Reason to Rejoice

I love days like today!! Days where I worship my Savior. The sun was shining. We shared lunch with treasured friends who remind us that God is good and He is faithful. Afternoon spent with precious girlfriends, talking, laughing, and living.  Today, the anniversary of my Granny's death could have been spent gloomy and sorrowful but instead I am clinging to His promises and His goodness.  God is good, SO GOOD!!!!  " Through these trials You have always been faithful You bring healing to my soul I am not alone, I am not alone  You will go before me You will never leave me"

I enjoy time with my friends...away from normal activities where we can have time to just sit and share.  I don't get to do this as often as I would like for various reasons, but when I do, I cherish the moments. The other night, I was privileged to sit and visit with a friend that I feel like I know pretty well.  We laughed and talked over coffee (and a smoothie) and I just learned so much about her that I did not know.  She shared part of a story, a special time in her life, and it meant so much.  What I realized at the end of this evening, when I was back home, was that sharing new stories with someone that I have known for 10 years makes me feel even more connected and closer with her.  You often hear people say, concerning spouses on anniversaries, "I love you more today than the day we married."  While that can sound like a cliche there is likely a lot of truth in that statement.  Why?  Well, simply because you grow closer together each year (hopefully) in your

When you fall down, it is hard sometimes to get back up.  It can be painful to continue on but most of the time, you will be glad that you did. I am one who likes object lessons, mainly because I am a visual learner.  I like to have something to visualize in order for something make sense to me.  Friday, I started a new exercise program called Camp Gladiator.  It is quite popular all over the globe so you may have heard of it.  I have done many things over the years to try to lose weight, diets, gym memberships, etc. so this is not an advertisement for that necessarily, but I did find it to be quite fun.  What I also found was that it was hard!  Another thing I found hard was the concrete as I hit it full force with my body when I fell!!  That’s right, I fell!  I am not the most coordinated person I know, to say the least, and I find myself falling more the older I get.  I blame it on my equilibrium…or something.  Ha! Nevertheless, I hit the ground as I was taking

I love to read but I am not a fast reader.  A good friend of mine recently let me borrow Beth Moore’s new book Audacious .  I do love Beth Moore, and generally, I can pick up one of her books and read it in a fairly short period of time.  This book was a little harder for me.  I am not sure if it is because the word "audacious" just seems to be a weird word to me or just because it was a difficult book to get into, but whatever the reason, I am almost finished with the book and I love it now! Last night I was able to read and before I knew it, my clock on my wall was chiming the Beatles’ song "Let It Be" to let me know it was midnight.  My eyes were getting a little crossed or I would have sat there and finished the book.  I have also been reading through the Bible daily, something that has always been a struggle for me but, thankfully I found a great blogger that made a schedule for daily Scripture writing/reading and it is keeping me on t

Wiping the dust off the 'ole blog tonight.  I have missed this.  I love to write.  I love being able to look back on what my kids did...what we did as a family.  I hope to blog a little more regularly in 2016. As I thought about what to write about, I had many different things come to mind but really I will just start off with my desires for the new year.  Every year I think about what I can do to make this year even better than the year before.  That is always my problem...with everything in life.  I.  What can I do....the problem is that I just try too hard.  I am a perfectionist by nature.  That is just simply who I am.  I like things to just fall into place.  I like to have a plan and when that plan does not work out, my life seems to crash down on top of me at a devastating speed.  I know that sounds dramatic, but honestly, it is true.  I can be having a great day and one thing....tiny thing can make me lose control.  Control.  That is what perfectionism is all about.  Hav