{grow with love} day nineteen

I can hardly believe we are so very near to wrapping up Grow With Love: Marriage Edition.  It’s been an amazing process with challenges and fun and lots of reflection.  We so hope you’ve enjoyed the project and that, in the end, you are left with a series of pages you can be proud of — both for the creative expression and the story you’re telling.  And hopefully even for the growth you’ve experienced along the way.

The prompt for today, Day Nineteen, helps us to begin to really put everything in perspective.  Let’s take a look:

I have to confess that I don’t have my page ready to share yet tonight.  It’s been one I’ve thought about a lot and have begun, but today was one of those days that just ran away from me.  So I will be back to share it as soon as I can.

In the meantime I want to give you some food for thought as you formulate your own pages.  I know that the perspective we hope you will take here may be a little uncomfortable or even a little morbid to think about, but it’s one of my most favorite processes for really journaling from the heart in an earnest and meaningful way.  Any time I consider my family, children or husband reading through my art and stories after I pass, it puts everything into perspective: what really matters?  Am I sharing that here?  What do I most want them to know? About me? About how I feel about them?  Will they see that in my scrapbooking?

And that’s what we’re asking you to do here.  Our hope is that you’ll end up with a page full of those things “that really matter”.  It’s doubtful — if you knew these word the last words you would say — that you would share the trite or fleeting thoughts and feelings of hurt and anger or resentment and ugliness.  Instead, you would probably share everything from a place of love.  I predict as you’re writing this page, you’ll find yourself left with those kinds of sentiments.  I hope you really let yourself delve deep for this one.

I’ll be back soon with my page and will actually be going back and scrapping and sharing all those I’ve not been able to yet.  Which brings me to say….even as we are bringing things to a close, you can still dive in anytime. This project will remain here on my blog and Crystal’s blog so you can start the adventure anytime.  And if you are just finding us, you can catch up on the details in Day One and then follow the prompts as we hop from my blog to Crystal’s and back.  It’s never too late to start something you will find meaningful and we would love for you to join us or catch up anytime, in your time.

I so hope that you all have enjoyed taking this journey with us!  Don’t forget to stop by Crystal’s blog tomorrow for the final day of Grow With Love.

Lots of love, and Happy Scrapping!!