The FROG Blog

ABUNDANCE

I announce my 2021 Word of the Year! ABUNDANCE. Last year, I chose DECIPHER to practice inner growth. The decipher premise stemmed from a need to check motive: my use of time, personal connections, spending and saving money, energy output etc. What motive manifested my habits? This year’s word is ABUNDANCE. I’m challenging myself to…

LIBRARY CHALLENGE

I’m working on next week’s FROG blog about my 2021 Word of the Year to Practice: Abundance. The next 3 books in the FROG Blog series are in various pieces, with intent to publish them this year: Knee Deep, Tadpoles and Poetry Pod. I ask for your help in one of my challenges this year!…

UNIVERSAL TRANQUILITY

Joyful Christmas to all! Believing in new birth for your upcoming days and year! In reading Psalms 15, I believe if we continually responded this way, our world would look much different. (Even when I practice any one of the guidelines from Ps. 15:2-5 that becomes my daily challenge)! 1 LORD, who may dwell in your…

SALTY WARNING

Similar spice. Different table. When I’m on the cusp of a character makeover, I discover an internal salt granule threatening to embed itself into a previous flesh wound. Just when I think I’ve overcome an offense, that saline washes into another part of my life.   Salt serves as a cleaner and healer. I need…

3 Wise Gifts

As you are doing your Christmas shopping, I suggest this trinity of gifts. Just as the Magi brought 3 gifts, I hope these will be your earthly gold, frankincense and myrrh for people’s literary collection. Books by Christina M. Eder Life’s Too Short for Dull Razors, Cheap Pens, and Worn Out Underwear Christina’s first book Life’s Too…

GIFT GIVING IDEAS FOR A MINIMALIST

I approach life with a “less is more and even less is even more” practice. I prefer gifting someone with generosity, kindness, gentleness, time, listening-to-understand… Christmas and birthdays can become difficult for my circle who love gifting with material tokens of love. People ask, “If you don’t like extra material possessions, what am I supposed…

SELECTIVE TENDERING

Cain and Abel. Can and able. I see my nature in Adam and Eve’s sons, Cain and Abel. Cain worked the land. Abel tended the flocks. When offering time came to present their God-given harvest, Cain brought a seedy portion of his produce. Abel stocked a butcher block full of his animals’ first born. Scripture…

PODCAST WENT LIVE!

This is the link to my 25 minute interview with Jason Meuschke, host of The Sample Chapter Podcast. Episode 151 went live Tuesday November 10th. It featured my first two books, “Life’s Too Short for Dull Razors, Cheap Pens and Worn-Out Underwear and FROG Blog: Learning on a Lily Pad.” https://samplechapterpodcast.com/christina-m-eder-lifes-too-short-for-dull-razors-cheap-pens-and-worn-out-underwear Healthy Thanksgiving month! Sharing…

UNIVERSAL TEACHER’S PETS

A Dominican sister friend told me, “We’re all God’s favorites. He isn’t a respecter of people.” Her comment came after I said she is one of my favorite people on earth. She knew I meant this as a compliment yet gently reminded me that God doesn’t have “teacher’s pets.” Some people are easier to love….

SPRING FORWARD. FALL BACK.

Daylight savings’ time. In spring, I “lose” one clock hour. In fall, I “regain” that hour. It’s not the same hour, but in a year, 60 minutes becomes timeless. It all comes out in the watch.   Mindfully, I sometimes live in a state of daylight savings’ time. My pendulum thoughts swing between past and…