Monday, January 30, 2012
today i will rejoice: o happy day
today i will rejoice: o happy day: This is the day the lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24 So much to be thankful for!!! My favorite part of t...
o happy day
This is the day the lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24
So much to be thankful for!!!
My favorite part of this whole week may seem small and insignificant based on evrything that is happening, but thats okay, it's my heart that was touched!
We finally opened up the new salon!!!! YEAH!! whew what alot of work and it looks awesome! I can't beleive I actually finished something! I'm great at starting and haveing ideas, but i'm not good at follow through, God gave me an awesome husband, thats for sure!
But thats not the best part of my week by far!
Finally had date night, at a fancy smancy place! Yes, we had a gift card!! how nice to just talk and laugh and be together!
that comes close but wasn't the top!
This small littel peice is.
I walk out to my car and in the fresh fallen snow is a messgae written with a 7 year old finger, happy day, I think is what it said! Hard to make it out completely because the wind was blowing new snow on top of it.
SIMPLE.
HAPPY DAY
yes. it was a happy day! and today in the midst of life and watching my dreams come true, and walking knowingly down the path God has paved for me, it is a very happy day.
this week I encountered several tragic stories, stories that have saddened me greatly, young women with rare cancers, losing babies in car accidents, tumors, suicides, heart ccancers, some I've never met but have heard through a friend and we as a family have been praying for them and then I meet a family memeber of that person! My heart has been heavy this week for them, but in the midst of that, somehow I feel closer to God than I have in a long time. Prayer I'm realizing is far more powerful than I can wrap my mind around. I read this verse in revelations 8;4 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand, I wonder if all of my prayers make a differnce sometimes, then I read this and they actually create an aroma in heaven, wow. thats my only word.
So even with the hard news, long suffering of these families, in this time not to be insensitive, I keep praying and I keep enjoying my life with those around me, because I will never know if and when it could be one of them or me, and i don't want tot live with regrets anymore, allready done that. I want a life filled with beautiful memories. So yes today is a happy day.
So much to be thankful for!!!
My favorite part of this whole week may seem small and insignificant based on evrything that is happening, but thats okay, it's my heart that was touched!
We finally opened up the new salon!!!! YEAH!! whew what alot of work and it looks awesome! I can't beleive I actually finished something! I'm great at starting and haveing ideas, but i'm not good at follow through, God gave me an awesome husband, thats for sure!
But thats not the best part of my week by far!
Finally had date night, at a fancy smancy place! Yes, we had a gift card!! how nice to just talk and laugh and be together!
that comes close but wasn't the top!
This small littel peice is.
I walk out to my car and in the fresh fallen snow is a messgae written with a 7 year old finger, happy day, I think is what it said! Hard to make it out completely because the wind was blowing new snow on top of it.
SIMPLE.
HAPPY DAY
yes. it was a happy day! and today in the midst of life and watching my dreams come true, and walking knowingly down the path God has paved for me, it is a very happy day.
this week I encountered several tragic stories, stories that have saddened me greatly, young women with rare cancers, losing babies in car accidents, tumors, suicides, heart ccancers, some I've never met but have heard through a friend and we as a family have been praying for them and then I meet a family memeber of that person! My heart has been heavy this week for them, but in the midst of that, somehow I feel closer to God than I have in a long time. Prayer I'm realizing is far more powerful than I can wrap my mind around. I read this verse in revelations 8;4 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand, I wonder if all of my prayers make a differnce sometimes, then I read this and they actually create an aroma in heaven, wow. thats my only word.
So even with the hard news, long suffering of these families, in this time not to be insensitive, I keep praying and I keep enjoying my life with those around me, because I will never know if and when it could be one of them or me, and i don't want tot live with regrets anymore, allready done that. I want a life filled with beautiful memories. So yes today is a happy day.
Monday, January 16, 2012
today is a good day
This is the day the LORD has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
What am I thankful for tody?
My life is a good life.
I'm healthy.
I never really was thankful for that, but lately there are many people around me, young people being diganosed with brain tumors, cancer, unexplained illness. And I complain about the last 10 pounds.
I have children.
Some wait for years and never have children, some lose their children tragically too young, some have lost them to drugs and other addictions. Some have to love with knowing they have a terminal illness.
My girls are alive, healthy, and happy! What a blessing in my life!
I have a wonderful husband.
What a joy it is to be married to my best friend. We have a unique love that I think most only dream of having. How fortunate we are.
I have a home..
A beautiful littel green house where all these wonderful memories are being made!
I feel like I'm bragging, but I'm not. It sounds like my life is perfect, but it's not.
God is taking what was meant for evil and turning it into something beautiful
Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today
Not saying people are being kept alive by me, just the point that God took the beautiful life I was given and all of the suffering and tragedy that occurred in it, and did not let it be for nothing. He is taking that and turning it into something beautiful. I never would of chosen this path, the pain was immense, the abuse still haunts me, but now on the other side looking back, it has brought me to where I am so in some twisted way I give thanks. Not for what happened but was is happening now, but that could'nt be without what happened. I guess it may only make sense to me in my head.
I give thanks for a fresh start. I give thanks for all the things I so easily take for granted. I rejoice in the blessings of creating this beautiful life, and am thankful for the strength to walk through it.
Today is a good day, I'm going to enjoy it and not worry about all that is surrounding me, and the littel troubles that seem big in the moment, because I know without a doubt God will provide, he will answer and he will turn it into something beautiful, I say this not just because His word says this, but because I have seen it, experienced it, touched it.
Yep, today is a good day.
What am I thankful for tody?
My life is a good life.
I'm healthy.
I never really was thankful for that, but lately there are many people around me, young people being diganosed with brain tumors, cancer, unexplained illness. And I complain about the last 10 pounds.
I have children.
Some wait for years and never have children, some lose their children tragically too young, some have lost them to drugs and other addictions. Some have to love with knowing they have a terminal illness.
My girls are alive, healthy, and happy! What a blessing in my life!
I have a wonderful husband.
What a joy it is to be married to my best friend. We have a unique love that I think most only dream of having. How fortunate we are.
I have a home..
A beautiful littel green house where all these wonderful memories are being made!
I feel like I'm bragging, but I'm not. It sounds like my life is perfect, but it's not.
God is taking what was meant for evil and turning it into something beautiful
Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today
Not saying people are being kept alive by me, just the point that God took the beautiful life I was given and all of the suffering and tragedy that occurred in it, and did not let it be for nothing. He is taking that and turning it into something beautiful. I never would of chosen this path, the pain was immense, the abuse still haunts me, but now on the other side looking back, it has brought me to where I am so in some twisted way I give thanks. Not for what happened but was is happening now, but that could'nt be without what happened. I guess it may only make sense to me in my head.
I give thanks for a fresh start. I give thanks for all the things I so easily take for granted. I rejoice in the blessings of creating this beautiful life, and am thankful for the strength to walk through it.
Today is a good day, I'm going to enjoy it and not worry about all that is surrounding me, and the littel troubles that seem big in the moment, because I know without a doubt God will provide, he will answer and he will turn it into something beautiful, I say this not just because His word says this, but because I have seen it, experienced it, touched it.
Yep, today is a good day.
Friday, January 13, 2012
today i will rejoice: seeing beyond
today i will rejoice: seeing beyond: This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 Amazing what a littel excercise and a goods night sle...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
seeing beyond
This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
Amazing what a littel excercise and a goods night sleep can do!!! I feel wonderful!!! I never should of plugged in the heating blanket though, I could stay in these blankets all day!!
Today I am thankful for the ability to see beyond. Beyond the mess, beyond the chaos, beyond the extra money required, beyond what is seeming to take forever.
We are remodeling an old salon into a very contemporary, very cool and upbeat salon/art studio. I thought it would take a week. It is taking alot longer than that and all these littel problems keep coming up that are slowing us down. Problems below the surface that no one knew was there.
Like my own heart. It always looks good from the outside, but if you really start to pull back the layers something else is revealed, things I thought were buried so deep no one, not even myself would ever discover.
We painted the walls and as the paint is drying it blisters all over, we keep peeling the paint away and repainting, still not working, so we texture and mud the area, repaint, still bubbeling. My heart is that wall, layers and layers of stuff to hide the yucky stuff, but like the walls, it's covered in mud. We realize the walls had been wallpapered a million years ago and repainted a hundred times, but the shiney gloss I was applying was reacting with the old glue from the wallpaper. No one had ever taken the time to scrape it away and start anew.
I think how many times do I ,do we try to hide under the shiney gloss? All it takes is a great hair day, some pretty lipgloss and a nice big smile, but soon the bubbels will come forth, and like the blistering walls the heart that has been wounded, covered in mud, blisters, almost begging to be scraped clean and made anew.
I know that in the grand scheme of things, it dosen't really matter if the salon opens a week or two later, somehow the money will come and everything will work out. what matters is that it's been restored and from that day forward I know it is how it should be,the blisters are gone and the roughness that peeks through the glitter, well that's okay because like my heart there will be healing and it's okay to let the rough edges show, those scars are my story, and they helped form who I am, and I don't need to cover it in mud anymore.
Amazing what a littel excercise and a goods night sleep can do!!! I feel wonderful!!! I never should of plugged in the heating blanket though, I could stay in these blankets all day!!
Today I am thankful for the ability to see beyond. Beyond the mess, beyond the chaos, beyond the extra money required, beyond what is seeming to take forever.
We are remodeling an old salon into a very contemporary, very cool and upbeat salon/art studio. I thought it would take a week. It is taking alot longer than that and all these littel problems keep coming up that are slowing us down. Problems below the surface that no one knew was there.
Like my own heart. It always looks good from the outside, but if you really start to pull back the layers something else is revealed, things I thought were buried so deep no one, not even myself would ever discover.
We painted the walls and as the paint is drying it blisters all over, we keep peeling the paint away and repainting, still not working, so we texture and mud the area, repaint, still bubbeling. My heart is that wall, layers and layers of stuff to hide the yucky stuff, but like the walls, it's covered in mud. We realize the walls had been wallpapered a million years ago and repainted a hundred times, but the shiney gloss I was applying was reacting with the old glue from the wallpaper. No one had ever taken the time to scrape it away and start anew.
I think how many times do I ,do we try to hide under the shiney gloss? All it takes is a great hair day, some pretty lipgloss and a nice big smile, but soon the bubbels will come forth, and like the blistering walls the heart that has been wounded, covered in mud, blisters, almost begging to be scraped clean and made anew.
I know that in the grand scheme of things, it dosen't really matter if the salon opens a week or two later, somehow the money will come and everything will work out. what matters is that it's been restored and from that day forward I know it is how it should be,the blisters are gone and the roughness that peeks through the glitter, well that's okay because like my heart there will be healing and it's okay to let the rough edges show, those scars are my story, and they helped form who I am, and I don't need to cover it in mud anymore.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
endurance
This is the day the Lord has made and I WILL rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm118:24
My heart is filled with a sadness, but still I choose to rejoice.
Funny how everything can be great and in an instant life can spin around and take you by suprise.
Love is a powerful force,
Hmm... I started to write this 2 days ago, but didn't know how to say what I feel.
I am so blessed with a beautiful and wonderful life, I am in a very good place, my marriage is wonderful, my kids are fantastic, my buisness is going well, I feel close to God. In the midst of all these blessings it only takes one thing to make the heart sad.
The point of my blog is to give thanks even when all is not wonderful.
Without specific details because of privacy all I can say is this....
You can love someone before you even met them, I never realized it untill recent years, you have ideas , know about the person, seen pictures, your mind creates fantasies. And it builds anticipation and excitement and nervousness all at the same time.
Then all to soon they are gone, distant visits, and occasional letters, life seems so busy you all but drift away, then after a long awaited arrival many hugs and tears, then the rebuilding.
Love, hurt, releif, figuring out where and how you belong. pulling close, pushing away.
Forgiveness
Then just like that dread, not knowing, anxiety, fear of the loss of time, fear of not seeing, fear of not being able to give comfort because my own heart is struggeling with questions that can not be answered any time soon.
The waiting...
The anguish...
The memories...
The hope of more time, more memories
Prayers
The only thing I have left, the greatest most powerful force but it feels so littel. Crying out to God to rescue, reveal,save. because He can.
Desperate tear stained prayers, and it feels not enough.
So today I am thankful for endurance. I am thankful that when my heart feels it's not enough that I still know the trunderstand it I will trust in my Father.
the verses that follow are...
O Lord, save us;
My heart is filled with a sadness, but still I choose to rejoice.
Funny how everything can be great and in an instant life can spin around and take you by suprise.
Love is a powerful force,
Hmm... I started to write this 2 days ago, but didn't know how to say what I feel.
I am so blessed with a beautiful and wonderful life, I am in a very good place, my marriage is wonderful, my kids are fantastic, my buisness is going well, I feel close to God. In the midst of all these blessings it only takes one thing to make the heart sad.
The point of my blog is to give thanks even when all is not wonderful.
Without specific details because of privacy all I can say is this....
You can love someone before you even met them, I never realized it untill recent years, you have ideas , know about the person, seen pictures, your mind creates fantasies. And it builds anticipation and excitement and nervousness all at the same time.
Then all to soon they are gone, distant visits, and occasional letters, life seems so busy you all but drift away, then after a long awaited arrival many hugs and tears, then the rebuilding.
Love, hurt, releif, figuring out where and how you belong. pulling close, pushing away.
Forgiveness
Then just like that dread, not knowing, anxiety, fear of the loss of time, fear of not seeing, fear of not being able to give comfort because my own heart is struggeling with questions that can not be answered any time soon.
The waiting...
The anguish...
The memories...
The hope of more time, more memories
Prayers
The only thing I have left, the greatest most powerful force but it feels so littel. Crying out to God to rescue, reveal,save. because He can.
Desperate tear stained prayers, and it feels not enough.
So today I am thankful for endurance. I am thankful that when my heart feels it's not enough that I still know the trunderstand it I will trust in my Father.
the verses that follow are...
O Lord, save us;
O Lord, grant us success.
26Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
From the house of the Lord we bless you.a
27The Lord is God,
and he has made his light shine upon us.
I know He can save ... but I want to feel it, see it.
Previous verses
In my anguish I cried to the Lord,
I know He can save ... but I want to feel it, see it.
Previous verses
In my anguish I cried to the Lord,
and he answered by setting me free.
6The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
7The Lord is with me; he is my helper.
I will look in triumph on my enemies
Yes in anguish I have cried out to the Lord and am waiting for Him to answer, it's all I can do...
Monday, January 9, 2012
starting over day 1
My idea seemed simple. Post everyday for 6 months a reason to rejoice and be glad for that day, no matter the circumstances in life. Easy idea, but the time was the hardest, so I declare a do over!!!
This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
Making time for the things in life that matter most, I want to leave a written legacy of my life, the good and the tough times and the overcoming, for my grandchildren and great grandchildren to come. It's always intriging to discover lost diaries of dead people and see what they really felt, I may never be a a famous world known person, but I want my descendants to know who I was. Where they came from.
So today I'm thankful for so much. I just got married, moved into a new home, starting a new salon/art studio, most importantly I have beautiful daughters whom I love and adore and they love me!
My life seems like an amazing adventure right now and I'm so excited to see all the twists and turns on this path!
Thank you for reading and following along with my blog and my Altered Ego blog as well!!
Excited to hear of the blessings in your life as well, become a foloower and in the comment section I'd love to hear of all you are thankfull for as well!
This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
Making time for the things in life that matter most, I want to leave a written legacy of my life, the good and the tough times and the overcoming, for my grandchildren and great grandchildren to come. It's always intriging to discover lost diaries of dead people and see what they really felt, I may never be a a famous world known person, but I want my descendants to know who I was. Where they came from.
So today I'm thankful for so much. I just got married, moved into a new home, starting a new salon/art studio, most importantly I have beautiful daughters whom I love and adore and they love me!
My life seems like an amazing adventure right now and I'm so excited to see all the twists and turns on this path!
Thank you for reading and following along with my blog and my Altered Ego blog as well!!
Excited to hear of the blessings in your life as well, become a foloower and in the comment section I'd love to hear of all you are thankfull for as well!
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