When I first began composing this post in my head I had every intention of writing:
Due to very sad/private family circumstances I will not be posting for quite awhile.
Yet every time I envisioned this as a ‘published’ post I just could not commit to walking away for an undetermined amount of time.
I need this place [...]
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Outside My Window…there is a birdbath that needs to be filled. Lately the afternoon showers have been keeping it full and fresh but it did not rain yesterday. I see five birds stopping by for breakfast but a Blue Jay just swooped in and claimed both feeders as his [...]
But you must remember, you are a child of the Most High God. Just because something didn’t work out your way or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
If one dream dies, dream another dream.
If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
When one door closes, God will always open [...]
A precious moment…when one of my students shouted out in class Wednesday night, ‘This class rocks!’. I think it does (grin) but it is always satisfying when a student does.
I am grateful….for a husband that helps me make decisions. Miss Sam was scheduled for the second class in the three part ‘Techno-Pop’ class at one [...]
As I went to bed last night lost in a sea of self doubt I thought for sure I would remain adrift for many more days.
I had made a decision last night, in a moment of sheer panic, to stop writing for Take Root and Write and Praising My Savior.
I emailed Noelle (the awesome woman [...]
From where I am sitting I can see the raindrops trickle down the leaves of my newly planted petunias. I see the Lizard family running for their home deep inside the foilage of last year’s Lantana plantings. I see the flash of lightning cut across the sky and hear the distant rumble of thunder as [...]
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Outside My Window…I am watching a woodpecker about an arm’s length from me eat breakfast from the feeders I FINALLY refilled. We go through about two bags of seed a week and (just like kids) they flock to our house ’cause we have the ‘good stuff’. I’d rather put [...]
Thanks to Beth Dargis over at My Simpler Life and Peggy from The Simple Woman for being the inspiration behind My Joyful Journal.
Some joyful thoughts from this week are:
A precious moment…was when Marbles and Snickers were sitting at opposite ends of the couch and Snickers began ‘inching’ her way over to Marbles. One small step [...]
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