March 13, 2009 at 3:01 am (BLENDED FAMILY, family and life, life in our world of insanity, marriage)
Tags: economy, Family, God, grace, kids, love, marriage, RELIGION, thoughts, world
Whatever happened to that song??? I remember singing that song when I was a kid and I am not sure that my kids would really know that song. Okay maybe they would. But it is really such a simple message, and so appropriate and true…valid…even today. What the world needs now is love sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of! In this world of economic crisis, family crisis, medical need, and all the other chaos around us, love is the one thing that can truly bring us together and bind us. It may sound trivial and trite, but seriously, if one of us starts, and passes it to someone else, and the giving and passing continues, our world could, potentially, become a different world.
Jesus showed us that when He came down here and gave up his life..out of love for all of us. That’s really all it was. It wasn’t about money, or big business. It was about love and grace. It doesn’t take any money to show grace to someone else. A smile, a wave, opening a door to help with a heavy load…simple things go a long way.
Instead of trying to hurt each other, or out do each other, or try to take from one another, start giving, backing away and giving space if that’s what is needed. Let go of old hurt, forgive, (which I know is unbelievably hard to do) make something ugly beautiful! Do something unexpected for someone who wouldn’t expect it! Embrace Grace!
What the world needs now is Love…..done
This is my sister and my niece and friend singing at a coffee house here in Phoenix.
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January 15, 2009 at 10:59 pm (depression, family and life, life in our world of insanity, marriage)
Tags: business, children, chronic illness, crime, economy, health, Life, RELIGION, theft, thoughts
You know how people talk about feeling violated when their house or car is broken into? Well today, I feel violated. My purse was stolen out of my office today…while we were in the building. I mean, someone walked into my office, and just took it and walked back out again. What a horribly overwhelming feeling of being lost. All my identification, my credit cards, my medications, my camera, cell phone even my car and office keys were in my purse! Now someone else has it and what they will do with it who knows?
So, who do you call first? Do you call the doctor and pharmacy? The bank? Cell company? I couldn’t even call my kids cell phone numbers cuz, guess what…they are all stored on my cell phone. I’m not smart enough to write them down in an address book. Who carries those things anymore? And even if I did it would be gone with my purse! My brain just isn’t smart enough to remember all those numbers anymore. I guess I will have to get an address book for the office and one for the house with all personal cell phones in them….geez!
So, there is an update of my day. OH, gotta run. The police just got here to take a report and then the locksmith will change the locks on the office door. I hope they catch whoever did this!
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December 6, 2008 at 9:33 pm (BLENDED FAMILY, depression, family and life, life in our world of insanity, marriage)
Tags: blogging, economy, health, illness, Life, Lupus, medical, random, thoughts
I have passed over 11,000 hits on this blog…and I wonder why! I am a very average person, with an extremely average life. I write these words on this space, things that are in my heart, on my mind, I ramble and sometimes don’t even make sense…yet people read it. I even noticed that there have been people who have transcribed my blog into other languages…that is amazing to me.
As I wander around different blogs I know I find comfort reading how others are like me. There are so many who are out of jobs, trying to run businesses that, in this economy, they don’t know from one day to the next if they will survive, just like me. And, there are the people with diseases…lupus, cancer, fibromyalgia..all forms of illnesses, that write and share their feelings, their experiences…and it comforts me. I feel like I’m not a lone in this big world even though I don’t know the names or wouldn’t recognize the faces of those people I read about…I feel like I know a part of them.
Maybe that is what is happening here too! I guess if I can help someone else feel less a lone, more comfortable about life, or maybe let them know that it is okay to be totally afraid, and worry every day about what will come, then that’s a good thing. God knows I don’t have the answers to life. But I love to write, and share, and I love to read.
Have a good weekend everyone!
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December 3, 2008 at 8:32 pm (BLENDED FAMILY, family and life, life in our world of insanity, marriage, the life of a lupus survivor)
Tags: chronic illness, economy, government, health, Life, Lupus, medical, politics, rambling, thoughts
So, here I am again, on my way to looking like an Angelina Jolie clone with my lips protruding past the doorway before I enter a room and i have developed yet another wonderful, unknown crazy thing goin on. I am getting these little hard bumps on my face. No, they are not zits, they don’t pop, they are hard and just don’t go away…almost mole like only white. Has anyone else had the pleasure of these companions on your face? If so do you know what they are and how to rid myself of them? Not that I don’t like making new friends and having company around me…but these are not really the type of friends I wanted right now….(just a little lupus humor). I have one by my eye that actually even hurts alittle.
I am in the process of waiting for my new insurance to kick in so a trip to the doctor right now to have these little creatures examined would be a big expense I just can’t afford. So, I will wait until Jan 1, 2009 when I hope that a new dawn begins and everyone will be rich, healthy and happy. Till then, these little gremlins will remain on my face…covered with great amounts of cover up of course, and we will live in harmony together!
Just another day in the life…..
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