Where does it come from?

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Dear God, Ramblings | 0 comments I’ve always been boggled at how deep and how buried sadness can be. How can a person so strong, so independent, so full of life be this…sad. And in reality sad is not a good word to describe the wave of black that washes over me at times. Because, I’m not sad. I don’t cry. I don’t feel sad in the literal sense. I guess it’s truly depression, but I don’t...
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The Fighter In Me

Posted by on Aug 10, 2010 in Dear God, Ramblings | 0 comments I knew this day was coming and I’ve been resisting it for as long as I could. I’m not a quitter and I hate giving up on the dreams and hope I’ve started to make for myself. For so many years I’ve worked  to fulfill the needs and wants of others. It’s what women do. It’s really what southern women do. But at some point I got mad and decided to do what was good...
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Celebrating sobriety

Posted by on Jan 30, 2010 in Dear God | 0 comments We’re headed to Tyler today to celebrate my brothers 2 year pin at narcotics anonymous. It’s taken a very long time for him to get here and while he’s been sober before and for a longer period of time this is the first time he’s actually doing it on his own and he’s learned to be independent. He suffered through the sadness and pain of my mothers death without...
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Elisha & the Widow’s Oil

Posted by on Nov 17, 2008 in Dear God | 0 comments 2 Kings 4: 1-7 An old woman went to Elisha, the prophet, scared, poor and needing help in caring for her sons. Elisha asked her what she might have to sell so that she could help herself and not be a burden to someone else. She said she didn’t have anything but one jar of oil. So he told her to go get a bunch of empty jars, more than she could count, and bring them to her house, shut...
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Experts say…

Posted by on Nov 5, 2008 in Dear God | 0 comments …after last night’s election, hell has officially frozen over.
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Communication

Posted by on Oct 30, 2008 in Dear God, Ramblings | 0 comments Got this in my morning devotional and it’s been weighing on me: Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. Ephesians 4:29. And this: Proverbs 18:13 (NLT) says, What a shame, what folly, to give advice before listening to the facts! The Bible is always so accurate, and we can learn so...
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