A Journaling Exercise or Prompt

What story do you have to tell?

What stories do you have to tell?

How is each story sacred?

What makes each story a blessing?

Journal your response to each question. 

Weekend Journaling: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt

WEEKEND JOURNALING: A JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT

Every weekend, it's important to do four things with our journaling:
1 Review the last week.
2 Prepare for the next week.
3 Unwind, relax, and rejuvenate.
4 Extended journaling time.

1 REVIEW THE LAST WEEK
Go back and re-read your journaling from this week. Underline, highlight, circle, star, or do anything else you want if you find something you think is important and you'll want to remember later. Then, make note of it in your journaling today.
A What three memories, at least, stand out to you the most? Journal about them today. Why were they so significant?
B What did you learn this week? List every lesson learned.
C List at least ten blessings you had this week.
D List at least five sunshine moments from this week (happy, memorable times).
E List at least five cloudy moments from this week (tough and memorable times).
F What goals did you accomplish?
G What dream do you have that you are striving to bring to fruition? How'd it go this week?
Now, go through everything you journaled about in #1A-G and give a reason to each. If you have given a reason as to why you journaled about it, then expand the reason.
Also, expand upon each memory and blessing. Include every detail you can think of--including the senses of touch, sight, smell, hearing, tasting, and intuition/discernment.

2 PREPARE FOR NEXT WEEK
Prepare for next week.
A What do you have planned and on your calendar?
B What do you hope to accomplish?
C What can you do to make it an outstanding, memorable week?
D What are your goals for next week?
E What sunshine things do you see?
F Do you see any possibility for cloudy moments?

3 RELAX
A What can you do now to unplug and relax?
B What can you get on the page and let go of?
C What can you journal about to help you relax?

EXTENDED JOURNALING TIME
Try to take longer to journal both days than you normally do. One day, try to double the amount of time and the amount of paragraphs or pages you normally journal. Another day, try to triple it if you can.
I try to journal at least an hour at the day. It's not necessarily all at once and can be ten minutes here, five minutes there. But, that's my minimum goal. It's what works for me. (It may not for you. And, that's okay.) On the weekends, I try to journal for two hours one day and four hours the other day. I
Why do extended journaling? I am able to capture more of my life on the page--and order my thoughts and life that way. It also encourages my imagination and inspires me.

SUGGESTIONS
Everything I said above is just a suggestion. see what works for you.
Just make it your goal every day to journal--and try to do a lot more on the weekend, or your days off. Also, makes sure to review what you did over the last week and what you need to prepare for the next week. 

I Love Mornings

My Personal Journaling February/28/2014/Friday/736 a.m.

I love mornings.
I know. I'm weird.
But, mornings hold the most promise of any day. After all, mornings allow us the chance of a do-over, a new beginning, and a choice.
What choice?
We can control our day or allow it to control us. We have the choice to make it a good day, or a bad day, or an in-between day. Circumstances or emotions do not have to make it a good day or a bad one. That only happens when we make the choice to be swayed by events rather than choice.
I would rather choose to live a good, blessed day--even in spite of what happens. Every day is a blessing. I do not want to take one day for granted. I want to live life to its fullest. I want to live the purpose God has given me.
My purpose is greater than any event/circumstance or emotion.
So, yes. I love mornings.
Every day I wake, I realize I am alive another day. Why? To live my purpose. What is my purpose? I will give two answers. One is the Christian answer. The other is the worldly answer.
What is my purpose? It's the same as everyone else's. It's to bring glory to God.
What is my purpose? To count my blessings. This, too, is the purpose of everyone else.
I love mornings. It's a day given to me my God so I can glorify Him and count the blessings of the new day.
How do I count these blessings?
Through my journaling.
Mornings are an opportunity. What a blessing.
Yep. I love mornings.

-- Stacy Duplease, Writer
Sent from Amazon Kindle Fire HDX

I hope my personal journaling will be a nice journaling exercise or prompt for you, in that they spark something for you to journal about. 

Regardless, don't forget to count your blessings today. Journal them. 

Updated Last on Feb/28/2014 at 824 a.m.

Journaling Exercise or Prompt

What makes you hesitant about journaling or writing your memoir?

Journal your thoughts. Get them on the page. 

A Journaling Exercise or Prompt: A 6-Word Story and a 12-Word Story

Use 6-words and then 12-words to write each of the following stories each day:
1 To describe your day
2 For three memories you made today
3 Three memories of the past
4 Three blessings you have in your life today
5 What you hope for tomorrow
Put these in your journal.

A Journaling Exercise or Prompt: Daily Count Your Blessings

A Journaling Exercise or Prompt: Daily Count Your Blessings

Count your blessings today. List at least three, but ideally, as many as you can.

Write them on the page. Journal them.

Journaling Prompt or Exercise

Do you journal?

Are you writing your memoir?

Do you want to journal?

Do you want to write your memoir?

Journal your thoughts.

A Journaling and Memoir Encyclopedia of 2014: A Faith Journaling Resource Cover

A Journaling and Memoir Encyclopedia of 2014: A Faith Journaling Resource

A Journaling and Memoir Encyclopedia of 2014: A Faith Journaling Resource

It's been my desire for years now to write an encyclopedia on and about journaling. I want it to be all-inclusive, where it has everything I ever learn and have learned about journaling. I will publish a new edition every year and will add the material I blog about and learn from the previous year in the newest edition. 

Stay tuned. I will publish this as soon as possible. This is the writing project I've moved to the forefront and will publish as soon as possible.

As I write it and add to it, I will offer parts of it for free on wattpad.com, so stay tuned for that as well. I will also put the samples on this blog as well. 

Do you journal? 

Have you always wanted to journal?

Do you memoir write?

Do you to write a memoir?

This resource will be an amazing resource for your journaling arsenal. 

EVERY STORY IS SACRED

#Journaling # Journal #FaithJournaling #JournalingPrompt 

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Every now and then, I will write something that doesn't really fit into a specific label or category. So, I will tag it with this image.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS TODAY

Count your blessings today.

Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.


#Journaling # Journal #FaithJournaling #JournalingPrompt #Thanksgiving #GiveThanks

A Friend

There is something magical about a friend.

There are few real friends in our lives.

A Friend...:
Is the one who don't judge. Is there when the sky falls. Will get on an airplane at a moment's notice. Knows your warts, and weaknesses, and still loves you any way. Will never expect to come before your spouse or children. You can not talk to them for a year and it's like a day hasn't passed. Is the family you choose to have in your life. Will put as much into your friendship as you do. Will never hold a mistake you've made against you. Nor will they remind you of it later. Says what they mean and mean what they say. Is someone you don't have to impress and you can be you with. Knows when to be quiet and listen and when to just be there. Is a gift from God.

(Image credit: Microsoft images online 2008-2014.)

Updated last on Feb/26/2014, 126 p.m.

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU EXPECT FROM THIS BLOG?

I've decided to make this blog about these two things:
1 Faith
2 Journaling

However, there are several more categories that stem from those two facets:
1 Faith.
1a Bible study, daily Bible reading, and Christian living.
1b Prayer.
1c Journaling about having a life of faith--Faith Journaling.
2 Journaling.
2a-c See 1a-c.
2d Writing about my life of faith and faith journaling in fiction, but it's really my memoir and is based on mostly fact. This is my spiritual memoir, but I will do it through faith journaling and fiction. I will call this: "A 1607 FAMILY: A STORY ABOUT FAITH AND JOURNALING."

PAST BLOGGING

PAST BLOGGING: OTHER STUFF

I've added some past blogging that I've done to this blog. 

Why? It's so this blog will include far more information than what I'm going to focus on today. But, I wanted it all here. Plus, it will give you a sampling of previous writings. I've included Bible studies, devotionals, prayer journaling, and journaling materials.


(Image Credit: Microsoft Images Online 2008-2014.)


Updated last on Feb/25/2014 at 735 a.m.

Faith Journaling Google+ Community

Do you journal?

Do you want to?

Are you a person of faith?

Check out this new community:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112850694101585502010

(Image credit: Microsoft images online 2008-2014.) 

This is a Blog for Anyone Who Wants to Keep a Journal

This is a Blog for Anyone Who Wants to Keep a Journal

I hope this blog inspires you and teaches you how to journal--as I also share my personal journaling with you. This is a blog to share in Faith Journaling--in matters of faith and matters of journaling. 

Therefore, this is a blog for you as well as it is for me.

Journaling is a way of life and is how to live. 

Do you keep a journal? Do you want to do so? This blog is for you--just as it is for, and is about, me.

Enjoy!

Journaling is a way of life.

Daily Bible Reading: How I Do It

READING AND STUDYING MORE THAN ONE VERSION OF THE BIBLE

I am one of those people who finds it far more important to be in the Bible than read only one translation. After all, I read several versions (or translations) of the Bible. Each day, it depends on my mood as to which version of the Bible I read. 

However, with that being said, when a verse jumps out at me, I make sure to study several English translations of the Bible. I study the bare minimum of three versions at that point, more often five, and ideally, I will look at all English translations when something really jumps out at me and I think I should study it as much as possible. I do this in particular when God is really speaking to me through a verse. 

Why do I do all of this? The more versions of the Bible I read, the more I will understand the Bible. 

I hope all of that made sense. I needed to give that background so you can understand why I do what I do when I read my Bible each day. 

MY DAILY BIBLE READING

So, how do I read my Bible each day?

I read it on my Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9-inch 4G Tablet or on my PC and I go to:

http://www.biblegateway.com/

Next, on the left-hand side of the page, I click on: "READING PLANS."

Then, I decide which version of the Bible I want to read that day and click on it. 

At that point, I click on "GO."

Then, I copy and paste the reading into my online journal and then as I read, I will go to a new line after the verse that speaks to me and I type: "MY NOTE:" in big letters and write anything God says to me, what I say to God, what this means for my life, and what I want to apply to my life (when and how). 

I journal anything that God tells me to at this point.

WHY?

Why do I copy and paste the entire text into my online journal? It's because I want a record of what God is doing in my life and when. I want to see it and keep it in the order in which it happens. That way, when I go back later to see what God did in my life for whatever reason, or just to review, I can see the progression of things and God's hand at work. 

Also, this will be a wonderful journal for my future kiddo to have and they can save it and pass it on to future generations. 

JOURNALING THE BIBLE

Journaling about my daily Bible reading is everything. It's the most important thing in my life and is the most important thing I do. It's how I establish and keep a relationship with God and listen to Him since I am in His Word and He speaks to me through it. 

Who Am I? My Life and Aim as a Journalkeeper

Who am I?

I am a journalkeeper. I am a keeper of a journal and have been for over thirty years now.

My life is one of journalkeeping, as I try to live a life of faith. The two go hand-in-hand.

My aim and purpose as a journalkeeper is to get my life on the page and remember the blessings of my life and my moments with God. 

Welcome to Faith Journaling

Welcome to a blog about faith, life, journaling, and the Bible. In other words, this blog is about the most important things in my life.

I hope this inspires you and motivates you to live a life of faith and of journaling. 

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~ Stacy Duplease

Christian, Writer, Journalkeeper

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