Thursday, January 26, 2006
Making Her Decision
She walked in when everyone else walked out She decided to enjoy more and endure less She decided to start living the life she imagined I am sharing my "voice" in yet a different expression. I am just an amateur, and expressing my outlook on life with this more visual media. I discovered a poster with nine sentiments I fell in love with. They expressed what I was striving for. My sharing will attempt to give credit where credit is due. I shared the nine sentiments with a friend who found where...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Discovering Herself
Discovering Herself She went out on a limb, had it break off behind her, and discovered she could fly She discovered that she was the one she had been waiting for I am sharing my "voice" in yet a different expression. I am just an amateur, and expressing my outlook on life with this more visual media. I discovered a poster with nine sentiments I fell in love with. They expressed what I was striving for. My sharing will attempt to give credit where credit is due. I shared the nine sentiments with...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
"Surrounding Herself"
"Surrounding Herself" She ignored people who said it couldn’t be done She had a way of turning obstacles into opportunities I am sharing my "voice" in yet a different expression. I am just an amateur, and expressing my outlook on life with this more visual media. I discovered a poster with nine sentiments I fell in love with. They expressed what I was striving for. My sharing will attempt to give credit where credit is due. I shared the nine sentiments with a friend who found where they came...
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Monday, January 23, 2006
TURNING CAN'TS INTO CANS
She realized she was missing a great deal by being sensible She turned her cant's into cans and her dreams into plans I am sharing my "voice" in yet a different expression. I am just an amateur, and expressing my outlook on life with this more visual media. I discovered a poster with nine sentiments I fell in love with. They expressed what I was striving for. My sharing will attempt to give credit where credit is due. I shared the nine sentiments with a friend who found where they came from on...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
Throwing Out Excuses
Throwing Out Excuses I am sharing my "voice" in yet a different expression. I am just an amateur, and expressing my outlook on life with this more visual media. I discovered a poster with nine sentiments I fell in love with. They expressed what I was striving for. My sharing will attempt to give credit where credit is due. I shared the nine sentiments with a friend who found where they came from on the web! http://www.scoutisaband.com/blog/2005/02/i-remember-who-i-am.html These are extractions...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
How Did YOU Come to Know God?
It was the first time in 25 years that all five brothers and sisters had been in the same place at the same time. There are 19 years difference in the ages of my oldest sister and youngest brother. Her first child was born a month before the youngest brother was born to our mother. In other words, we had always been in such diverse areas of our lives growing up, it took all of us reaching adulthood before we really spoke to each other on the same level. We were spread out from the bobby sox...
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Friday, January 20, 2006
What Comes First, Knowing God or Being Happy?
I was asked a very intriguing question to the blog where I had listed the 5 steps to happiness. Shouldn’t knowing the Lord God be the first step in bringing one happiness, I was asked? I couldn’t disagree, but the more I thought about it, the more I wondered, “What comes first? Being happy or knowing God?” It was becoming a question as baffling as, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” I don’t know HOW God came into my life or when, because I never questioned it. I don’t know why I smile...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Five Simple Rules To Be Happy
My sister sent me this story about a little lady being placed in a nursing home following the death of her husband of 70 years. She was quite unusual in that she went without a fuss and even had a smile on her face and the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old about to receive a new puppy. Before she even saw her room, she exclaimed, "I love it!" The next part really got my attention because it could BE me if I should survive Parkinson's that long. She goes on in the story to explain. It expresses my...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
What Would Love Do Now?
Last night, my husband, Jay, drove me to the home of our friend, Suzan, who was hosting the dinner of the four high school friends who got together, NOT by coincidence. This is a follow-up to yesterday’s blog, No Such Thing As Coincidence. It had been 10 years since we’d seen Nancy. There was that number 10. Nothing out of the ordinary happened last night with the four friends, but it was still to be an eventful evening. As Jay was walking out of the door, Suzan, with whom he had confided when...
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Monday, January 16, 2006
No Such Thing as Coincidence
My high school friend, Carolyn, who lives in California decided to come visit her two daughters in Kansas City for a few days. They live nearby my daughter. We had planned to meet for dinner this evening, this time at my house. This would be our third such meeting the past six months under the visiting mother umbrella. My biggest snafu was this nasty cold which "got me" in spite of my taking two Amantadine a day (an anti-viral drug I take for my Parkinson's which usually keeps me well from...
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
"Miss Me -- But Let Me Go"
“Miss Me – but Let Me Go” A little lady sent me this poem tucked in a sympathy card for my mother last fall. I found it yesterday shortly after I talked to a woman who called to ask me questions about having brain surgery for Parkinson's disease. She asked me a question that I am probably asked most often. “Weren’t you scared?” I can honestly say I was never scared. At the time, the statistics were 1-3% of dying on the table which meant 97% of the patients came through just fine. The odds were...
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
The Signs of Love
The Signs of Love I watched a chick flick today, a romantic comedy. From the beginning, the dialog had to do with following your heart and paying attention to "the signs." I had been thinking about “signs,” because of NYC and a lot of signs Mike saw there that affirmed his love for me. In the movie, the older, wiser great grandmother at one end told a young woman, "You will never know love until you surrender to it." At the other end, a stranger, a priest, told a young man to look for all the...
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Friday, January 13, 2006
The Great I AM
Do you ever tire of the Christmas letters you get, every year, that detail every wonderful accolade that has happened in their family and especially to their kids that year? And those vacations! After several years of this, you know just what you are getting and from whom year after year. I write a yearly letter as well, trying to make my letters anything but a brag sheet. I've had several friends and relatives who tell me that my letter is the only one they will read and that they look forward...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Cancer was a Blessing
Mike often asked, why did we re-meet now, at this time? Why not meet again five years from now or five years ago? Why at this time? Why at all? My answer always was the same -- because I had cancer. It was a time when, unbeknownst to me, he had been in a personal slump. It wasn't until our communications with each other started to take on a more spiritual nature that he began to examine how "lost" he had become. We often hear "God works in mysterious ways." It has always been my heart-felt...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Disease Can Be a Blessing: Part 2 -- Stop and Smell the Roses
This is Part Two of a three-part article on how I view Parkinson’s disease as a blessing. There is a song that has always spoken to me and the way I used to live. “Stop and Smell the Roses” You got to stop and smell the roses You’ve got to count your many blessings every day You’re gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don’t stop and smell the roses along the way. The words in that song spoke to me when I was younger. If you read part one, you know that I was a very busy...
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Monday, January 9, 2006
Disease Can Be a Blessing: Part I -- Stop and Smell the Roses
Stop and Smell the Roses This is Part One of a three-part article on how I view Parkinson’s disease as a blessing. Tonight, I was writing a reply to a blogger who wondered how he could get this idea across to three of the most significant people in his life, each of them suffering from different yet painful, chronic illnesses. I understand his plight. If you find yourself in the same situation, just do your best to remain positive and you might even remark once in a while on some of the...
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Sunday, January 8, 2006
"I Believe I Can Fly"
If I had the faith of a mustard seed, I should be able to fly. RR Kelly, (unbelievable though it may seem) recorded this incredible song. "I believe I could touch the sky." Little James, whose story I've yet to conclude here, believed he would fly and told everyone he knew he would die on Saturday. As Jesus told us what would happen to him, and it did, so that we would believe, little James followed in like. He said what he would do, he did, and why? So that we would believe. They are the great...
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
Spirit vs Life
Love is All There Is
My affair brought about a spiritual awakening in my husband. He knew I was reading these books by Neale Donald Walsch and discussing them with my mike, 1500 miles away. In an effort to keep up, I think, he wanted to read the same books. I warned him to prepare to have his life changed, beyond anything he'd ever experienced. (How sneaky of me.) He is new at this, but he now prays, and applies some of the principles of the books to his life. He prayed so hard that I would chose him and I have. Now...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006
ZING- Part 2
He had always been searching for love and our reunion after 30 years showed him the way back to God. It showed him that he was loved and lovable and that he in turn was able to love. We believe the Creators brought us together again for a specific reason. We had gifts to give each other. We learned what we needed to learn from the other. It was time to move on. Did I write those words about throwing me in the trash and erasing me off his hard drive or were they words from God and Mary (his name...
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ZING! Part One
Have you ever opened your mouth and said just the right thing or sat down at the computer and felt the words pouring out of your fingers? You then say to yourself, “Did I just say that?” "Did I just write that?" I feel it’s the Spirit flowing through me; using me as a mouthpiece. I’ve sometimes had to ask what I said. Sometimes I have to reread what I just wrote. It’s almost as if I go into a temporary trance. That happened to me last night. I was responding to a question posed by one blogger....
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