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Saturday, July 16, 2011
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Just wondering
My daughter and I came up to Albuquerque today with my husband, he has to work up here for 3 days. When we got up here and got checked in to the Hotel, I took one of the carts to the back of hotel to get our luggage, as he drove to the back to get parked. Well, right after I came out to meet him, one of the ladies that works at the hotel also came out to clean the glass door. I really cant tell you what we said other than Hi, how's it going, thank you, (she held door open for us) and have a nice day, small talk.... SHE said wow, thank you back to us and said she doesn't hear that often... my first response is "We're from Alabama", and my daughter chimed in, "you know southern hospitality"...
I know being from the south, that is just how we are...well most of us! but it amazes me how something that is as natural to me as the freckles on my face, has been lost on a majority of people, and the only reason I am saying majority, is because if everyone was doing it, then people wouldn't look at me as if I was weird. I once literally had a man, that I was holding the door open for in New York, jump back and walk around me staring at me like I had leprosy or some visible contagious disease. I just smiles and said in the worst southern drawl I could muster up. "You hava nice day sir" ~ Scarlett would be proud... or Blanche Devereaux, lol. (it was that bad LOL)
Well, when I returned the cart to the lobby, the lady saw me, smiled and walked over and said "I'll take that for you" I just smiled back and said "Thank you so much, you have a good night".. Wonder why more people don't take the time to just be nice!
Wonder how many more people, I will scare up here... let you know later.
Y'all have a good night!
I know being from the south, that is just how we are...well most of us! but it amazes me how something that is as natural to me as the freckles on my face, has been lost on a majority of people, and the only reason I am saying majority, is because if everyone was doing it, then people wouldn't look at me as if I was weird. I once literally had a man, that I was holding the door open for in New York, jump back and walk around me staring at me like I had leprosy or some visible contagious disease. I just smiles and said in the worst southern drawl I could muster up. "You hava nice day sir" ~ Scarlett would be proud... or Blanche Devereaux, lol. (it was that bad LOL)
Well, when I returned the cart to the lobby, the lady saw me, smiled and walked over and said "I'll take that for you" I just smiled back and said "Thank you so much, you have a good night".. Wonder why more people don't take the time to just be nice!
Wonder how many more people, I will scare up here... let you know later.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Children
Well, my 18 yr old daughter got married this past week at the courthouse in Alabama. She told me via Facebook, then told my parents and her paternal grandparents. We are not on the best of terms right now.. well, she is mad at me right now and has been for almost a year, (cause I didn't let her do things her way). Anyway, I didn't have time to make plans to drive to Alabama for the wedding.
My point in telling this is, today my cousin and I were outside watching it rain (first good drizzle since I moved here in January) and talking about our children and how they can ignore us and hurt our feelings... I was telling him, everyone keeps telling me I will be a grandmother soon, and while it hurts me because my wish for my daughter was not to make my mistakes.. get married at 20, drop out of college, then after 18yrs of marriage end in divorce and I had nothing to fall back on... I am thinking more of the when she does have children will she allow me to be apart of their lives... and I told him as much as it hurts me right now... I keep thinking of how much my relationship is with her has also been the same as my relationship with my Father... the Heavenly ONE!
How many times have I gone my own way, not forgetting about him but taking him for granted, until the moment I need him. My Daughter may have turn her back on me, but I have to follow the example of my Heavenly Father and be waiting with open arms for the moment when she does come to me. I think of all the human responses, "Well, she hasn't talked to me in a year, why should I help her now?" ~ "You made your bed, now lie in it" (I was told that one in response to my own divorce)
I started praying in April, that if he was not the man God wanted for her that they would break up. Begged God to open her heart and mind.. (side note.. she doesn't want to believe in God). All I can do now is continue to pray, My own life has been in a tailspin, I want more than that for my daughter!
And speaking of my Heavenly Father, I cant believe that we have moved over 1200 miles for no reason. I know he has something in store for us,
I am reminded of a video I saw long time ago. I think of it especially when times get rough. So blessed to know God is carrying me! I notice date that I had shared this video on FB was Nov 3, 09 just after I started this blog and life started goingdownhill a different direction!
We are headed to Albuquerque, for the next 3 days, one advantage of my husbands new job, if they need him in Albuquerque I can go with him. Just got to pay for what I eat :D hehe
Until later,
My point in telling this is, today my cousin and I were outside watching it rain (first good drizzle since I moved here in January) and talking about our children and how they can ignore us and hurt our feelings... I was telling him, everyone keeps telling me I will be a grandmother soon, and while it hurts me because my wish for my daughter was not to make my mistakes.. get married at 20, drop out of college, then after 18yrs of marriage end in divorce and I had nothing to fall back on... I am thinking more of the when she does have children will she allow me to be apart of their lives... and I told him as much as it hurts me right now... I keep thinking of how much my relationship is with her has also been the same as my relationship with my Father... the Heavenly ONE!
How many times have I gone my own way, not forgetting about him but taking him for granted, until the moment I need him. My Daughter may have turn her back on me, but I have to follow the example of my Heavenly Father and be waiting with open arms for the moment when she does come to me. I think of all the human responses, "Well, she hasn't talked to me in a year, why should I help her now?" ~ "You made your bed, now lie in it" (I was told that one in response to my own divorce)
I started praying in April, that if he was not the man God wanted for her that they would break up. Begged God to open her heart and mind.. (side note.. she doesn't want to believe in God). All I can do now is continue to pray, My own life has been in a tailspin, I want more than that for my daughter!
And speaking of my Heavenly Father, I cant believe that we have moved over 1200 miles for no reason. I know he has something in store for us,
"I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for." Jer 29:11 GNBI know it rains on the just and the unjust, but I also know that
"And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God." Zec 13:9 GNBwith these things in mind, I try to remember to give thanks for the blessing, Great and Small. I may be living with my cousin, but I have a roof over my head. Sometimes, small petty things hurt feelings, especially when your in a house with 2 women 1 kitchen LOL... the old saying WWJD ~What would Jesus Do??~ keeps popping in my head and I ask God to help me get thru this time?
I am reminded of a video I saw long time ago. I think of it especially when times get rough. So blessed to know God is carrying me! I notice date that I had shared this video on FB was Nov 3, 09 just after I started this blog and life started going
We are headed to Albuquerque, for the next 3 days, one advantage of my husbands new job, if they need him in Albuquerque I can go with him. Just got to pay for what I eat :D hehe
Until later,
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Pinning
Today's blog is because I have had several days of my head not feeling so good... yucky headaches because I am hoping, I have not yet adjusted to living in New Mexico verses Alabama... but I have spent the time laying in bed reading other blogs, and just exploring the internet dreaming...
Right now we are living with my cousin and his wife, my husband has been official employed for 2 months now, I am still unemployed..I am hoping and praying that within the next year to have our own place ..somewhere I can make my own... Thankfully, Kevin doesn't care about how I decorate. So I have been "dreaming" and "pinning"!
My favorite activity, for the past few weeks has been Pinning on Pinterest Thinking of ways that I can bring the cottage look to the desert,LOL what a challenge!! I find that calling this Blog "A New Journey" has become more literal than I original thought it would be... a total metamorphosis of my life!!
I have always had a fascination with the word Metamorphosis, there was a shop in Nashville, TN called Metamorphosis that if you are into embroidery, smocking, cross-stitch or anything that is thread related...this is the place to go.. I walked in because of the name... and was in heaven... Serendipity is another word that has always fascinated me.. while in school I ran across Serendipity books and fell in love.. Leo the Lop was my favorite...
.. the word Serendipity means the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident .. there is also a great movie called Serendipity
My dear husband has to go to Albuquerque to work for a few days this week and Sarah and I are going with him.. found several great shops in the mall up there, that I want to visit again.. until later
Right now we are living with my cousin and his wife, my husband has been official employed for 2 months now, I am still unemployed..I am hoping and praying that within the next year to have our own place ..somewhere I can make my own... Thankfully, Kevin doesn't care about how I decorate. So I have been "dreaming" and "pinning"!
My favorite activity, for the past few weeks has been Pinning on Pinterest Thinking of ways that I can bring the cottage look to the desert,LOL what a challenge!! I find that calling this Blog "A New Journey" has become more literal than I original thought it would be... a total metamorphosis of my life!!
I have always had a fascination with the word Metamorphosis, there was a shop in Nashville, TN called Metamorphosis that if you are into embroidery, smocking, cross-stitch or anything that is thread related...this is the place to go.. I walked in because of the name... and was in heaven... Serendipity is another word that has always fascinated me.. while in school I ran across Serendipity books and fell in love.. Leo the Lop was my favorite...
My dear husband has to go to Albuquerque to work for a few days this week and Sarah and I are going with him.. found several great shops in the mall up there, that I want to visit again.. until later
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Watch what you pray for!!!
Watch what you pray for.. my last blog was dated Oct 27 09' and was followed by a lot of drama and well I didn't blog anymore.. in that last blog I wrote "I am praying now for what I would call a MAJOR blessing from our Heavenly Father.. A new job opportunity for Kevin and opportunity for us to move out of this area.. actually to another state.. Praying for God to go before us, open doors, find home and place of worship.. WOW.I know when I prayed that prayer he listened because of where I am today.. but my life was turned upside down to get to this point..
I am reminded of lesson taught at a ladies luncheon yrs ago by my sister-in-law (now ex) she went into great detail about the..
The Story of the Potter and the Clay, how during the process of throwing the clay/we are spun around very rapidly and pressed uncomfortably, squeezed with the potters hands, pinched and pulled shaped and formed into what ever the Potter desires...
Isa_64:8 "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand."KJV
Jer 18:6 "Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands. GNB
(this is one of my favorite teacups)
Well, I can say all of those things have happened to me and my family .. looking back for God to answer my prayer it was necessary, I know me well enough that if things would have been easy or simple, I would have resisted change..
I have never been more than 30 minutes away from my parents in Florence, Alabama. At the time I started the blog I was in Greenhill, Al.. in a little house I loved, had a job I loved. ***Note the I's.. my husband was in a job he tolerated, driving 80 miles to work (ONE way).
Since the ~prayer~ that year I was laid off because my oldest daughter had swine flu and she was one very sick girl that winter and then where my husband worked started going down hill because of the closing of so many video stores.. (they manufactured DVD, VHS) his pay was almost down to minimum wage. We were struggling.. the house I loved started falling apart.. Then last August my father-in-law passed away.. we drove out to California for the funeral, and on the way back to Alabama stopped to visit my cousin in Alamogordo, NM..
Well, after more 'pinching, pulling, squeezing' and some turning upside-down from THE Potter, we put all we could of our belongings in storage, thanks to friends we had a roof over our head and place to sleep. Then in November we drove out to Alamogordo,NEW MEXICO for Thanksgiving, officially homeless and jobless. We drove back to AL first of December and then back to NM for Christmas, then back to Alabama and officially in February of this year with tax refund we packed all and moved to New Mexico. Kevin now has a GREAT job,that he loves and for me it is almost to good to be true..(THANK YOU, LORD) we have found a place to worship and other than me physical having some adjusting to do.. Alabama is 570 above sea-level Alamogordo, is 4,350 above sea-level, humid Florence, AL, DRY desert in Alamogordo, NM. I have had more migraines since moving here than ever in Alabama.. I just keep praying that I will adjust quickly.. but GOD's hand has been with us every step of the way.. and I see it now more than ever... So I may just start now what I was going to start back then... Until later... hopefully sooner than later...
I am reminded of lesson taught at a ladies luncheon yrs ago by my sister-in-law (now ex) she went into great detail about the..
The Story of the Potter and the Clay, how during the process of throwing the clay/we are spun around very rapidly and pressed uncomfortably, squeezed with the potters hands, pinched and pulled shaped and formed into what ever the Potter desires...
Isa_64:8 "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand."KJV
Jer 18:6 "Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands. GNB
Well, I can say all of those things have happened to me and my family .. looking back for God to answer my prayer it was necessary, I know me well enough that if things would have been easy or simple, I would have resisted change..
I have never been more than 30 minutes away from my parents in Florence, Alabama. At the time I started the blog I was in Greenhill, Al.. in a little house I loved, had a job I loved. ***Note the I's.. my husband was in a job he tolerated, driving 80 miles to work (ONE way).
Since the ~prayer~ that year I was laid off because my oldest daughter had swine flu and she was one very sick girl that winter and then where my husband worked started going down hill because of the closing of so many video stores.. (they manufactured DVD, VHS) his pay was almost down to minimum wage. We were struggling.. the house I loved started falling apart.. Then last August my father-in-law passed away.. we drove out to California for the funeral, and on the way back to Alabama stopped to visit my cousin in Alamogordo, NM..
Well, after more 'pinching, pulling, squeezing' and some turning upside-down from THE Potter, we put all we could of our belongings in storage, thanks to friends we had a roof over our head and place to sleep. Then in November we drove out to Alamogordo,NEW MEXICO for Thanksgiving, officially homeless and jobless. We drove back to AL first of December and then back to NM for Christmas, then back to Alabama and officially in February of this year with tax refund we packed all and moved to New Mexico. Kevin now has a GREAT job,that he loves and for me it is almost to good to be true..(THANK YOU, LORD) we have found a place to worship and other than me physical having some adjusting to do.. Alabama is 570 above sea-level Alamogordo, is 4,350 above sea-level, humid Florence, AL, DRY desert in Alamogordo, NM. I have had more migraines since moving here than ever in Alabama.. I just keep praying that I will adjust quickly.. but GOD's hand has been with us every step of the way.. and I see it now more than ever... So I may just start now what I was going to start back then... Until later... hopefully sooner than later...
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