Excitement over New

Have you ever noticed how we get excited over things that are new?  A new car, a new job.  A new baby in the family or in our case...13 puppies!  A new relationship, a new friend, a new marriage.  We love things that are new.  Here we are on the brink of a New Year!!  2011!  Newness always seems to inspire the best in us.  New hopes, new dreams, new wishes!!
I have tons of things that I intend on writing down this new day for this new year to keep me inspired.  See, that's the thing about newness, nothing stays new forever.  Everything in your life will become old if it is there for too long.  I think that is why I am one who loves change so much.  Change offers the ability to keep things new always.  I need things to be new.  I think we all need things to be new.  New water brings life, stagnant water makes disease.
Sometimes change is super scary for people.  So why do all people seem to be drawn to newness when it really propels some sense of change?  I think because without change life seems to end.  When we become believers in Christ the Bible says He has made all things new.  We are told that we have been REborn, so we are new again.  A sinner desperately needs this newness to know that all things are possible with Christ and that "old things have passed away and all things have become new" so that we can let go and move forward.  I think that is why we are drawn to the New Year, old things have gone and the new is here.  The New Year gives a sense of freshness and an opportunity to start over.
So let's change together and look forward to new!
I'm excited about THE NEW YEAR! 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Marriage...blessing or curse?

Marriage has got to be one of the most complex forces on this planet.  Marriage takes us through a roller coaster of emotions that I don't think people even know they possess until they are in the midst of it all!  Heights of pure unadulterated joy and happiness to pits of utter despair and devastation encompass our marital emotions.  A journey that I think all should take and press through.  When you are in the pits the want to give up is as strong a force as a rocket blasting off into space.  The heights make us rejoice and feel pleasure in ways that humbles us to their power. 
I have taken this ride more times than I can count.  I am divorced from a man, who I was totally in love with and devoted to, based on his uncontrolled rage.  I am currently married to a man who is a refining fire for me, that I love, but am hesitant to trust.  I have shared journeys with many many women who have cried and laughed along with me and I with them through their journey.  I do not long for Ben, thank God, He delivered me from the ties that bound us.  Those ties were not of Him.  I enjoy that we are able to be friends.  Jay and I have stuck out times when both of us would have rather walked, I appreciate my husband's commitment and dedication to his family.  Jay has always kept me on my feet and that is exactly what I need. Being a Sagittarius, I need someone who doesn't bore the fire out of me! :)

I heard a statement the other day that "love is the strongest force on earth, and the most fragile."  What truth!!  Our divorce rate in America speaks to this truth.  We think if we are unhappy that someone else will make us happy, forgetting that joy comes from within us.  I think our love, if we are Christians, should separate us from the rest and even if we feel that our marriage is a curse, we persevere.  Love IS fragile when it's not founded on God. Since God is Love then when He resides in us, we are able to accomplish and overcome the impossible.  The pits of marriage can seem impossible!!  I already said, I have sat in more than one of those ugly pits. So be encouraged that even when your love seems fragile and the pit carries the force of a rocket to propel you out and away, it is just part of the journey to reach the next heights that humble you to pure pleasure!

So where do you stand on marriage?

My think tank

I have always written; as far back as I can remember I have had a love affair with pen and paper.  I can get lost, as a matter of fact, in any office supply store that one could find themselves in.  I love written word, thought processes, complexities of language (even if I am not always proper), and the way words convey what is going on inside of us. It doesn't really matter how pretty or ugly we are inside, words seep out of us.  The ability to speak is part of our proof that we are made in the image of God.  In Genesis, He spoke everything into being.  We have power in our words, the power of life and death the Bible says.

So, my think tank is my insides pouring out onto this relatively new medium for me called the internet.  The good, bad, ugly, funny and everything in between.  If you really want to get to know me, then spend time with me.  If you really want to get to know my thoughts, read this.  Some may agree, some may be angered, but I would love for you to share with me on this journey of my mind.

I have written a book called "A Dose of Reality."  I will be getting into more and more of what the book is about during my journey here.  I firmly believe it will radically change women's lives that are miserable and struggling through.  I am really excited about it.  I will also be sharing my publishing journey because it is unchartered territory for me.  Maybe you, too, have some insight to share with me.

Rock on for 2011!!
Looking forward to what's coming!