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Me

Lots of people with great journals and journals ideas that look fantastic. I see the ads all over Facebook. Thing is: i love the idea; I love creative journals and productivity journals and art journals.  I have had them all at some stage. BUT and its a big BUT, they mostly don't work well for me. I use them for a while, lose them, put them in safe places, allocate special uses for them,and find them 5 years later. I will maybe use them again at some stage and the process will start again.  I have my own system (if you could call it that) that works most of the time. It probably seems chaotic to others but as much as I try to 'organise' I end up less organised and frustrated. I also dislike unfinished things so this creates a tug-of-war of competing interests in my brain. (Oh yes,  it can be a mine-field for the uninitiated) but it works for me.  My point is I guess that different things work for different people in all areas of life. Find what works for you and don'...

Perspective

This morning I was thinking, oh God,  please make this rain stop. Then I remembered those affected by major flooding in Qld and NSW and I thought of the war in Ukraine,and the pain and suffering, and lives needlessly lost because of a war they didn't want and couldn't control. And suddenly, the rain didn't seem so much and my life seemed good and I prayed for those in places around the world experiencing unimaginable pain and suffering. God, please make the war stop.