Where the BLEEP have I Been???

Not sure where the time has gone, or why i decided to check out this blog. It's been some time as you can see, I haven't posted since my sister passed away. It was such a life changing time for me, so huge that I seemed to fall down 'the rabbit hole' as it were. Life continued as it does but I seemed to be viewing it through some distorted lens. Slowly the passage of time and the life changes that occurred over the last two plus years have lifted me out of that darn hole. Don't get me wrong, the pain of my sister's abscence is still with me but not nearly as raw as it was.

I spent some time checking into some blogs I followed and see that some of you are still here and that some of you stopped posting as well. It would seem that the ebb and flow of life affects us all. I hope and pray that any of you still here reading these words are well, that God continues to bless each and every one of you. I am not sure if I should continue on this blog or perhaps start a new one. So many changes have taken place over the last two years. I guess it will depend on if anyone is still reading so perhaps I'll check back and see if there are any responses over the next week or so. In the meantime, love to you all!

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Author Unknown

There's always a little truth behind every 'just kidding.'


A little knowledge behind every 'I don't know.'

A little emotion behind every 'I don't care.'

A little love behind every 'I hate you!'

A little uneasiness behind every 'I'm okay.'

A little pain behind every 'forget it.'

A little fear behind every 'leave me alone.'

A little hope behind every 'goodbye.'

And a little 'something' behind every 'nothing.'


Author Unknown

But Very Much Appreciated!

Heart to Heart with Holley Devotional

This devotional from 'heart to heart with Holley' stuck a cord with me today so I decided to share it with you...


The Best Kind of Rest


I sit across the table from my husband on a cold morning. Snow spatters the streets outside and coffee steams from my cup.

“I’ve been trying to rest,” I say, “And I don’t think it’s working.”

He looks up at me, “Maybe what your idea of rest isn’t really rest.”

I nod. I’ve been thinking about that too.

When I felt like I needed to start slowing down a few months ago, I took that literally. I spent more time on the couch. I crossed items off my to-do list.

And I felt worse.

You’re a dreamer,” my husband goes on, “You need to be free to chase ideas, move toward the future, try new things. That’s what renews you.”

He’s a wise one, my man.

I realized what I’d been missing more than I realized…

God-sized dreams.

I’m coming to see that when God asked me to rest it was actually more about my heart.

Learning to trust instead of strive.

Learning to enjoy rather than push so hard.

Learning to focus on the moment instead of results.

I think of the verse God put on my heart when all this began…

“Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.” Song of Solomon 2:10-13

Rest is an intimate invitation—

not to step away from life but to embrace the Giver of it.

Words to Live By

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.


~William Penn

Don't Worry...

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry.
If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Tenzin Gyatso

14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

Great news if you feel like you need to do it all this week...

I'm thinking of you today,

wondering about a new week,
asking, "How am I going to do it all?"
Here's the great news:

Through Christ.

I can do everything through Him who gives me strengthen me. Philippians 4:13

And here's the secret...

Just offer what you have.

I've been thinking of this, how I fear what I have falls short.

But then God whispers, reminds me, that He can redeem anything.

So as long as we do something, as long as we have the courage to move forward, then He can use whatever the outcome may be for His purposes.

(Oh, and resting, waiting, praying are most certainly doing something too.)

The greatest risk is doing nothing at all.

I heard someone say recently, "The world isn't looking for perfect people--it's looking for people who just haven't quit."

Your to-do list for the week?

Don't quit.

Just keep going.

God will do the rest.

Promise.


As a new week begins I thought I would share this daily devotional from 'Heart to Heart with Holley'.

holley@holleygerth.com