100 Day Creative Challenge Day 46 God Jar
Today I’m beginning my God Jar. It will sit on my desk as a reminder to put notes to myself in it that will represent my gratitude, prayers, dreams, problems and hopes for this year. I’ll fill it with post-it notes that I’ll read at the end of the year as a random record of how this year pans out.
Normally at this time of year we’ve sorted out the calendar for the year and have each month scheduled, however, this year the plans are loose. We realised that you need space to breathe during the year and that life doesn’t always go according to plan.
My God Jar will be a reminder that life is a rainbow of experiences.
In 2015 the first half of the year went to plan and I travelled and wrote. In the second half of the year I had two surgeries and our son got married, so the plans I had so carefully constructed were blown away.
I wrote about faith the other day and the fact that we have to take risks in creating and releasing our work. It’s the same with our plans. We might write our plans out in our leather-bound diaries or schedule them in Entourage or mark them on our year planners, but life is not perfect. Life brings things we don’t expect—good and bad.
So, I’m going to write my plans on a calendar then pray my prayers, give my thanks, dream my dreams, write notes on post-its and place them in my God Jar. A God Jar is not magical but it is a tangible reminder of the spiritual.
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