Encouragement Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/encouragement/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:13:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Encouragement Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/encouragement/ 32 32 26348127 Delight in the Day For the Fun of It https://adelightfulglow.com/delight-in-the-day-for-the-fun-of-it/ https://adelightfulglow.com/delight-in-the-day-for-the-fun-of-it/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:12:59 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50196  Do it for the fun of it.  I read this somewhere in the interwebs. This gentle nudge to do the thing because it makes me smile. Because it brings me joy. Maybe it brims with the satisfaction of accomplishment. Spills over with active delight. “Why not?” I think. A small smile, a happy twinge, hovers [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/delight-in-the-day-for-the-fun-of-it/feed/ 0 50196 If You Start A Book Club…. https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/ https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:56:27 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49839 If you start a book club and if you meet once a month, every month for almost three years, and if you have a book society retreat in the nearby city for a long weekend in January of 2023 and again in March of 2024, then you might find your book clerisy in February of [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/feed/ 2 49839 Souldeep Symphony: Soulsafe Space https://adelightfulglow.com/souldeep-symphony-soulsafe-space/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:33:43 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49082 “Most people’s souls are buried beneath mounds of activity, excuses, comforts, noise, addictions, laughter, small talk, romance, therapy, and entertainment. We are like passengers on a subway, moving quickly from one obligation, relationship, or activity to another, seldom stopping to wonder who and where we really are. Sometimes it seems like the church is trying [...]

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]]> 49082 Helpful, Hopeful, Beautiful https://adelightfulglow.com/helpful-hopeful-beautiful/ https://adelightfulglow.com/helpful-hopeful-beautiful/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:22:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=47936 My criteria for who and what and where I spend my time online and on social media has always held certain parameters. I named it more specifically in this way. What I’m following must be helpful, hopeful, or beautiful. We become consumed by what we consume. Every so often I reassess. What once was helpful [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/helpful-hopeful-beautiful/feed/ 2 47936 Keep At It https://adelightfulglow.com/keep-at-it/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:15:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=47916 To all the creators and dreamers and makers and vulnerable people showing up to share their work, words, music. {and this is all of us, anyone breathing, because we all create in some way, all made to produce art of a myriad of types by our Creator} • A Word For You • Keep at [...]

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]]> 47916 The Loneliness of Silence https://adelightfulglow.com/the-loneliness-of-silence/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:04:35 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=47735 “God invites us to turn to each other as ones in whom Christ dwells as living homes of God to confess His goodness until we begin to believe it.” ~ Emily P. Freeman I’d loved lifting the blind each morning and taking a peek at the new sunrise breaking across the dawn of sky,What had [...]

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