just agree to disagree with other people’s thoughts and ideas? Instead we act immaturely over politics – of all things!
Oh my goodness! The smile on Jenna’s face says it all. Thanks for sharing with Thankful Thursdays, Lisa.
I’m with you, Lori–I wish we could just let others have their ideas without causing fights about it all. We’ll see how “mature” (or not) our country is after the election results come in tonight. Praying for us all.
Love this recap Lisa. That video is fun. Didn’t like that reminder about our weight. Ugh! The wedding picture is precious – that smile.
I wasn’t fond of that weight reminder either, Debbie. ha. My husband and I both have birthdays in November as well as Thanksgiving, so November is usually a month for extra pounds, not less.
Loving the 1 second every day – still!
I was in the book shop the other day and was tempted by Everyone Brave is Forgotten – maybe?
Watching a child become a grown up is always a blessing and one to love forever.
I remembered last night in bed that I forgot to do a 1-second video for yesterday. ha. Most of the time it’s easy to remember to do one, but occasionally I forget. Oh well.