Tag: Lent

• Top 10 of 2022

  

  It might have taken me ten months to write about my honeymoon, but I am determined to keep my New Year’s tradition of blogging about the previous year’s highlights on January 1st. In other words, this will be an all nighter. But didn’t you only get four hours of sleep last night? you ask. Why…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 1, 2023

  holidays, lists, married life

  christmas, cowboy, Cruise, home, kindle and grain, Lent, married life, new year, new years, reflections, Rhode Island, Royal Caribbean, sacrament, Texas, top lists, top ten, wedding, wedding video

• “Let me not eat of their delicacies…”

  

  One of the practices I find great joy in doing is writing reflections. (You may recall a few months ago I shared an Advent reflection about what it means to go home for Christmas.) This process of writing reflections is helpful for me because it allows me to see scripture in a new way, by…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  March 23, 2018

  faith, food, holidays, writing

  church, delicacies, eating, faith, fasting, food, inspiration, Lent, meaning, Psalm 141, reflections

• “Tangents are great” said the justification blogger

  This past weekend I decided to say goodbye to my waitressing job.   Despite the anticipated feelings of liberation and joy I thought I’d experience (something akin to running naked through a field of daisies yelling, “I’m free, I’m free!”), I felt remarkably sad. In fact, I’m tempted to call them now and say, “Hey,…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  March 5, 2014

  blogging, food, holidays, television, waitressing, writing

  Blast, blogging, dessert, exercise, Lent, quitting, regret, relationships, The Bachelor, waitressing