Struggling To Find Ourselves

Hey, LOOK!!!!  I’m back again!!!  Can you believe that?  And it’s not even going to have a link in it, either!!!  HOW do ya’ll rate?….*L*

LOTS going on right now.  Have been trying to stay on top of everything.  It’s been…challenging, to say the least…especially the last few days!!!

We got MRI results back on my knee, which I twisted over two weeks ago and went to the doctor about.  According to the nurse that called me yesterday, I didn’t tear anything…it’s just a sprain….*dry look*  I’m not too convinced, for a couple of reasons.  #1:  It’s not getting much better.  After two weeks, you’d think there would be a marked improvement of SOME sort, and there’s not.  #2:  I have wondered before if the local radiologist at our hospital got their degree from a cracker jack box.  Anyway, I guess we’ll see what the next couple of weeks bring, and go from there.  I guess it’s a good thing I haven’t been looking for a job, or have a job outside the home at this point, because my knee probably wouldn’t allow me to work anyway.

I have had two gifts given to me this week that I have never had given to me before.  One of them was a Bible from the church across the street for joining the church.  It was from the ladies of the church.  One of those nice ones with the family tree and marriage records in the front of it….The only thing I find wrong with it is that it is a King James Version, and I don’t generally speak Elizabethan English….*L*  But, I WILL use it, nonetheless.

The other gift was a bottle of perfume….name brand perfume.  Talk about a pleasant surprise!!!  I asked the person who gave it to me how much it cost.  Their comment was “Does it matter?”  I told them that it DID matter, because I was the type that, when I am given something I MIGHT like, I’d like to know how expensive it is, so I will know whether I can afford it or not.  They didn’t tell me the price on it, even with my logic….*LOL*  Of course, one bottle of perfume SHOULD last quite a while, even if I wear some every day, so I guess we’ll cross the bridge of getting more when we get there.  Kind of flattered me to be given perfume…..what’s that saying?  “Flattery will get you everywhere”?  Well, I can’t say it will get you EVERYWHERE with me…..but it IS a nice thought!!!  THANK YOU to the person who gave me the perfume!!!

Well, enough rambling for now, me thinks….have to get out of this chair for a bit and relieve my knee some.  You all take care and have a blessed day!!

That’s about all I have time for right now, folks.  Sorry for the delay in entries….just have ALOT going on right now.  I SHOULD be able to be back sometime later in the week, though it looks like I have alot on my plate for the rest of the week.  They say time flies when you’re having fun…..I can’t say mine is really flying, but at least I’m keeping busy!!!

God Bless….More later maybe….

Life has DEFINITELY been keeping me busy  lately!!!  Too much going on to really go into too much detail about any of it, though.

Have been helping a friend remodel a house, though we are only to the tearing apart stage at the moment.  My son is at his Father’s for most of June and July, so I figured that it would be a nice project to help my friend with AND it would help fill some of my time.  Kind of killing two birds with one stone, type thing.

Twisted my knee yesterday.  So this morning, it’s all swollen up and VERY painful to bend.  I have a feeling I MIGHT have torn the muscle, but won’t know for sure for a couple of days.  Wouldn’t be the first muscle I’ve torn, if I DID tear it…..

Had a nice rain last night!!!  Not an overly large amount…only about an inch or so at my house, but it was nice!!!

Have to attempt to run to town this afternoon to take care of a couple of things.  Would like to go over and help with the house again too, if I can.  We’ll have to see what the day brings, though.

More later….God Bless!!  I LOVE YOU, BUDDY!!!

Yep, it is DEFINITELY Spring….FINALLY!!!  We had about 3 inches of rain last night.  Over the last week or so, the flowers and trees have been sprouting like crazy, and growing about 6 inches a day, it seems.  Our flowers are doing SOOOOO great!!!  We’ve even planted some new ones out back, and a couple in the flowerbed out in front of my house where I had other flowers the last 2 years that have been slowly dying out.

AND we are trying our hand at a couple of new things….experiments to see what happens basically.  So far, so good!!!

God Bless!!!

With the coming of somewhat warmer weather, our busy days continue.  Nothing real major….just things that have been keeping us busy most days. 

We are all looking foward to warmer weather coming and STAYING here before too long.  We are in a weather pattern where it is 65 degrees one day and 30 degrees the next, so it’s kind of taxing everyone’s immune systems, as well as giving everyone in the neighborhood itchy feet, because we all have Spring fever and want to be able to be outside ALL day to enjoy the sun and get some outside stuff done.  But then, the North wind blows again, and cools everything off and drives us all back indoors.  Oh, well, at least we’re in a pretty well insulated house where we don’t feel the cold like we used too!!!  We thank God for that every time it starts getting cold outside again.

Not much else going on here at the moment.  Have LOTS of possible/probable plans for this Spring and Summer!!!  Have some of those plans already in the process of being put together, and we are REALLY looking forward to some of them!!!

Time to go reboot the laundry, I think, so I’m going to get out of here for now.  You all have a good weekend, and God Bless!!!

This is a little something that Dad found awhile back, and brought home because he thought I’d like it!!!  Enjoy!!!

Make a Right onto Believeth Blvd.

Keep straight and go through the Green Light, which is Jesus Christ.

There, you must turn onto the Bridge of Faith, which is over troubled water.

When you get off the bridge, make a Right turn and Keep Straight.

You are on the King’s Highway - Heaven-bound.

Keep going for three miles: One for the Father, One for the Son, and One for the Holy Ghost.

Then exit off onto Grace Blvd.

From there, make a Right turn on Gospel Lane.

Keep Straight and then make another Right on Prayer Road.

As you go on your way, yield not to the traffic on Temptation Avenue.

Also, avoid SIN STREET because it is a DEAD END.

Pass up Envy Drive and Hate Avenue.

Also, pass Hypocrisy Street, Gossiping Lane, and Backbiting Blvd.

However, you have to go down Long-suffering Lane, Persecution Blvd. and Trials & Tribulations Avenue.

But that’s all right, because VICTORY Street is straight ahead!!

Well, folks, I think that’s about all the damage I care to do on here for now.  Sooooooo, in the spirit of all of the books we’ve read lately, we’re going to say

“THE END”

and call it a night.

Have a good weekend, all, and God Bless!!!

My son and I have had some….interesting….discussions here lately.  Some of them have just been about whatever has been going on, others have been about books we’ve been reading, and still others have been about the Bible and religion.

One of our conversations about the Bible here about a month or so ago was about the verse in Matthew that says that you are supposed to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  When my son asked me what that meant, I told him that, normally, the ones that persecute you are your enemies, which basically meant that we are to pray for our enemies.  He thinks about it for just a minute, and then he says “That’s not right!”.  I explained to him that it was a VERY difficult thing to do sometimes, but that’s what Jesus wants us to do…pray for our enemies.  He repeated “That’s not right!”…I kind of chuckled at him and told him that we didn’t have to like it, but that’s what Jesus/God wants us to do here on Earth, and that’s what we should do.  He repeated again that that was not right, and I asked him if he was willing to tell God that that wasn’t right when he got to Heaven.  He didn’t even hesitate before he said “Yeah!!! ‘Cause that’s not right!!!”…*LOL*  I can see my son going up to God in Heaven and saying that they needed to have a discussion because “That’s not right!!!”…*L*

Oh, the joy that children bring into our houses!!!
God Bless!!!

I had a friend ask me several months ago when the last time was that I did something “spontaneous”.  I told her I felt like my life was “spontaneous”.  I rarely have any “set” plans…..I DON’T make too many plans that can’t be changed on the spur of the moment….We just kind of fly by the seat of our pants most days and pray God is in control and makes things turn out alright.  Well, I did something that I’m not sure would be classified “spontaneous” or not yesterday.  It was DEFINITELY something that I hadn’t done in a long time, though….ever actually.  I went to www.kcm.org and loaded up their “BVOV All Word Radio” and listened to service after service yesterday and most of the night last night.  I was feeling kind of…..shall we say….down? yesterday…I wasn’t feeling too hot because of a headache, and I just felt like I needed a word from God.  Can you imagine having the word of God preached to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?  After several hours of services, I was feeling better, at least in some ways!!!  And, I HAVE to say that the services they were running were EXACTLY what I needed to hear!!!  I NEED to see about getting a copy of them, so I can listen to them again!!!  It was VERY uplifting, spiritually, and I thank God for the internet and the ability to be able to do stuff like that!!!

God Bless!!!

…Another…..who knows what we have another of at this point?

Life has been kind of busy around here the last couple of weeks, with Spring Break and BEAUTIFUL weather, and LOTS of things to do outside.  I HAVE to be honest….I haven’t been spending as much time on here, even when my son has been at school during the day as I should have been.  I guess I’ll just have to use some of these rainy days that are coming up to catch up on stuff on here, huh?  Lord KNOWS I have enough that I NEED to do on here to keep me busy for all the rainy days that we get and THEN some!!!

More later…..God Bless!!!