Tag: family life

Party of Five

My party of five is no longer has three bundles of energy, but rather three individual personalities that still want to hang out with their parents occasionally. I will take what I can get and hopefully get as much time out of them as I can.

Waiting Just A Little While Longer

It is so hard to wait, it means putting your life on hold for an amount of time that eventually can make you feel like you are going to go crazy. In the process of waiting processing happens. Joy seeps in and growth happens.

Life Giving Joy

Life giving joy is really what will keep us going in times that we feel there is no way. Family, friends and faith help to keep us in balance with what the world shoves in our faces. Joy is the strength we need

Threatened

There are so many things that can feel like a threat to us. We allow our thoughts to threaten us and make us feel unworthy. The only attack that can change the threat is joy and love, and deciding to change our thoughts for the good.

Change is a Constant

It’s crazy how change is more of a constant than, well change. Looking at change with “joy lenses” will make whatever is changing better.

Joy Abounding

Joy comes from above. It is so fun to watch in a playful puppy and it is so comforting to know it will be there in the hardest of days. Joy is really abounding.

Being Patient Joyfully

Being Patient is hard enough without adding the joyfully part. This means letting go of what we think life should be like and giving to others what they may not deserve. This means doing it with joy and without judgement and resentment

How Available Are You?

What is important to you? Do you make yourself available to those around you, to the items in your life you deem worthy of your time? The amount of time you are busy doesn’t dictate the right use of your time. Think about that.

A Whole New Year

A whole new world of adventures, of sorrows, of times when your faith will be tested. By embracing what will come you will be tested and growth will come. This growth will bring strength, it will test, but it will be worth it.

Why do I hurt?

Sometimes the pain is worth it, especially when you are getting stronger because of it. A year ago I was a completely different person, I have grown, I have become a better version of myself. There was pain but there was more gain

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