2011 is Here

As you get older, you are VERY aware of how quickly your life is passing by. You start quoting to people about taking time to smell the roses and appreciating each day for all it's worth .....
yadda yadda yadda.
Sometimes you hide under the covers and hope it will slow down.
This year on my 54th birthday, I read Proverbs 31:25 about the 'noble woman', "she can laugh at the days to come" and decided to take it as my verse for the year.
Come on 2011. Bring it. I am choosing the more "noble" way.
While peeking out from under my covers, laughing hard,
and oh yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Strolling Down Memory Lane

Holidays bring out the old photos and the memories.... this was me at age 5. Darling doesn't even begin to describe this.

Confession and Choosing

I am in a season of deliberate choosing.
Let's say Dean annoys the heck out of me.... and I get to choose my response. Do i smack him with some sarcasm or do i bless him with my words?
When someone balks at my controlling nature, do I inwardly begin to rage or do I let it go and really forget about it?
You would think that by the advanced age of ___, these attitudes would no longer be an issue, but instead I am being humbled daily with my tongue. It all goes back to the heart and if my tongue reflects my heart, then my heart needs some surgery.
So, Lord I am asking for daily help in controlling my tongue. I am asking for Holy Spirit intervention in my choosing deliberately to bless instead of curse.

I am deliberately choosing to love. LOVE. LOVE.
I want to be a good love-er.
amen

Servant

FUN

1. Go out and find some.
2. Allow yourself to fully embrace it.
3. Laugh till liquid snorts from your nose.
4. Begin again.

It's TOO EARLY

Saw two Christmas trees tonight in one small area. People, it isn't even the middle of November. Let's leave something too look forward to in life.
Like next month.
I refuse to sing a note of a carol or even think of where the ugly plastic tree we bought for the apartment might be hiding. Let's all just hum tunes of thanksgiving and maybe even a little rock n roll and just chill for a while. Life's speeding by too fast as it is. Slow it down people, one holiday at a time.

Count It All Joy

Still waiting on our circumstances to change. I recall not too long ago, two years or so, where I gave thanks on this blog ( for so many good things happening in my family's life and yet here I sit almost three years later, complaining about things that I am waiting on to change in our circumstances. It is hard because I want to be more mature than this. I want to be walking in "awareness" of His good and faithful provision, "Counting it all joy...". I am thankful for a group of women in my lifegroup who help keep me remembering how good of a God we serve. They listen to my woes, but remind me to keep my thoughts on things above. It is not all about me, or me and thee. It is about a mighty God who knows me and hears my cries and listens and answers. I love His answers. I may not see them, I may not feel them, but I believe them.

"Count it all joy, my brothers when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have it's full effect, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing. "

While I am
James 1:2-4