Linky Friday: June’s The New January

This month marks the beginning of the middle of the year. This revolutionary year for my family is almost halfway over, and this realization hit me like a hot, humid summer wind. Another year is almost gone. Our summer birthday season starts this month. In two and a half more months, almost all of my babies will have turned another year this year. I have battled depression as deep as the ocean itself, and come out victorious. Babies have been born. Autumn is coming.

With social media exploding with hatred, anger, bitterness, and rage.... this post really made an impression on me this week, because sometimes we DO need a second January.

How You Can Do A Reset in the Middle of the Year: June’s The New January

"You can realize: A year can evaporate before you know it.

In the middle of a culture of outrage, where judgement can be be our dialect of choice and angry, finger pointing posts can go viral and sicken our communal well, you can just want to stop at the end of the lane and watch the sun over the fields.

You can want to smell the flowers and inhale deeply, you can want to make your moments make your days make something meaningful, that will last beyond the loud.

You can walk into the house, sort the mail, put the farm paper down on the table, turn and look at the calendar and just quietly exhale:

The best way to live a good year is to do a reset halfway through the year.

June is the Second January.

Get up early and watch the sun rise. Open a window so you can breathe it all in. Open His Word. Pour a cup of orange juice. Don’t try to face anything until you’ve faced Him: First 10 Minutes always with  your First Love. Word In. Work Out. Work Plan.

...successful people are the ones who choose to let the joy and satisfaction of simply getting to show up be their payment.
Keep practicing the presence of being aware of His presence.

He lives that everyday: Genius is only one percent cleverness and ninety-nine percent a very long endurance.

Genius is only one percent cleverness and ninety-nine percent a very long endurance.

 Keep going and never, ever give up.

He chooses that everyday: When you work faithfully, creativity comes faithfully. Keep showing up — because this is how you never, ever give up.

...You can even tell by the way he wears his cap, by the way his smile comes easy out in a field of seeds: He makes it a habit to hope. Even in the middle, even when you have to begin again.

Change your habits and you can change anything into a possibility."

Read the rest of the post at Ann Voskamp's Blog Here.