God Doesn’t Need Me to Save the World

God doesn’t need me to save the world.

Really.

God can choose to use others to help someone in need besides me.  Sometimes I forget that.  I see a need and in my overwhelming anxiety to “fix” everybody and everything, I lose track of the fact that I am not always the best one to do […]

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The Road Less Traveled

The Road Not Taken 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though […]

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Purposeful Gratitude

A lot of my blogs the past few months have been around the theme of choosing.  As I reflect back on the reason why, I believe it is because I have finally come to understand that regardless of what is going on in my life, I always have some control.

In Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s […]

By |June 17th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Purposeful Gratitude

I Think I Can

When I thought about how to write that I’m moving forward a little bit at a time, the book The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper came to mind.  I have always loved that story…the plucky little train engine that when faced with a big hill and an uncertainty with respect to success […]

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Trying to Find My Balance

I’m depressed.  I think I would rather be just sad though in truth I am probably more than that.  For those that know me though this is anonymous, don’t worry, I not suicidal…just writing out my feelings…attempting to blog my way out of this emotional state I am in.

I feel a bleak heaviness deep inside […]

By |May 28th, 2017|Current Events|Comments Off on Trying to Find My Balance

Eldest Son, Memorable Police Academy Graduation

Yesterday evening will forever be a memory I will cherish. My eldest son graduated from his police academy last night. As he and his classmates filed into the room packed with family and friends, I couldn’t help tearing up. I watched him walk in, straight and proud, all 6’7″ of him, and all I […]

By |May 18th, 2017|Current Events|Comments Off on Eldest Son, Memorable Police Academy Graduation

Every Choice Has a Consequence

It’s the end of the day and I am sitting against pillows on my bed with my laptop propped on my lap.  I am weary to the core of my being right now.  I have been dreading this day for weeks now and am glad the day’s events are behind me.

My husband and I […]

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I Am the One Thing in Life That I Can Control

Have you ever had a word on the “tip of your tongue” but your brain falls short of retrieving it? When that happens to me, I find that if I just relax and think about something else, the word is likely to come.

I am currently pondering the phrase in the title of this blog, […]

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The Difference between Area of Concern and Influence…and Why Do I Struggle with This?

I woke this morning filled with anxiety…which is a prevalent state for me these days.  I went downstairs to find the crock-pot (which I had carefully set up last night), had finished cooking the beef.  Great…I’m so “on top of things”!  I took off the lid.  Along with the meat, the crock-pot had also […]

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The Parental Fine Line

I wrote this blog a few weeks ago, intending to post it in a couple of days.  Twenty four hours later, my daughter called me hysterically crying and talking about suicide again.  In the blog I had written, I had been thinking about the need to cut off the financial help to my daughter […]

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