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| My 2014 Joy Dare- counting blessings daily. |
My (not so) Secret journal is one I began with many, along with Ann Voskamp. I dedicated a small notebook to the exclusive task of the counting.
By my bedside is where I prefer it. But, on a bad day, or a desperate one, I’ll grab it and take it with me. I toss it in the book bag, or purse. Because when I feel least grateful, and the storms are kicking up, and when I lose sight of God. I do this one thing. I look hard and seek. I start my counting and it saves me. It is this continued practice…that keeps me, and my eyes heaven-bound, instead of bound by the things on earth that bind me.
Yes, I’m a little late in my jumping back into this particular journal activity, but after looking at the fancier ones, I set my feet to the drugstore and once again purchased a simple Cambridge-Mead Notebook– This particular one is just the right size for me to hold and write in anywhere. It has a heavy card-stock cover which is great for my ModPodge collage cover. It also has a pocket, although I did not use it much, but one never knows. It has 140 pages and measures 7 in x 4 3/8 in.
I actually also kept an online count separately- on Mondays, but I am unsure if I will continue. The Monday post, that is, not the counting!
I don’t do the three a day that Ann prompts, but I just count away as they come!
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| Here is the first journal dedicated exclusively to the counting to 1000 and beyond. |
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| After perusing many fancier journals, this habit gently nudged me to stay with the simple spiral bound notebook that escorted me through my first counting of thousands… |
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| Side by side, new and old. |
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| The first gifts... |
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| My last counted gift…onward! |
Will you be keeping a Blessing or Gratitude Journal this year?
Will you count your blessings?
Will you take this Joy Dare– right where you are?
Enthusiastically, Dawn 
I keep my list on my NEO. Last year I started toward the end of May and got to over 600 by New Years, I receive her blog my e-mail. I liked her prompt list and printed it off for my prayer group that meets two times a week. I am short one at the moment of the goal of an average of three a day.
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Dawn- I am your neighbor today at SDG! I just started a gratitude list in a journal during Advent…I have keep gratitude lists and tried the 3 a day with Ann…but this year I sensed the Spirit asking me to dedicate a journal to the process…it's a cute little thing that I got at a artsy craft show…it's cover is made out of a BINGO card…I think it's significant…because BINGO is a cry of celebration and winning and I think that's what cultivating a list of gratitudes can represent…hmmm maybe I will blog about this! Thanks for sharing yours! I LOVE how you kept it simple and inviting to YOU! Hugs-Kel
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Kel, Yay! I am not sure I knew you were part of the SDG sisterhood- but of course you would be- that is perfect! On my way to visit you!
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Thanks for sharing how you count blessings…LOVE your mod-lodge journal cover, Dawn! I list mine on my phone memos, then copy to journal when I get longish list. You've encouraged me to continue this life-changing practice inspired by Ann's best-seller 🙂
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