It's Early

So has anyone started thinking Fall yet?  I know with the heat it is hard to have enough energy to do a lot!  However, since I have not been released yet, I have a few things to share. 

I am a Scarecrow fan, so I found Him and knew He needed to greet everyone coming in the side door.

Then, I started thinking I am tired of the mantel, so I have started adding some things to make it look like my favorite time of the year.  It is still a work in progress!

So that is it so far!  Has anyone else started transitioning into a different season yet?

Just one more, Nick is wanting to nap and wishing I would just sit down and stitch!  So I guess I will!   Have a great weekend.  

God loves you right where you are, I invite you to love Him and be the someone you want someone to be to you to others.

Disappointed

I had planned on going to church this morning.  I thought of my Grandmother yesterday and even mocked one of her Saturday afternoon rituals.  I painted my nails!   She would roll her hair on brush rollers and sit under the dryer several times during the day.  Then late Saturday afternoon she would do her nails all in preparation for church.  After her nails were dry she would select her dress, shoes, jewelry, and sometimes hat!  I love her and often think of her, she was fun!

I never made it to church today because I have miserable insomnia.   Sleep = healing and happiness.  Debbie without sleep = a weepy, miserable mess.  I thought surely I would sleep today and I would go to church tonight. Nope.  So today hasn't gone as plan.  Being content in all situations hasn't happened today.

Tomorrow is full of doctor appointments and being told I am doing great and me not sleeping is just part of it and it will go away soon.  I am sure it will but when you are going through it, misery!  So all and all I'm good I just need some sleep.

I need to go get my pillows and watch for the super moon tonight!  I pray I miss it!

Jesse is coming home!

Tomorrow night can't come soon enough for our family!  Jesse is coming home!  He has been in Armenia for two years with the Peace Corps.  I can't wait to hear his stories and just to see him.  A lot has happened since he has been away, so we naturally have lots to talk about.  Mike and Nancy will be at the airport with bells on to get him tomorrow nite.  We are all excited and proud he is coming home!  

I received a good report today from one of my doctors.   She said to still take it really easy for awhile and to rest often.  Of course I will do what I am told but some days I get antsy!   I am thankful to the good Lord I am improving each day.  My continual prayers for those fighting to have normalcy in their life, the homeless, hopeless and to the folks in prison whether they are there because they should be or wrongly convicted.


God is good and I praise His high and holy name.

Thankful vs thankless

For me, being thankful and being in a thankful state of mind makes my heart, and body feel full, happy, calm and peaceful.  Just the opposite feeling when I am not thankful,  I feel empty, anxious, sad.  My question is why  do I allow the negative to even get in my mind?  If I know it.is.no.good and self-destructive why bother?  

A prayer life and laying everything down at Jesus's feet and letting Him,  is the Very foundation of true recovery from dark thoughts, and being miserable.  He already knows me and loves me so actually verbalizing to Him how I am feel is not going to shock Him or tell Him anything He doesn't already know.  And yes He loves me, right.where.I.am.   That just blows me away.   

I am thankful today for:  God, Mark,family, His word, light, the ability to feel, hear, touch, smell,the gift of love and feeling love, friends, better health, church family, sisters, the ones who carry the Light without weariness, missionaries, memories, my Daddy and his sweet smile and personality, my faithful Mother, grandparents, Mrs. Certain for taking me to vacation Bible school,  for knowing the difference between right and wrong...............

I was thinking earlier how I knew Mark's favorite color, food, his favorite places to visit, and mostly everything he likes and dislikes.  Then I realized I had no ideal what his favorite Bible verse is!?  How sad that I had not asked Him this most important question ever?  How sad I did not know what Mark carries close in his heart.  So I am going to close with Mark's favorite (one of his, I learned there are a few) Bible verses.  It comes from I Thessalonians 4:11-12, "make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.  

I seek a closer walk with God and hope if I have misled anyone or haven't been a good example you will forgive me.  Grace, grace God's grace!

One day at a time, II Thessalonians 5: 16-18.