Can You Stomach This?

I love to eat healthy food...really, I do!!  But, there are some days when I can't believe what I allow myself to eat.  The problem is not quantity, but quality.  Here's what went into my stomach today:
1 small cup of hot chocolate, 1 almond granola bar, about 20 hot & spicy saltine crackers, 32 ounces of diet Sunkist, 1 small bottle of water, 1 turkey sandwich, 1 prune, 3 pieces of Valentine chocolate, a handful of salt & pepper potato chips, a small piece of German chocolate cake, a handful of smoked honey almonds, 1/2 of a cherry pop tart and.....it's not even dinner time yet.  Uh, just recalling this and actually writing it down is making me feel a little queasy~I'm promising myself to do better tomorrow.  Just so you know....last night, I had chicken and a healthy salad for dinner!! (Okay, I did eat about 7 chocolate mint cookies for dessert)  Maybe I'll give up junk food for Lent~

Time Really Does Fly

Friday, February 17, in Nashville, TN, I got together with my sister-in-law and 3 other "girls" that I became friends with a kazillion years ago at Free Will Baptist Bible College.  We ate pizza while reminiscing and catching up with each other...we did that until almost 3:00 a.m.  We sat around Sandy's kitchen table all night, not even getting up to change into our pajamas (much to my chagrin)!!  Then, it was up the next morning and more talking around the table as we drank coffee.  Finally, and only because no one could be heard over the growling empty stomachs, we drove to IHop for brunch.  Well, you guessed it...more talking.  I think it's going to take many more weekends and countless hours to get "talked out"!  Alot happens in 35 years, things change, we've all changed and in some ways, we're  exactly the same.  We took turns passing a college yearbook around and gasping at how young we really were "back then"~but, when it all comes down to it, to the truth, we're still just a bunch of girls trying to follow God's path for our lives.  Next gab-fest... Paducah, Kentucky!!!

Becoming a peace "maker", not "keeper"

God showed me something about myself this week - I will go to great lengths to keep the peace and to create a "fake harmony" instead of putting myself in situations where there might be healthy conflict.  Sometimes, I am more afraid of people not being happy with me or with decisions I make than I am of not being totally truthful and fully obedient to what I know God has called me to do.  Thanks to my  son, Brandon, who walks closely with the Lord, and the article he sent me,  I have had my spiritual toes stepped on!  It's a good thing~

A Particular Sadness

For some reason, I love YouTube.  I can think of a song and/or an artist, type it in, click and listen to my song of choice.  Tonight, I only wanted to listen to sad songs.  I'm kinda funny like that.  Sometimes, I like to cry and feel bad.  One of the songs I listened to was Arms Of An Angel, by Sarah McLachlan...these lyrics, "everywhere you turn, there are vultures and thieves at your back" get me every time.  There are plenty of sad songs out there and tonight, I will indulge.  Tomorrow, I just might play some MJ tunes and dance in my kitchen.  If you could only witness my joy as I bust some moves to The Way You Make Me Feel, Billy Jean and I Want You Back!  But for now....I'm experiencing a particular sadness:  "Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a break that will make it okay.  There's always a reason to feel "not good enough" and it's hard at the end of the day."  Why not listen and cry with me~

A Time To Sleep

This is my first post on my brand new blog.  I just had to write something before I fall asleep and since my eyelids are really droopy, I better hurry.  Through this blog, you will take a journey with me straight down a crooked lane.  You'll never know from one post to another what you might read.  More than likely, it will be lots of little "nothings" that hopefully will add up to something!  Good night, all ye readers of blogs~