Inspirational Author
+Jeanne Takenaka @JeanneTakenaka
Chasing a dream rarely looks the way we expect it to. Real life, in the form of boys home for the summer and writing disappointments, has swooped in and sapped my enthusiasm.
I thought I would be much further along in my journey by now. Yet, here I am, in the same place I stood a year ago. Only, not entirely.
+Jeanne Takenaka @JeanneTakenaka
I’ve mentioned before how people-pleasing tendencies have burrowed like weeds in my life. Though most of the time, I keep them tamed, that desire for approval still pops its head into the surface of my heart more often than I’d like to admit.
The rejection I dealt with in elementary school became a huge motivator for gaining peoples’ approval. Through my teen years—and into my twenties—I sought to become whatever I needed to in order to be accepted, to be approved of.
By +Jeanne Takenaka @JeanneTakenaka
What am I married to?
I mean, yeah, I’m very happily married to my husband of nineteen years. No regrets there.
But, if an outsider were to peek in on my daily living, what might they see as my groom? What do I devote time, attention and emotion to?
Is it busy-ness? That hurry-up, hectic pace that kids and family schedules keep me on?
By +Jeanne Takenaka @JeanneTakenaka
It’s hard to believe that three months ago, I began the “great adventure” of container gardening. Okay, maybe it’s not a great adventure, but it has been a new adventure.
Okay, maybe it’s not an adventure. But, it is an experience.
By +Jeanne Takenaka @JeanneTakenaka
Sometimes seeing beauty is a choice.
When life gets hard, when diagnoses come that are terminal, we have a choice. Will we purpose to look for the beauty around us? Will we help others look for beauty in their situations?
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