Ideal

AIM for the ideal

Fix my problems, God

Sometimes I find myself reading the bible like a fortune cookie. Making reading the bible about me, not about learning about God. 

What happens when you take a picture!

Click I love you

Click I think you are special 

Click I want to share you

Click I want to remember you

Each time I face my camera towards you
Each time I click the button

Each time I prepare the picture of you

Each time I share it with others

It is all because of how much I value you. You are worth my time, attention, and care.

I love to celebrate you by capturing you on film!

Secret

I don't have an answer. 

There you go. I said it. I am exposed. I don't know everything and I can't figure everything out. I don't have a decision. 

You did WHAT?

Take the emotions out of parenting teens.

Raising Sons

How do I raise my sons to be as great as their father?

Forgiveness

I need to forgive:

Those that lied about me

Those that betrayed me

Those that didn't meet my expectations

Those that didn't reward me equally 

Those that used me

Those that forgot me

Those that judged me

If I forgave all those people then I would walk with a smile, listen with a heart, help with genuineness, pray without ceasing, and sleep very soundly.

The only person in my way of forgiveness is ME. It takes no one else but me. I have to let go of the wounds and let them heal.

The first step I will take to forgive will be to not remind myself of the battles.

I don't have to hold onto the pain. I can let go.

Another

You gave me ANOTHER day. God, you keep waking me each morning and welcoming me to another new day! 

Because of Nancy

I became a runner because a friend asked me to participate on a track team with her.  
You influence others everyday.

Bitterness

Bitterness is like drinking a poison and expecting that the other person will die.

Trusting

Peter learned while walking on water: Don't take your eyes off Jesus.

The Israelite men thought as they saw the Red Sea split, ladies first.
They really had to trust God.

Though we don't walk on water or the bottom of a sea with walls of water surrounding us, we still face circumstances that require us to TRUST God.  Using every ounce we can muster, we trust. We trust that God is in control, knows what is best, will relieve our pain, and give us peace.

Little Girl

I just want her to stay 6 forever. Her face is so small and innocent. Her cheeks are puffy and hair golden. Life is simple. While eating her lunch, she doesn't sit and contemplate, she stares and watches, nothing heavy weighs on her shoulders. She has no concerns. Her walk is light and her smile is quick to shine.

Rock Pile

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." Antoine De Saint-Exupery

How to live

"What this writer and so many other women don't realize is that God has equipped all of us to live more simply, to move toward order, and to live with intentionality." Sally Clarkson

Do you like me?

"I do not have the power to make everyone like me or approve of my values, looks, actions, or performance."  Sally Clarkson

Approval

"How I wish I had learned at an earlier age not to define myself by what other people thought of me." Sally Clarkson

Beauty

"We would never tell a zebra that its stripes should have been polka dots, or a buffalo that it should flit around as delicately as a butterfly. And yet the world tries to fit us into a common mold, which leaves 99.9 percent of us feeling that we fall short compared to the imaginary standard of beauty and womanhood." Sally Clarkson

French Women

"French women are beautiful because they think they are beautiful."

BUSY

"All the chaos consumed me and left me empty."