I’ve been saying it awhile…

but now I’ve changed it up, and I’m trademarking it. Horses and dogs make my heart sing; but guns make it go pitter-patter.™ ©Shelly Haffly 2010
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Message from Purpose Driven Connection this morning…

“At that time we were completely overwhelmed, the burden was more than we could bear, in fact we told ourselves that this was the end. Yet we believe now that we had this experience of coming to the end of our tether that we might learn to trust, not in ourselves, but in God who can raise the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (PH) When you face a dead end, you may start asking,...
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Sometimes being an adult sucks

Remember when summer vacation meant freedom? Freedom from school and all of it’s responsibilities. When running barefoot, shorts, warm summer breezes, and the thrill of driving your first car was all that was on your mind? If kids knew what we knew they wouldn’t wish their lives away. I remember being 13. I wanted to be 16. When I was 16 I wanted to be 18. When I was 18 I wanted to be...
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Suddenly

My brain is full of old country songs. Songs from my youth. I’m walking a path of nostalgia. And it hurts. I haven’t wanted to cry this much in years. Crazy the emotions welling up inside me. I need to take it easy. Get a grip. Look around at the real world. What if – isn’t what is.
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After all this time

Why is it, after all these years I feel like having a cigarette? Why after all these years I’d like to be smoking? I’m such an addict. I swear I sometimes feel like I’m going through withdrawals. And I’m not. But I can’t catch my breath like I’m waitin for that deep inhale. I wish that I had never started so many years ago. I wish I had never started drinking...
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Susie Q

My beloved 17inch MacBookPro is affectionately called Susie Q. She’s been a little under the weather lately, and we have suffered together over the past week because of it. Her hard drive is on the fritz, and while I was hoping it was just a software glitch, it wasn’t. So I was down for a week trying to restore and then rebuild the software on the hard drive. Now I’ll be down...
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