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Fine Art Film Print by Lillie Duncan

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This is some of what our days have entailed lately. A quiet sort of existing. We have been reading way more, studying art way more, and we have been snuggling way more. Each one of us have just been more present altogether lately.
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The calm before our long awaited travels coming up this week.

The beautiful thing about motherhood is that it looks different for everyone. The Lord calls us each on different paths. He blesses each of us with different gifts, different strengths. Your children need your gifts, your strengths. They need what you have to offer, and not anyone else. They need to see you grow, be challenged, be broken, and be whole again. They need to see you seek Truth. They need to see the way you live, the way you love. They need to see the way you move through this world despite what the world has to offer.
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They don't need perfection. That would paint a very false reality about the world we live in and set upon them an unattainable standard.
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So in case you needed this reminder today, those little ones you serve day in and day out... they just need you, your story, and your presence. There is a reason God gave them specifically to you and not anyone else.
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Rest in that.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Reading some Henri this morning before the littles wake up. This quote...it is so easy to pass by but in itself is profound. It suggests that despite circumstances, joy is always there... always an option. I don't think it is suggesting we must create our own joy, but... we must be open to it. We must give joy the opportunity to make itself known, even in the smallest ways, despite what is happening around us. The more we are open, inevitably the more joy we will see.
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Morning thoughts as I cherish this picture of my littles. They have been sweetly helping me prepare a space for our newest addition.

I have come to appreciate the rare stillness of the morning. (If you have small children at home, you know what I mean by “rare”.) Those last few moments of darkness before the sun starts to pour through my windows, ever so softly. The past few mornings I have been thinking about our upcoming trip to Seattle and back and everywhere in between. I have started planning our stops. Of them all, I am most excited about the coast of Oregon. It is a place that never gets old to me. A place I love more than words could ever adequately paint.
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While Jake is off this morning to work on the Van with a friend, I am here shuffling through all of my prints from my time there last year. I can’t help but deeply look forward to our time there soon. For so long I have dreamed of the day I could take my family there, I dreamed of my littles running carelessly around the same coastlines I have come to love so much. The same coastlines that have made me feel all the things I didn't want to for so long after losing my brother. The same coastlines that in return brought back a sense of joy, one that only nature and the Creator can give.
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In all honesty, there are times when I sit to write my morning thoughts, times like right now and part of me wants to lessen what I am writing. Tone it down. Make it not so... "feely", "emotional", or "deep" but I shouldn't. It is how I write. It is how I show up in the world. Somehow...when I let the hustle of society and social media seep in for too long... I question myself.
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But there on the rocky coast of the Pacific Northwest. I could never be too deep or too emotional, I just exist cohesively in the same cycle of life as everything around me. That is why we need nature, all of us.
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Perspective on all things.
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Oregon Coast on Film
Scanned by @photovisionprints
Morning Thoughts brought to you by the rain and of course, pregnancy.

Diving into The Body Keeps The Score this morning before we start our school day. It is one of the main prerequisite books before the start of my Cohort in Seattle this fall. So I am deviating from my book plan for the year to focus on this book and others that will guide me along my new journey.
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Have you read this book or heard of it? What are your thoughts? I know I’m long over due for reading it...

Today was the beginning, the rite of passage for my firstborn into the world of education. I have planned for this day and have done everything I could to build this day up. I want her to remember that we are a people who celebrate. From the Creator to creation...and everything in between.
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**Second image was my favorite from our day...the very first book she was able to read on her own!

Look, and look again. This world is not just a little thrill for your eyes.
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It’s more than bones. It’s more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It’s more than the beating of a single heart. It’s praising. It’s giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life- just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe Still another…
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And I have become the child of the clouds, and of hope. I have become the friend of the enemy, whoever that is. I have become older and, cherishing what I have learned,  I have become younger.
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And what do I risk to tell you this, which is all I know?
Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.
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Mary Oliver
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Clouds on film.
Words for the morning.

I have always been a bit nontraditional in a sense. Tending to follow the rhythm and path from an internal perspective rather than anything from the outside. Most of my deep desires have led me to paths whose harvest beckons rest and gives the fruit of freedom. The past year has been an ever-evolving relationship with the idea of rest. An intentional effort to find what it is that gives life instead of stealing it.
Since the sudden death of my brother a few years ago, I live each day with this constant underlying awareness that we take time for granted. It is easy to live as though each day is promised, it is easy to bank on tomorrow holding the same gifts as today. If my brother's life left me with anything, it is the gift & understanding of impermanence.
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It is what drives so many of my off the whim decisions. It is what causes me to follow my creativity, follow each one of my crazy ideas, and in part it has led me to school my children at home.
What I want is for time to slow down. I want to be present with my children. I want every moment I can get with them because I know… I know one day I will look back & wish I had. I want to teach them about the beauty of their Creator. I want to teach them how to listen to the poetry of nature, the lessons it holds, the freedom it gives, the healing that comes. I want to be the one that tells them who they are, who they were created to be, and that they could never be replaced. I want to lovingly, day in & day out, lead them to kindness, lead them to softness, lead them to a life of beauty. One of purpose. Just like our Creator has for me time & time again.
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I want my voice to be an echo in their mind as they grow, one that remains louder than the world around them.
I want to give them full exposure. Exposure to the natural world around us. One in which they were meant to be free in, wild and free.
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*Please know that just b/c I see this as our path now doesn't mean it is forever. It may change just like the seasons. It also doesn't mean your path has to look like my path. That is what makes the world so diverse and beautiful...we are all called on our own journey. Along the way we learn how to celebrate one another!

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