As I was taking off my shoes at the end of the day, wiggling my hurting toes my husband made a comment...
"I just do not understand why women feel the need to wear something just because it looks good even though it makes them terribly uncomfortable."
You know, those shoes that pinch our toes, those jeans that are sooo not comfortable but we are convinced that they look great on us. The undergarments that are meant to slim us....well, you get the picture.
You are not going to believe my response to him. It just came flowing out.....
You know I bet back in the day of Adam and Eve, they were hanging out in the Garden of Eden and Eve thought, you know I really do not like this fig leaf thing that is just like Adams I need to search out some better leaves and create me something a little more stylish. She found a plant with some really cute leaves and created her fancy new little outfit. She was thrilled with the result, and she looked gooood!!! But before long she began itching terribly....ohhhh...it was making her miserable. That nite she noticed she had a terrible rash...ahhhhh....it must be from my new "outfit". (think poison ivy) Oh but you know what...it is sooo dang cute! I just have to wear it!! I look so good in it and I am sure Adam thinks I look good too!!!!
At this point I notice my husband is just staring at me and slowly shaking his head with that look like, I think you have lost it!!!!
Sometimes it is truly that ridiculous, we wear that thing just because we feel like it looks good on us. The older I get and now that I have to deal with the symptoms of fibromyalgia and the muscle pain...I have to choose more wisely. I have to actually think about how it will feel to be in those adorable shoes walking in downtown LA for hours on end. And really............why???????
I now wear a purse over my body (albeit a cute one!) when I am out and about shopping lest my back and shoulders begin hurting so terribly I end up with a headache.
How many times have you made a choice just because it "looks good"? How many times have you sacrificed what really matters for what appears to be the best...on the outside?
It is never the right thing to compromise our faith just to look good to others. We need to learn to take a stand for what we believe.
"Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are."
~Brene Brown
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Life Is Good
Ahhh, some days you can just FEEL the goodness of GOD!
Nothing has to happen, nothing really changes (those pesky circumstances), but there is an air, a freshness of life that allows you to FEEL the goodness of GOD!
I know better than to live by what I feel (uhhh, not that I have perfected that yet!) but some days it feels good to FEEL GOOD!!!! Know what I mean!?
Maybe it is SPRING IN THE AIR...maybe it is having a day off....whatever it is...I like it and I shall bask in it all day long!!!!!!
"When all you have is GOD, you have ALL you need"
"God is not asking you to have your whole future figured out.
He is asking you to trust that He has your future planned."
Have a great day!!! Step outside and take a big deep breath of fresh air and send up a genuine, heartfelt thanks to GOD for all you have and all you ARE!!!!
XO
Nothing has to happen, nothing really changes (those pesky circumstances), but there is an air, a freshness of life that allows you to FEEL the goodness of GOD!
I know better than to live by what I feel (uhhh, not that I have perfected that yet!) but some days it feels good to FEEL GOOD!!!! Know what I mean!?
Maybe it is SPRING IN THE AIR...maybe it is having a day off....whatever it is...I like it and I shall bask in it all day long!!!!!!
"When all you have is GOD, you have ALL you need"
"God is not asking you to have your whole future figured out.
He is asking you to trust that He has your future planned."
Have a great day!!! Step outside and take a big deep breath of fresh air and send up a genuine, heartfelt thanks to GOD for all you have and all you ARE!!!!
XO
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
What is your PASSION?
I have been commissioned to create a couple of my special journals.
Oh how I love making these!
(I really need to come up with a clever "name" for these...a
nyone have any good ideas???)
Both of them are for 50th birthdays (which is real close to where i am in life) so it is close to my heart and easy for me to come up with the journaling prompts. I get information about the birthday person and incorporate that info into the questions that I pose within the 50 prompts.
Fun Fun!!!
When I get home from work I go into my studio and "play"...I love it! Maybe some day I can work up to making a living doing this kind of thing....that and writing. Ah, that would be my idea of the GOOD LIFE!!!
What is YOUR passion? Are you finding time to incorporate it into your life?
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive".
~Harold Whitman
Blessings!
Sherry
Oh how I love making these!
(I really need to come up with a clever "name" for these...a
nyone have any good ideas???)Both of them are for 50th birthdays (which is real close to where i am in life) so it is close to my heart and easy for me to come up with the journaling prompts. I get information about the birthday person and incorporate that info into the questions that I pose within the 50 prompts.
Fun Fun!!!
When I get home from work I go into my studio and "play"...I love it! Maybe some day I can work up to making a living doing this kind of thing....that and writing. Ah, that would be my idea of the GOOD LIFE!!!
What is YOUR passion? Are you finding time to incorporate it into your life?
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive".
~Harold Whitman
Blessings!
Sherry
Monday, April 5, 2010
Be in the moment
So far my blog posts have been so boring. No photos or anything...I guess I need to amp it up! :) Maybe....
I hope you had a wonderful weekend, a blessed Easter celebration. No matter what you did, whether you got to be with family and friends or even if you were a million miles away in another country (son!). God is with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing. He wants to bring us joy in EVERY circumstance, every day, every moment.
I pray your week is wonderful in every way.
That you "make it great".
That you look up to the sky and enjoy the beautiful cloud formations, feel the breeze against your face.
That you stop and smell the roses, literally! I will do this even at the grocery store, walking by the floral section I will lean over and take in the fresh, sweet aroma of whatever flowers are on display.
I hope you SMILE! :) When you walk past a stranger, smile at them. When you are at home brushing past your loved ones, smile at them!! It definitely brightens the day in the smallest way!
Look into the eyes of the ones you are with. Really, truly listen to what they are saying. Be interested.
Appreciate the moment you are in. BE in that moment, not worrying about the next one...or the next day for that matter!
I pray your week is full of precious moments!!!
Blessings!
XO
I hope you had a wonderful weekend, a blessed Easter celebration. No matter what you did, whether you got to be with family and friends or even if you were a million miles away in another country (son!). God is with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing. He wants to bring us joy in EVERY circumstance, every day, every moment.
I pray your week is wonderful in every way.
That you "make it great".
That you look up to the sky and enjoy the beautiful cloud formations, feel the breeze against your face.
That you stop and smell the roses, literally! I will do this even at the grocery store, walking by the floral section I will lean over and take in the fresh, sweet aroma of whatever flowers are on display.
I hope you SMILE! :) When you walk past a stranger, smile at them. When you are at home brushing past your loved ones, smile at them!! It definitely brightens the day in the smallest way!
Look into the eyes of the ones you are with. Really, truly listen to what they are saying. Be interested.
Appreciate the moment you are in. BE in that moment, not worrying about the next one...or the next day for that matter!
I pray your week is full of precious moments!!!
Blessings!
XO
Sunday, April 4, 2010
One Little Easter Egg
It is funny how things come to your mind.
I have had a precious memory of Easter a few years back rolling over in my mind for the last couple of days. I would like to share it with you, and hope you can appreciate it and the message I have found in it.
It was Easter Sunday at church. I was honored to be the adult who was taking my precious little 2 year old grandson to his Sunday school class. Once there I realized he had no intention of Mimi leaving...so stay I did! :)
Turns out they were having an Easter egg hunt. How fun!! I was excited for him and talked it up as we walked hand in hand to the big patch of grass they had all roped off for this big hunt. He carried his little basket and watched the other kids, but truly had no idea what he was doing, or what was expected of him.
The teachers lined all the kids up at the opening to this grassy area, most of them were anxious and ready, the older ones knew what was coming and they were ready to take off. My little guy still had hold of my hand.
When the word was given that they could GO...most of the children took off quickly. Not my little guy, he just sauntered onto the grassy knoll. I was pointing and hinting and helping him along. He watched the others, in no hurry at all, taking it all in. He finally decided to join in the hunt and find an egg of his own, he plucked his first little colored egg from a nearby bush and proceeded to SIT down, right then and there.
Of course I had to explain to him how this works...again! He was not phased, he was completely satisfied with that one pretty egg. He was trying to open it up to see what all this fuss was about and here I was telling him to get up and get MORE.
Hmmmm....he just sat there a while.
Of course he eventually did get up and join in the rest of the hunt. He did not gather many eggs since most of them had already been snatched up. No worries he was still just as happy and content as could be with his collection.
When we met up with the rest of the family after the service he was quite proud of his tiny little gathering of colored plastic eggs, showing them off and even offering to share them.
I have been thinking about my grandsons actions that day. The way he joined in on the big search and once he found what he was looking for, he was CONTENT. He was happy to sit and enjoy that which he had just discovered. He was blissful enough to sit down amongst the hubbub that surrounded him and just BE. He was anxious to open it up and see what treasure it beheld and that was enough for him.
He came, He saw, He accepted the gift and now he was ready to enjoy it.
Nothing else really mattered to him at that time...Oh, except that he wanted to share it with each one of us! He was so excited that he wanted us to have some too.
I will always remember that precious scene and I hope to always remember the message it holds. The message of being content and peaceful enough to sit and enjoy, to be happy with whatever is in my hands and to be anxious to share that which I have.
WOW! Lord I pray you help me to do just that. That I will always live a life of contentment, peace and love. Let me be just like that two year old sweet boy of mine sitting peacefully in the grassy knoll enjoying that sweet precious gift.
Are you peaceful and content with what you have? Are you looking beyond what you already have in your hands? Do you run to and fro looking for the next egg or are you good with the one you have. There is pretty much the same thing in each egg. Once you have it in your hands are you good to go, good to sit down and enjoy that which you have and then share it with others?
Well, I am off to see that very same grandson (and his big sister and little brother) I just wonder what lessons these precious ones of mine will show me today? I know I will be watching and waiting to see, as I sit there, perfectly content!
Peace and love to you this Easter sunday!
Sherry
I have had a precious memory of Easter a few years back rolling over in my mind for the last couple of days. I would like to share it with you, and hope you can appreciate it and the message I have found in it.
It was Easter Sunday at church. I was honored to be the adult who was taking my precious little 2 year old grandson to his Sunday school class. Once there I realized he had no intention of Mimi leaving...so stay I did! :)
Turns out they were having an Easter egg hunt. How fun!! I was excited for him and talked it up as we walked hand in hand to the big patch of grass they had all roped off for this big hunt. He carried his little basket and watched the other kids, but truly had no idea what he was doing, or what was expected of him.
The teachers lined all the kids up at the opening to this grassy area, most of them were anxious and ready, the older ones knew what was coming and they were ready to take off. My little guy still had hold of my hand.
When the word was given that they could GO...most of the children took off quickly. Not my little guy, he just sauntered onto the grassy knoll. I was pointing and hinting and helping him along. He watched the others, in no hurry at all, taking it all in. He finally decided to join in the hunt and find an egg of his own, he plucked his first little colored egg from a nearby bush and proceeded to SIT down, right then and there.
Of course I had to explain to him how this works...again! He was not phased, he was completely satisfied with that one pretty egg. He was trying to open it up to see what all this fuss was about and here I was telling him to get up and get MORE.
Hmmmm....he just sat there a while.
Of course he eventually did get up and join in the rest of the hunt. He did not gather many eggs since most of them had already been snatched up. No worries he was still just as happy and content as could be with his collection.
When we met up with the rest of the family after the service he was quite proud of his tiny little gathering of colored plastic eggs, showing them off and even offering to share them.
I have been thinking about my grandsons actions that day. The way he joined in on the big search and once he found what he was looking for, he was CONTENT. He was happy to sit and enjoy that which he had just discovered. He was blissful enough to sit down amongst the hubbub that surrounded him and just BE. He was anxious to open it up and see what treasure it beheld and that was enough for him.
He came, He saw, He accepted the gift and now he was ready to enjoy it.
Nothing else really mattered to him at that time...Oh, except that he wanted to share it with each one of us! He was so excited that he wanted us to have some too.
I will always remember that precious scene and I hope to always remember the message it holds. The message of being content and peaceful enough to sit and enjoy, to be happy with whatever is in my hands and to be anxious to share that which I have.
WOW! Lord I pray you help me to do just that. That I will always live a life of contentment, peace and love. Let me be just like that two year old sweet boy of mine sitting peacefully in the grassy knoll enjoying that sweet precious gift.
Are you peaceful and content with what you have? Are you looking beyond what you already have in your hands? Do you run to and fro looking for the next egg or are you good with the one you have. There is pretty much the same thing in each egg. Once you have it in your hands are you good to go, good to sit down and enjoy that which you have and then share it with others?
Well, I am off to see that very same grandson (and his big sister and little brother) I just wonder what lessons these precious ones of mine will show me today? I know I will be watching and waiting to see, as I sit there, perfectly content!
Peace and love to you this Easter sunday!
Sherry
HE IS RISEN!!!!!!
What more could we possibly ask for?
What more could we possibly want?
There really is no better news in our lives than this three word phrase.
I am thankful that our Father in Heaven loved us, each and every one of us, so much that He would sacrifice His ONE and ONLY Son!!!
That we should have life.
Honestly I cannot wrap my mind around this thought.
I have a son. He is my one and only son.
To be honest with you I cannot imagine "giving him up for the sins of the world."
Seriously.
My heart is humbled, my eyes are open a little more each day, to the ultimate sacrifice, the price He paid for ME!
It is a whole different story when you make it personal and KNOW deep in your heart that if you were the only person alive on this earth, He still would have done that. He still would have given His one and only Son, for YOU...just YOU!!!!!!
YOU ARE ENOUGH!
I ask myself....Am I living like someone who has been given the greatest gift? Am I honoring my Lord with my life? After all, someone had to die that I might live.
WOW.....
I need to live my life to make up for that. I need to live in a way that makes that ultimate sacrifice worth something!!!
O Lord I pray I am doing just that....I doubt I ever will live up to my full potential, because I am a flawed human being. I try. I will continue to try for the rest of my life to live the life that you saw fit to sacrifice so much for. I pray my life will be a living testament to YOU!!!
I pray you will join me in living our best lives, doing our best for HIM! I am humbled to think I can ever come close to being enough...but He tells me I am.
I want to tell you that YOU ARE!
YOU ARE ENOUGH!!!!!!
Live in that renewed awareness on this most awesome Easter Sunday.
Enjoy your blessings, enjoy your day.
Blessings,
Sherry
What more could we possibly want?
There really is no better news in our lives than this three word phrase.
I am thankful that our Father in Heaven loved us, each and every one of us, so much that He would sacrifice His ONE and ONLY Son!!!
That we should have life.
Honestly I cannot wrap my mind around this thought.
I have a son. He is my one and only son.
To be honest with you I cannot imagine "giving him up for the sins of the world."
Seriously.
My heart is humbled, my eyes are open a little more each day, to the ultimate sacrifice, the price He paid for ME!
It is a whole different story when you make it personal and KNOW deep in your heart that if you were the only person alive on this earth, He still would have done that. He still would have given His one and only Son, for YOU...just YOU!!!!!!
YOU ARE ENOUGH!
I ask myself....Am I living like someone who has been given the greatest gift? Am I honoring my Lord with my life? After all, someone had to die that I might live.
WOW.....
I need to live my life to make up for that. I need to live in a way that makes that ultimate sacrifice worth something!!!
O Lord I pray I am doing just that....I doubt I ever will live up to my full potential, because I am a flawed human being. I try. I will continue to try for the rest of my life to live the life that you saw fit to sacrifice so much for. I pray my life will be a living testament to YOU!!!
I pray you will join me in living our best lives, doing our best for HIM! I am humbled to think I can ever come close to being enough...but He tells me I am.
I want to tell you that YOU ARE!
YOU ARE ENOUGH!!!!!!
Live in that renewed awareness on this most awesome Easter Sunday.
Enjoy your blessings, enjoy your day.
Blessings,
Sherry
Thursday, April 1, 2010
No matter the Weather....
I woke up this morning to a crisp, cloudy day. My kind of weather actually. I am the kind of gal that likes a variety of weather actually.
I was out and about running errands most of the day. It seems everywhere you go people are commenting about the weather. "Sure hope it does not rain on Easter" ... things like that.
Now, we live in the desert, there is never much rain, and what rain we get we desperately NEED. So I am always a bit taken aback when people are so against the impending rainy weather. (I have been in the position that when it rained we did not get work so I do understand that part completely!!!)
Anyway, while I was checking out of one store...a lady and I had a sweet little conversation. She was going on about hoping it did not rain on Easter....I replied with "well, either way, it will be a good day to be with our loved ones celebrating our risen savior!!!" She looked up at me, I knew we were on the same page and she said, "It does not matter the weather, either way we are going to be together."
EXACTLY!
I think it is time to realize that no matter the weather, when we are together, that is all that truly matters!
If it rains on Easter...hide the Easter eggs in the house and have a whole new kind of hunt. Spread a blanket on the living room floor and have a picnic inside. Play board games instead of the outdoor activities you had planned.
Just make it a point of ENJOYING yourself and the ones you are blessed enough to be with.
"The best thing to do when it's raining is to let it rain"
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring your own Sunshine (Sonshine!!!)"
~Anthony J D'Angelo
Love & Blessings to you as you enjoy whatever the weather!
XO
I was out and about running errands most of the day. It seems everywhere you go people are commenting about the weather. "Sure hope it does not rain on Easter" ... things like that.
Now, we live in the desert, there is never much rain, and what rain we get we desperately NEED. So I am always a bit taken aback when people are so against the impending rainy weather. (I have been in the position that when it rained we did not get work so I do understand that part completely!!!)
Anyway, while I was checking out of one store...a lady and I had a sweet little conversation. She was going on about hoping it did not rain on Easter....I replied with "well, either way, it will be a good day to be with our loved ones celebrating our risen savior!!!" She looked up at me, I knew we were on the same page and she said, "It does not matter the weather, either way we are going to be together."
EXACTLY!
I think it is time to realize that no matter the weather, when we are together, that is all that truly matters!
If it rains on Easter...hide the Easter eggs in the house and have a whole new kind of hunt. Spread a blanket on the living room floor and have a picnic inside. Play board games instead of the outdoor activities you had planned.
Just make it a point of ENJOYING yourself and the ones you are blessed enough to be with.
"The best thing to do when it's raining is to let it rain"
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring your own Sunshine (Sonshine!!!)"
~Anthony J D'Angelo
Love & Blessings to you as you enjoy whatever the weather!
XO
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