Life Changes, Again, and again and again.........

Life..... crazy, contented, full, boring, joyful, sad, sigh filled, laughter filled, the list goes on and on.

New directions are taken, old ones held on too. We change, over and over again. As women it is even more frequent! I know that for me, life can change moment by moment and yet stay the same for long periods of time.

But, one thing in my life NEVER changes. God. I change....boy do I change! I try to be what God wants me to be all the time, failing miserably and having victories on a seemingly daily basis.

And then let's add in all the people and things that surround me that push me into changing even when I don't want to.....I don't believe we can wake and begin a day without pressure from some outside force wanting us to change. I mean, really, how many times can a company "re-make" a product!!! All new! Improved! All in an effort to get ME to change....purchase their product instead of the one that I currently use, ugh!

Environmental changes....it is spring here and green and other beautiful colors are popping out all over the place! OK, this is a change I LOVE!

Family, moving away. To a place I love, to a church I love, to friends I love. It IS a good thing, but again, it changes my life drastically!

Well, a song that speaks to me SOOOOOO LOUDLY is where I choose to Stand today. In the midst of change all over my life, I CHOOSE to STAND.

"I'll stand with arms high and heart wide open,
In awe of the ONE Who gave it all,
I'll stand, my soul, oh Lord, to You, surrendered
All I have is Yours,
All I have is Yours."

God is security, love and peace....even in a crazy, ever changing life....like mine.

SoOoOoOo MuCh To dO!!!!

How many of you have a Spring List of to do's??

I do!!!

I have several projects to get done....and it is not spring cleaning!!! Ewww!
OK, I will do that too. If I have too, and I have too!

I am making a mirror....yes, that is right. I will take pictures as the process goes on and post them here.

I am painting a bench,(which is smaller than this, but the color is marvelous and I am going to be a copy cat for sure!!)














picture frame, possibly the living room and many other things!
I will try to take a few "before" photos for you, as that will make a great accountability agenda for me.

With of all this amazing weather finally moving into our area, I am quite anxious to get things started!!

Let me know about all the cool things that you will be doing this spring!!

Understanding, or The Inability Too.

I know that I have posted "fluffy, feel good" things this past week or two, and it is a good thing to this. Make life joyful. Bring a smile. Love Life!
But in light of what has happened around the world today, I feel I would be off base a bit, if you will, by posting something light hearted today. (well, maybe it would be a welcomed moment of reprieve)

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9


I do not know why God has allowed this tragedy to happen to the people of Japan, and I will not pretend too. All I do know is, that He is greater than all this, and He WILL use it for HIS great glory and the good of men.
Now, that sounds rather odd, that it could in anyway be for the good of men, and my finite mind cannot see or think at this moment of a way that such a huge tragedy can be of any good at all. BUT, this one thing I do know....God loved, loves, always has loved all those who perished today. I do not believe God was trying to "rid the country of Japan of people" God so loves this world and all it's people so much that He gave His Son up to death on the cross that ALL would come to a salvation relationship with Him. He loves His people. period. Does He love all that I do and think? Nope. I sin. You sin. We all sin. God hates sin, but loves people.

Why does tragedy happen? I really don't have the definitive answer for that. I can speculate. Without tragedy, we would probably loose our compassion for others. Without tragedy, we would probably loose site of God. If all was a "walk in the park" all the time, we would rely more fully on ourselves and less on the God of all creation. And yet, I still reel at such extreme happenings as the events of today.

So, what can I do about this situation? I can write about it on my little blog. I can talk about it to my friends and colleagues.
But my best thought is, reach out to the hurting. Pray for them. Love. Pray.

Have a blessed day, and remember to pray for the now homeless, the now morning, the now hurt, the people that God loves so very much.

Sending A Smile

Doesn't this picture just make you smile!!!!









It surly makes me smile!
Have a wonderful Thursday!

Just A Reminder.....

This Saturday Night, March 13th we must set our clocks AHEAD 1 hour....loosing a precious hour of sleep, throwing off the sleeping habits of the 2 and 3 year old in our home, and making for a bit of a grumpy Sunday morning.

BUT, oh the joys of the darkness holding off for an hour more in the evenings!! Oh the joy of warmer days, trees budding, grass greening, flowers sprouting.....joy.



God's great creation springing back to life in this area. God is good, ALL the time.
Have a momentous Wednesday!

Noticing.....

The past few days, as I walk into our bedroom, I have been noticing that there is a great lack of color in there. Don't get me wrong, I am a blessed woman with a beautiful home and a loving family inhabiting it! Our bedroom is quite pretty, but I am noticing it to be a bit monochromatic these days.

Soooooooooooooo, I have decided to add a few "pops" of color. Have not decided on the color as of yet, maybe turquoise, maybe red, orange, purple.....who knows? All I know is that it will be done on the cheap, and with things that I have in home already (well, maybe a yard or two of new material to make some throw pillows)



This picture is an example of "pops" of color being used to uplift this very monochromatic room.
I will not be using a light shade of blue, as we have a bit much of that color already in our home...a lovely color it is, but not to be used in the bed room.

Have a most wonderful weekend, and stand fast for the Lord!

My Mind Is On The Garden

I look out my french doors each day and gaze at the back yard....free of snow and just crying out for some color....flowers, herbs, even a few weeds would be nice right about now! Soon....very soon.
I started my tomato and flower plants yesterday...they are really seeds in wet soil at this point, but in a few short days, I will have the beginnings of 5 different types of tomatoes, 3 types of flowers and 2 different herbs. (other herbs are started straight from the seeds to the outside soil)



I found this picture on a site from Tori James....lovely site it is! It reminded me of the many metal containers and buckets that I painted last year for things like growing herbs, using as napkin, plate, condiment, etc. containers during some of our MANY back yard parties. Mine are all painted in varying shades of blues, greens and creams, as we live on the water and it makes sense to me. Tori has done hers in pinks, but you get the idea of how you can take plain aluminum, tin or galvanized steel containers and turn them into something quite wonderful....and completely useful at the same time!

Have a wonderful time hunting (in the dark corners of your basement or in second hand shops) and painting long forgotten but now useful treasure!!!!