Author: Jocelyn
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I turned 34 this week.
It has been a very non-Lenten way to finish Lent. Far too celebratory. 😉 Maybe I’m crazy (ok actually I know I’m crazy), but this week my mind keeps going back to the likely fact that this was the year of life to which Jesus never made it. Tradition (good, bad, and ugly) usually has it…
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Lenten Days 29-35 Instagram Round Up
A few days away with my boys for spring break led to lots of reading (yay!) along with a slight reduction in my #lent #lenttogether #47daysoflent Instagram posts. I know you’ll understand. Love, Jocelyn Several of this week’s posts speak for themselves, no comments were necessary. Day 32. Playing Monopoly Deal with this guy.…
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Lenten Days 22-28 Instagram Round Up
I’m smack dab in the middle of Instagramming through Lent (in lieu of the regular blogs you’re used to at Life with Jocelyn). Here is week four’s summary. 🙂 Follow jocelyn.larsen on Instagram or follow along on Instagram or Twitter at #lenttogether #lent #47daysoflent. Day 22. My tulips are coming. A friend and mentor bought…
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Lenten Days 15-21 Instagram Round Up
#lenttogether #lent #47daysoflent Day 15. Meet my best new running buddy. (No, friends, he doesn’t live with me. The world has not yet turned THAT upside down.) But his name is KJ and he is wonderful and he belongs to @bec.harris.14 and @charris1022 The best thing is he gets my a$$ out of the house…
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Lenten Days 8-14 Instagram Round Up
Week 2 Instagram Wrap-up! Get these day by day when you follow jocelyn.larsen on Instagram or you can follow along with #lenttogether #47daysoflent #lent Day 8. My little bonsai plant looked oh so healthy for months. Then, in just one week it lost all its leaves — except for the ones on that one lone…
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What is Jesus Praying for You?
I spent two days last week with some students and full time Christian missionaries at Eastern Washington University teaching, coaching, and spiritually encouraging. I drove home with that wonderful happy-exhausted-full feeling. And then when I got home, I went to bed embarrassingly early two nights in a row. 🙂 The talk I gave to students…
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Lenten Days 1-7 Instagram Round Up
Lent’s first week’s worth of instagram posts at #lenttogether #47daysoflent. For those of you not-so instagram inclined, it’s kinda sorta like a very tiny mini blog post per day. The captions below correspond to the photos in the gallery above, beginning at top left and going clockwise. Day 1. Today begins the black-and-blue season of Lent: the…
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Hey, Jesus, did coming to earth feel anything like this??
You know when you’re lying in bed in the morning, perfectly warm and comfy and quiet…and then, suddenly one of your kids or pets loudly loses their minds? And all you want in the world is for them to just get self-control over their immature emotions, use their words, equitably resolve the now escalating conflict…
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Mother-Son Book Race 2017
One of my sons and I are having a 2017 book race: We’re competing to see who can read the most chapter books this year. We’re making a stack on the fireplace mantle in our living room of the books we read (using some stand-ins for the library books) and then at Christmastime we plan…
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A Soul Practice for Today: Praying Psalm 65
If you’ve been with me long, I think you know quite well of my love for the psalms, and that this has been a renewed love over the past few years, particularly through a short little book by Eugene Peterson that is still turning my world upside down: Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer.…