2010.... LETTING GO....2011...LOOKING AHEAD

Looking back..but only for a moment...I do Plan on working very hard on; Letting go of:

REGRETS~

saddness, disappointments, guilt, sighing.... a lot

GRUDGES I HOLD~

bitterness, enmity, anger, persistent feeling of ill will, being resentfully unwillingly to give

THINGS I CAN'T CHANGE~

 people,utterances,whatchamacallits,thingamabobs,facts

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  Looking Ahead... my Hopes and Site are set on as I Continue to Be Thankful for...and/or Working on....in no special order...
  • so grateful to God for the Grace to Believe amid the madness
  • So in Love with my Husband of almost 35 years
  • Staying in His Grip
  • Enjoying the Mountains and the Breath they give me
  • Fitness, I enjoy fitness
  • Forgiveness, a refreshing act to give and get
  • Happy to say good-bye to 2010 and set my site on 2011
  • Grateful for the friends who truly know us and love us
  • Health and Recovery
  • A roof over my head
  • Letting God do what I cannot, Doing what I can and Letting him do the rest
  • Stepping into Faith Daily, A great place to be
  • Our Grandchildren, the absolute heartbeat of our life!
  
  
  
  I VOW TO NOT RELINQUISH PRAYING FOR
  • Broken Families to reunite and reconcile
  • Dustin to be healed and seizures to go away
  • a Grandson to say words
  • Love to conquer all
  • God to help me see my struggles from His perspective
  • Asking God to bring my desires in line with his will for me
  • that God will empower all to do whatever He calls us to do
  • for my mind to be renewed each day so I can have the positive attitude I need to thrive, no matter what is going on in my life!
  • for anxieties to be turned into Truth
  • For Prosperity and the Milk and Honey of our life to be based on heart and spirit and not money
  
  
  
  If I insist on holding on to the old or familiar, I may miss the new thing God desires for me. God is in the business of making things new. By God's grace, we have a new heart, a new spirit, and a new identity.  God plants in us new possibilities, new desires and hope that does not disappoint us! Every day, in some way, God is doing a "new thing" in each of us that believe! 
  
  
  

  Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it! - Isaiah 43:18-19

  
  
  
  
  
  Looking Ahead and Moving Forward

  With God's arms wrapped around me

  
  

Not Perfect... but Better than I used to be

I realize with all honesty this much:

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  I am not perfect
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  I can be so off base in conversation
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  I have a tendency to turn conversation around to me
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  I worry more than I should
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  I read more into things said, situations at hand, than are there
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  I can be very wasteful with my time
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  I interupt when others are talking
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  I don't listen well all the time
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  I need Jesus
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  I am not perfect

Just thinking....

I am working on all of those little quirks that can make it difficult to spend time with me. I try to work on these quirks and imperfections of mine, I fail often but keep walking in faith that I will get better, not perfect but better.

Relevance

 

Life is full of turns, twists, emotions of joy, saddness, hurt, dissapointment, fear, doubt, love, kindness, compassion and hate, maybe you can think of more.  

My days used to be pretty much the same.  Same house, same job, same friends and family surrounding me, came city, same county, same roads.... get the picture...

My days now... have me  in total unawareness each day.  Unaware of how to get to the grocery without mapquest, where the closest gas station is, who my neighbors are, what bank to use, will I have a girlfriend here, where the heck my lampshades are and those coffee mugs that go with my dishes? 

While I am so unaware .... I am also so very aware of, God's Gracious Heart, His Provision, His Joy and His Presense.  Therefore, the fact that I am so unaware...is irrelevant.  Relevance is in Him.

I hang onto that when I am down, when I miss my friends and family, when life is turning in directions I am not used to and totally unaware of.  I hang onto this relevance when I am feeling alone. I have to. It really does give me Joy and Peace. 

A very good girlfriend who is quite a jet setter, flew in to give me help and it felt just like home.  It isn't the city or county or structure that makes home. It is the heart and the people.

Enjoy your day, I hope it has relevance, purpose and joy.

Celebrating Family and Friends

Our life is an open book in progress.  A writer with pen in hand, no maybe a pencil, it has an eraser... a blank page at the beginning of every day.  God knows what is on the page before the pen starts to move.  He knows, therefore we Trust it is Good Stuff.  Every morning we seek Him first and know the rest of the day will be Good.

Sharing some new pictures of a good friends 50th Surprise Birthday Party and Easter with family.

May your Days be filled with the Marvel of God, Good Friends and Family.

Ahhhh.... some of the Best Parts of Life

Enjoying the good things in life.

Roller Coaster

Seeking God today.  That I may walk in His Light, Seek His Wisdom and Know that He only wants good for me.  If I stay focused there....then all the other crap will not matter.

 Anyone ever been on a roller coaster life?  The kind that has long straight aways, slow turns, gradual hills...then BAM, it is faster, high hills to climb, fast drops, sharp turns then the cork screws just make me spin upside down and around and around...then it all starts over again, and the roller coaster lasts way too long.  I want off!  I want to NOT feel so alone.  I want to NOT feel so attacked.  Today I seek God!

Studying Esther.... It's Tough Being a Woman

Thoughts from a Bible Study I am doing today on Esther:

We don't have to think "highly" of ourselves, to think obsessively about ourselves.... hmmmmm never thought of it that way, so either way it can become a self-centered state of mind.  OH I have been there, I admit that!

Romans 12 vs 3 "For by the grace given me I say to every one of you; Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgemnent in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you."

Evaluating yourself by the worldly standards of success and achievement can Cause you to think too much about your worth in the eyes of other and thus miss your true value in God's eyes.

This was a good lesson for me this morning, now on with the rest of my day. I hope sharing God's lesson with you has brought you to chat with Him just a bit today. He loves to hear from you and awaits your conversation every day!