“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As a kid I always chose "truth" in the game of "Truth or Dare" because I was too chicken to take most dares and too square to have any juicy "truth" to share anyway.

But today I am making an exception.  I am accepting a "dare." I am taking Jeff Goins' challenge to s.l..o...w.......d..o....w.....n.

It' a 5-Day "dare" he calls the Slow Down Challenge.

Utterly exhausted at the end of May, I decided to conduct a secret little experiment in the month of June to simplify. You can read more about it by clicking the link to this guest post.

The thought behind it was to begin slowing my life down by letting this one little word “simplify” roll around in my heart and mind all month.

Life is good. Even when it’s hard, life is good.

For me, this always comes in the form of gratitude.

*big exhale*

God is a Planner too. His words, not mine:

’For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord…

Well, it’s a good thing, because I don’t.

This was NOT at all what I had planned.

And that’s a really big deal because well, I’m a planner.  I plan everything…from the next 10 minutes to the next 10 years.  I’ve got it all mapped out for myself.  Or, at least I did.