Today...

So,today I started out my day with my usual plan...a list that consisted of way to many things for any one person to accomplish and me on a mission to accomplish them...but...then I remembered something I read in part of my quiet time yesterday. To let interuptions (things that get into your way/path and change your day) be blessings. So I set out with the attitude of "I will start on this thing and move on barring no interuptions...etc and if something comes up...I'll just roll with it." So, what do ya know, I get part way through my first project and I get a text asking if I can come sit with my Father-in-love. Of course I say yes. =) And so goes my day...I finish said project...I had enough time and then...Then...I get to spend the next few hours talking with and hanging out with one of the most precious men in my life! I love my Father-in-love!! He is just amazing! And then you know what else...after I get home and had made dinner, I was cleaning up and writing out my tomorrows list. =) I see todays date. And I remember...my own sweet daddy passed away 9 years ago today. =( But, all I can do is praise God for blessing me today. I got to spend time with my dad after all. =) Thank you Lord for being so thoughtful!!

Savoring Each Moment

"To experience happiness we must train ourselves to live in this moment, to savor it for what it is, not running ahead in anticipation of some future date nor lagging behind in the paralysis of the past. With wholeness and sensitivity we must live in the here and now. "But what if I don't like the here and now?" you ask. "What if my present moment is one of disappointment or impairment or heartache? How then do I savor that moment?" Good questions. And the answers reside in the first and most profound principle for the art of savoring life: Pleasure lies in the heart, not in the happpenstance. Our circimstances may be dreadful and riddled with reasons for discouragement or sorrow, but that doesn't mean those moments are utterly devoid of happiness...Those special savored moments of fun, reflecton, happiness, and pleasure give us a tiny taste of what eternity with Christ will one day be like."
Luci Swindoll
You Bring the Confetti

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!
There is no want to those who fear Him.
The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
but those who seek the Lord shall not
lack any good thing."
Psalm 34:8-10