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| I am addicted to this site. My housework gets overlooked. My finger are asleep as I surf hour after hour. I tell my kids, "Go play" so that I can read and write more. I can not stay away from my site. But hey, I know I am not the only Writing.com junkie!!! |
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I am reading a great book by Becky Tirabassi. It is called LET PRAYER CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I already pray a great deal and am even on the prayer chain with my church. However, as I have shared with my friends and family at church, I find I do not make time to be with my Lord. I just kind of give him the left over time! I know he wants more from me! I feel him calling me in so many ways. Yes, I have quiet times of reading my Bible and praying but it is just not consistent! Becky, in her book changed her life by making a commitment to pray one hour a day! I think that is awesome! I am thinking of doing something like that but I don't know if an hour is how long I need! Maybe 30 min? I know that the Lord works in my life through prayer! I can not tell you how many times I have had my prayers answered! Sometimes he works in my life without me even realizing he is! Just like today! I woke up and the first thing that popped in my head was that I need to call and get an eye doctor appointment while it is still summer and my schedule allows it! Now I haven't been in a year and a half and it is getting time for me to change my contact prescription. Well then as I amm thinking about this I think, "I need to call but I just don't have time really....but I need to go...maybe I need to call!" Well then I kind of forgot about it> I kid you not, within 3 min. the phone rang and it was the eye doctor's office calling to schedule an appointment! Some may call that just a conincidence! But I know it is answered prayer. I have prayed for the Lord to help me in my time management and organization as well as my health> I know he was helping me out here! Sometimes it is the smaller answers to prayer that really make me a bigger believer than when God answers bigger request! For example. I can not tell you how many times I have lost my keys and looked and looked for them. Only in desparation would I fall to my knees and ask the Lord to help me find my keys. Every time he would lead me right to my keys! It has happened once when I was stranded at school for two hours and twice at home! I told a friend about it one time and she could not find her eyeglasses. I told her to pray! She went home and prayed! Her glasses had been lost for three days! Once she prayed, she walked right over to them (hidden under newspaper) Prayer works but I think having the right relationship with God is the key to answered prayer!!!! |
| I have been on vacation and boy did I miss my journal! We went to the mountains and had a blast! We went with some cousins and it was one of the nicest vacations I have been on! We rented a mountain chalet (NICE!) It was great being near nature and the mountains! I was able to sit and write my feelings and experiences in my writing journal and take a lot of pictures that I will make into a book for my kids to enjoy! I plan on writing some of the entries from vacation into this journal (or into another folder)_ but I am really tired and it will take forever to do! I'll get to it in the next few days! |
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Tonight, we took the kids swimming down the street at a neighbor's house. They are out of town and told us to feel free to use it along with some other neighbors we are close to. Well it was the strangest thing, I was just talking to my friend and it hit me that I was just rambling about nothing! I am a big talker once you get me going! But lately I have tried not be such a talker as it gets on people's nerves! No one has ever told me that but I know when I am around a person that talks too much it tends to get on my nerves. Also, I used to tend to gossip and I don't do that anymore! But if you get the motor going, sometimes you can gossip and not even really mean too. But tonight I wasn't talking about anybody, I was just talking and then I thought, "OK You don't have to tell every thing and every detail that happened!." Why? Because it was just trivial info and nothing even important! I think I tend to talk to feel empty silences sometimes! I have really learned to try to just listen to people and not talk so much! It is easier said (no pun intended) than done though! |
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I am tired tonight! I wrote how to become a Christian in my file tonight! I hope all my on-line friends will read and rate it! I need their input! Good night! |
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I am addicted to this site!!! As an inspiring writer there is so much to do and read! I need to be cleaning my house and going to Walmart to pick up a few items but I can not seem to stay away from this site! We are going on vacation next week to the mountains. There are a million things to do but I think I will get to them later today! I am looking forward to our trip as I have not been up that way in some time! The Blue Ridge Mountains are one of the most beautiful places to be and to experience a closeness with our Creator! I also look forward to playing in those creeks on the rocks with my kids! I always did that as a kid! |
| Today was just an ordinary day with the kids! My parents came and picked up my 3 year old as I was having the carpet cleaned and did not need him underfoot! Later in the morning, My oldest son and I went on out to my parents to spend time with them! I so enjoyed spending the day with them as I don't get to do that as much as I would like! I have wonderful parents who still seem so young even though they are nearing 65 and 70. I also enjoy being "home" as this is where I lived all my life until I married. It is a farm that I was raised on and just being out in the country does wonders for my soul! As you can tell by my journal entries, I have been in such a reflective mode of my life! I have no idea why but it is kind of nice. My 7 year old had never seen pictures of me as a child (and he looks like me as a child) so I went through the old pictures while we were there! I could tell he enjoyed it but I did too. But it was strange seeing pictures of Mama and Daddy so young as it may me realize they are aging now and that makes me somewhat sad! I saw pictures of me very very skinny and thought "Damn, I looked good!" Funny how I didn't know or feel so beautiful then! I was always underweight actually until about 26 and then I started gainning> I am not overly fat but I could lose a few pounds (20 or so) .
I have tried so hard and just can't for some reason! Having a slow thyroid does not help! Anyway, I have always liked myself O.K., but now I am learning to really love myself and I think it as helped me so much! For once I am feeling beautiful on the outside (I haven't always felt that way even when others tell me I look like Jackie Kennedy or Loni Anderson with brown hair). But I feel beautiful on the outside because of the beauty I have found on the inside! That may sound kind of conceited but it is how I am feeling and I am happy! Of course, my wonderful husband helps me feel beautiful as he has been so loving and saying lovey dovey things lately that it is almost like we have a "falling in love all over again" thing going! Not that we ever have been out of love but things can get put on the back burner in the romance dept. when you as busy as we have been lately! Tonight, we went out to eat with the kids and we were flirting a lot just like we used to when we were first married! It is a great feeling to be loved and to love! I know we are so lucky as most others don't have what we do! At least not most of our friends! |
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I am a very busy person! This summer I have had time to slow down and reflect and I know I have got to learn to stop and smell the roses! I am happy but I feel like life is going by so fast! My baby is almost 3. Where is the time going? I know I need to make time for me too. This journal thing is good for me to reflect and relaX! I think I am already hooked even if it is late at night before I get to it! |
| I have been so up lately and I am so glad! I have come to a conclusion that it is the small things in life where true happiness lies! For example, smelling the smell of fresh cut grass, or just reading the Sunday paper without interruptions! Or how about listening to a child's laughter, watching the clouds or the rain1 Yes, those things sound corny in how they can make you so happy, but I think it is just those things we need to find time to enjoy! Only last year, I was going through some kind of mild depression! It was a medical problem causing it but I think I learned to start taking care of my needs then too. I started telling others in my life! I quit being so nice to everybody! I am still easy to get along with, but I have learned to do things for me and my family first! I was so invoved in projects and so many people were calling on me for favors and I never had the nerve to say no, because I felt I needed to be "all to everyone!"! But now I have backed down on my schedule and am enjoying things so much more! I have time for me!!! Well at least a little (being a working mom takes a lot of time) for me! I am so happy to also have time for God in my life! He is blessing me so much! |
| O.K. guys! It is one in the morning and I can not sleep! Now you are talking to a "Need 12 hours of sleep woman". I know it will be rough when my boys come in to my room at 7 and ask "Mommy, what's for breakfast!" But for now I love this time! The whole house is so quiet except for my husband's snoring! This is a time for my mind to be still and think! No noise, just me and my thoughts! That is why I like to journal, as my mind can just go and who knows where it might take me! My mind needs this as it is time to myself! Even though I am happy, I have been a tired happy, if that makes any sense! I feel like I am always running! Running on errands, running to work, running to the daycare, running to clean the house, no time for just me! But this is why I am happy I am a teacher so I have summer off and time to pull myself back into slow gear! And to stay up late like this and just think about nothing in particular! I wish society would slow down! Technology is great but I think it makes us even go at a faster pace than before! I think back to my grandparents who used to sit on the front porch and talk and share with neighbors. They did not have a telephone or T.V. They were working less than 40 hours a week with just Grand-daddy working and Grandma taking care of the home. They shared an evening meal as a family without interruptions such as a beeper going off because Daddy is on call! Where have the good old days gone? I wish we lived in a simpler time ! We have great advancements but we barely get to enjoy them! |
| (This entry was edited by suzydiana on 06-26-01 @ 12:11 am EDT) I sound like an old crow when I write that I have been with my husband for 16 years! That seems like a pretty long time but it really isn't as the time just seems to fly! We met really young! He was 15 and I had just turned 18 (yep, a younger man!) We dated for about six and a half years. We were smart to grow up and finish college before marrying. I used to get mad at him for not popping the question sooner but now I am so glad we waited. We have been married 10- years now and I am just as in love with him as ever! How many people can say that now a days! I know all my friends are going through divorces! I know I am so lucky to have a great marriage! I don't know what the secret ingredient is to our great marriage besides love! But some people can love each other and not stay married so maybe there is a lot more to it! But then again maybe they don't love each other enough! I know I love my husband and he loves me that we respect each other because of that love! He may make me mad but I respect him and forgive him when he makes me mad! That may be a part of it! People just don't forget the little things and then things build up and snowball and pretty soon they are having trouble! Or else they go out and find someone else because their spouse is making them mad! The truth is you have to work at a marriage! Communicate when something is wrong but also when things are great! I told my husband the other day how much he makes me happy! I know that sounds small but the little things make a difference in the big picture! Also keep the romance alive! That is hard to do once the kids come along! Well I get down on my knees often and thank the Lord for the blessings in my life! And I thank him for giving me such a great man and family! I know I am blessed when I look around me and see I am becoming a minority in the longterm relationships!! |
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