Words with purpose

Love Forgive Trust let go Choose Be Accept Try Try again And again Pick up Walk Forward Look ahead Ask Grateful Thankful SMILE laugh laugh laugh Care Take care antisipate surrender don't surrender Hold on (or not ) strength courage boundaries Play Work Worship FAMILY FRIENDS Value GOD persistence Relax Enjoy Self -control Patience Gentle Kindness Sleep Eat Rest Talk and talk some more Work it out Listen Quiet be Still Know be Sure Time take Time make Time Seconds Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years How ever long it takes Forever Just a breath away LIFE LIVE LIFE

just do something!

Taken back a few notches ,when I feel I have no control over the frustrations and pain someone else is struggling in."Do any thing,save to lie down and die!"Nathaniel Hawthorne My first response is to start giving advise,not a good thing ,most don't want advise.Besides ,who am I to think my answers are always right?So... what to do when you get dragged into other folks business? Drag yourself back out!!!!!!

life for real

It was 41 years ago today I married the man of my youthful dreams.We met when I was only 14,innocent, and much younger than I thought I was. Good friends for 3 long years, he decided I might be a girl to marry ,and so we did. Yeah, at 17 years old I was married !! He went to Viet Nam 3 weeks later and that was a growing up time for us both. Over tall mountains, through deep valleys, in and out of ditches,together. And today I can say I love him more.

not to worry

"Not to worry" this is a quote of my precious Stepmom's ,Tamar.And she says it with such conviction you really believe worry is so out of place . What is it we are instructed, take no thought for the tomorrow ,there's enough troubles for today?

innocence

I've been blessed to have a little 1 year old grand daughter in my care this week. You forget there is such a thing as innocence ,until a baby is around. However, by one a child has already learned how to pull the strings ,should i dare to say, minipulate? now when is this no longer an innocent behavior? i think maybe that's up to those in charge ,the ones directing them to right and wrong .no wonder there is so much confusion these days in the minds of the young, we forget to teach and then get angry when we see out of control children. I say they are innocent until we teach,show them a different way. It falls on our shoulders ,we who are not so innocent,but would rather blame the kid. We must step up to the plate and help build character. Well i am blessed at her innocense ,i am blessed to say she's mine!

heart

I guess a broken heart is better than no heart at all .Tears are for healing and drowning out the thoughts.

doing what's best?

We want to always do what we think is best for ourselves and the people we love. Being we don't know all that's going on from every angle ,it's not easy being sure htat our choices are the best every time. Grace is such a big issue for me . I have a hard time with making others take responsibility for their actions because I just want to show grace. I know this doesn't teach much of a lesson, or ... does it?I just want life to be simpler and more peaceful, more accepting of the imperfections of one another. more tolerance and room for the young to grow into loving ,responsible adults. Remembering that none of us are a finished product yet. Lots of growing to do and with that comes disappointment,you know ,not doing it right most of the time. I need the family and friends I have, to know I love them,YOU,sooooooooo much more yhan you know!

unsure

sometimes I feel so unsure. I start doubting my ability to discern what's really going on in the hearts of others. I know its not mine to understand ,but it would make communication so much simpler. The walls of insecurity in relationships could be torn down if only the heart could be seen. So glad God does see the heart of us all and loves us anyway. I want to believe it would be easier if we knew all the answers ,maybe not.

what to do?

When you love someone so much but ,can't get through to them , when you want to fix things for someone who won't listen, when you know life could be easier for them if they would .What to do when you see the struggle on their face, but can't do anything about it.I would that all the questions to life had clear answers .

connecting

I remember the year 1968 so well ,and what a task it was to reach someone from a distance. My husband went to Viet Nam 3 weeks after we were married. That was when you bought air mail stamps and hoped your letters made it to there destination. Also, we talked once,him there ,me here, by phone ,actually by radio,you know ,over,hello over. And for Christmas that year I sent him a tape recorder so he and I could send tapes to each other, it was such a awesome connection for the two of us. Still we wrote long letters, once over 30 pages!! Today the guys at war or in far away places,serving our country, can instantly send a message.WOW .......I don't know.... waiting every day for my sweethearts letters, listening to those tapes over and over again and again,some how we really got to know each other,really connected. I never thought then that a day would come when I could say those days were happy ones,but they were.Today,41 years later, we are happily together.Iguess our first year we connected pretty well!!!!!!

should have edited that last post ,misspelled their as there whom.......

why is it?

.....that we are so afraid to let others know ,we are broken and weak,lonely,struggling to just face the thoughts inside our heads ,let alone to face the moment of reality? why is it we stay inside our walls of conflict ,going into a place of deeper lonliness ,breathing shallow breathes of fear? why can't we just reach up and out of self to oneanother, giving them permission to reach out to us in there need as well? this life is certainly too short to fake it. If we were intended to stand alone , why didn't God just stop at Adam?