Comments on: Why I Chose These 7 Objects for My One Word Jar https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/ on Life and Love Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:31:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Barb Hegreberg https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336063 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:44:53 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336063 What a great variety of items you have already added to your jar. I wonder what else you will uncover and add to the collection. I look forward to reading about the journey.

]]> By: Maree Dee https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336050 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:04:44 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336050 I love the idea of collecting objects. My word is “pause.” I will share my word in a blog post tomorrow, but now I can’t wait to start collecting objects. Lisa, you never disappoint me when I read your articles.

I appreciate you linking up with Grace & Truth! Your post resonated deeply, and I’m thrilled to feature it on my Pinterest board. You can find it here: https://www.pinterest.com/embracingtheune/grace-truth-christian-link-up-featured-posts/.

]]> By: Ashley Rowland | HISsparrowBlog https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336031 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:28:29 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336031 I love the different objects you found that remind you of your word. I especially like the nesting dolls. Sometimes I feel like younger versions of myself are different people almost. But I like how you appreciate how each version of you influenced the current you.

]]> By: Michele Morin https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336030 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:55:47 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336030 This is so beautifully visual and concrete! I think we’re losing our ability to connect meaningfully with our physical surroundings and this practice really pushes back!

]]> By: Boma https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336011 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:10:00 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336011 Thanks for sharing. Many blessings to you!

]]> By: Lisa Blair https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-336009 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:08:22 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-336009 There are so many layers to the ripple effect, Lisa. What a joy to recognize what others have given us and, likewise, to acknowledge the change/ripples within ourselves as we grow older and wiser.

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-335999 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:51:33 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-335999 Oh btw, I have my own sets of matryoshka dolls straight from Russia from Mother’s and my Russian piano-teacher pen friend of around 50 yrs. They are wonderful and so colorfully painted. There are more than what you show here (not a criticism, but just what I have). The tiniest is maybe a half-inch tall. I love their symbolism too for all the different aspects of our personalities that live inside each of us. It’s worth removing each outer shell to go deeper to let God reveal who we *really* are.
xo
L

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-335998 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:47:13 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-335998 Lisa, love, love, LOVE this, because I am constantly thinking metaphorically and symbolically. And little objets d’art, so to speak, speak to *me* on deeper levels. So in my scribery I have such reminders and symbols that speak very particularly to me. Things like butterflies, twinkle lights, tiny cloisonne teapot, tiny cup, tiny crystal inkwell (no ink) and tiny real-silver writing plume that emerges from it (a gift from a friend when I released my book Love Letters to God), a little wicker basket atop my computer desk where I write w/ two gorgeous gold-accented fish (actually a pretty Christmas ornament) suspended from its handle. To me this empty basket represents me when I sit to write and have writer’s block. My brain is empty. But I know if I give the Lord my two little fish, and pray, He promises to multiply my words. He does! As well you know, I’m fairly prolific! 🙂

For my word quiet, I’ve loved your idea though in assembling symbols for your word, alone. LOVE THIS. And I love that you repurposed the perfume bottle I gave you. Actually it too, as you know, was a symbolic gift, and I have mine, empty, for God to collect my tears (Scripture says He collects our tears in His bottle–ergo, that too is His symbol for how precious He considers our tears to be). But I love your water idea. I was thinking about things like a small conch shell, symbolic of listening to God (like one “hears” the ocean in some shells) and if I’m quiet enough I hope to hear the Lord “speak” to me, a singing bowl (not for Eastern woo-woo stuff), but because of a wonderful poem by British Anglican poet Malcolm Guite about becoming an empty singing bowl, ourselves, and when we are quiet enough, our song will emerge, a little framed picture of Jesus agonizing alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. He Himself was not quiet in that moment, but He was left quietly alone in spirit to wrestle with God while His disciples slept. Quietude can feel lonely, and I know I need to have a wrestling session with the Lord. Gosh, I had a couple other ideas I wrote down, but they don’t spring to mind. But like you, when I see a symbol, it brings comfort and an inner knowing and a prompting to live them out.

Love you and all you write and how you think and how you encourage us!!!
xo
Lynn

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-335997 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:32:00 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-335997 In reply to Dianna.

It helps me to read definitions for ideas for metaphoric symbols. Here are defs of resilience:
the power or ability of a material to return to its original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
the ability of a person to adjust to or recover readily from illness, adversity, major life changes, etc.; buoyancy.
the ability of a system or organization to respond to or recover readily from a crisis, disruptive process, etc.:

Lynn again: so one idea might be something that stretches sans breaking and returns to original shape. Just a thought from the peanut gallery, and bottom line, it must speak to *you*. xo L

]]> By: Dianna https://lisanotes.com/why-i-chose-these-7-objects-for-my-one-word-jar/#comment-335992 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:44:17 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=41735#comment-335992 Lisa, I read this post on Friday and have been thinking about it ever since. I love this concept and would love to do something like this with my One Word “Resilience” but it will take some more thought. This is where I’m not really very creative. but I do appreciate the opportunity to think through these things with you.

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