Tapestry

This is day four of the November Challenge and I have been getting some cool e-mails and comments from you.  I think we all have so much to be thankful for that we would take pages and pages fo paper to fill.  Thank goodness we have computers.

Today I am grateful for my husband Robert. Being in love with him has brought me incredible joy.  Last night, Andrea got a chance to go with Hank to a high school football game and Rob and I had a "date" at Joe's Crab Shack.  What a cool place it is.  We've been there before, but it was so nice to go on our own without the little miss. 

As we got out of the car, we hugged for a moment and I snuggled my face down into the delicious smell of his neck and face.  Oh, how that sends me!  You'd think I was a teenager still when I smell his aroma.  I guess I'm silly, but I can't get enough of that.  When we were courting - and yes, because of my position as a widowed missionary, courting is the word - I used to snag a shirt of his or his jacket and take it home with me.  I would hold it to my face and close my eyes and drink in that fragrance.  It's distinctive.  Probably pheromones, but it gets me every time.  I am grateful to God for the love he has given us and the special place we have in each other's lives.  We aren't teens and won't be starting a family, but romance doesn't die because you are older and more "ample" than you were as a youth.  Romance is more important now than ever.  And by romance, I don't mean sex.  After all, ther are 24 hours in a day.  There was a flame of romance lit for us nearly 5 years ago and rather than weaken it has grown brighter and warmer.  It glows in us.  We make fools of ourselves and embarrass our daughter.  We just don't care. 

Like a well-woven tapestry, Rob and I are wound together in a fabric that is stronger than if we were apart.  And into that fabric, He has knit the child of our later years.  This is what the marriage contract was meant to be.  One man, one woman, one God and children if it's His will. 

Thank you, Lord for knitting our souls together with You.

Be blessed today my friends,

A Special Invitation

Hot off the presses!  There is an invitation for all to attend a special "chat" event.  Read all about it here.  Be prepared:  I am going in RED!!!

 

                       

I've GOT to do Weekend Assignment #84

John has come up with a doozy of a weekend assignment this time.  I don't always participate, but I just cannot resist this one.  We are supposed to write down what we think is happening in the picture and then leave a link in his journal.  So without further ado:

"Now, John, I told you fooling around with nature would be a bad idea!  Look what you've gone and done.  You HAD to go try out the Roger Rabbit thing, didn't you.  NOW what are you going to do with it?  Well, I'm certainly not going to call it a him - no way in hades!  Don't try to pawn the thing off on me.  I don't want it in the house.  And tell me what Krissy said about it?  I'll bet she's really P.O.'d now.  And aren't you worried having it around your daughter?  Why couldn't you leave well enough alone?"  Love, Mom

Extra credit - Do you want to see more of this type of weekend assignment.  Yes, sure, anything, son!

Bird is the Word

                               

It's almost afternoon here on the west coast and I am just getting a chance to sit down to my journal thanks to all of you who responded yesterday to the November Challenge.  You can go there to read about it.  It will be going on right through November 23, 2005  at 6 pm my time.  I think this will be a lot of fun - as much as possible I am going to try to make your grateful lists very readable when I e-mail them back to you.

We had an interesting thing happen yesterday.  There are now more reasons to call our home the bird house.  Our friend Hank found an injured pigeon in the middle of the road and told Robert that I should come and take a look at it.  He said he'd tell me and then Hank wondered aloud if the badly broken leg should be cut off.  Rob told him not do do anything to the poor bird!  when I got home we went to see the bird and Hank had taped the leg.  I cradled him to my chest and took him home with me.  We set up a temporary cage for him and let him be.  This morning he looks very good, although we are going to have to have a vet look at the leg to see if needs more than we have done for him.  Their little bones are hollow and just not as strong as ours.  Now all we have to do is come up with a name for him or her.  We are going have to start hanging the cages from the ceiling pretty soon.

Well, guys, I found not a red dress, but a sparkly red sweater to wear for the announcement of the VIVI's.  I'll have to post a picture when I found out how and when the announcements will be made.  I have had more fun reading journals and goofing around about the voting for the VIVI's than I would ever have imagined.  It was a great privilege to be part of those nominated.  Win or lose, AOL-J is a winner in my book and those who write here are among the most talented of all bloggers.

In the spirit of my November Challenge, I am grateful to day for J-Land!  In the little over a year since I started this journal, I have become involved with a wonderful group of people.  I have met people I now consider my very close friends though we have never met in person.  Can't do that too many places without getting in trouble.

Be blessed today,

                                  

 

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

                              

I've been thinking about this today and thought it might make a great challenge for my J-land friends.  I'm going to make at least one grateful or thankful statement in my journal every day.  Then on Thanksgiving, I'm going to read that list of thankful things to my family and post them on the frig for the days when I'm not feeling so grateful.

Here's the challenge:  Are your willing to do this with me?  Will you send me at least one thing you are grateful for every day?  If you send them, I will write them up for you and send them to you on the 23rd/24th in an e-mail so you can tell your family about your gratitude.  This means we'd all have at least 21 things to show our gratitude on the day that America gives thanks. 

How about it?  Are you game?  I know I've already told a couple of things today, but here's another:  I am so thankful for answered prayer.  I prayed for something specific for another and I heard that the prayer was answered!  Woo-Hoo.  The thanks go to God.

Be blessed today, my friends,  I'm waiting to hear from you.

(gonna get a red dress!)

Happy Tuesday

                          

What a beautiful morning!  The sun is shining brightly and we are all up and about.  The pain in my neck (no, not my family) is diminished greatly and I feel almost normal again.  I am grateful to God for a good night's sleep, pleasant dreams and the wonderful life I have today.

Last night, there were police cars across the street at a neighbor's house.  We were surprised and found ourselves straining to hear what was going on.  We called Hank because he is a friend of that lady, but he wasn't home.  So we watched.  I got bored and went back to my room to 'puter some more . . .Rob put his shoes on to go boldly into the night.  Turns out some cows had invaded!  Six of them.  I wish I'd gotten pictures.  This is an industrial area, not farming.  They are still there this morning.  The owner is coming to pick them up.

Yesterday was also my first "dark" day at work.  I don't leave until 6:00 in the evening and now that daylight savings time has started, the place is so dark when I get ready to go.  We have to do a last check of the storage yard before leaving and put the cart away.  It's spooky going out there.  The cart has no headlights and the vapor lights just don't seem bright enough.  We have to make sure no one is locked inside.  I knew this would happen - but it seems eerie leaving work when it is dark. I am so thankful that I have this job.  I never thought I would work again.  They know my limitations with the fibro and like me anyway.  I just think it's wonderful. 

Here are the other things I am grateful for today:  All our bills are paid current, even the rent.  We have money left over!  We are RICH!  Well, not with money . . .we are a praying family and we have such great love.  Now how much richer can you get?

Be blessed in the Lord today,

Happy November

Happy November, everyone!  I sure am glad Halloween is over.  We don't get kids by here anyway because we live in an industrial area, but the night is not my favorite.  I'm a little disappointed because at the Harvest Festival at my church, a few of the adults wore scary costumes.  I mean, wasn't the whole deal that we put off the evil and put on Jesus?  I love my church, but we won't participate in that activity again.  I'm saddened that some of them think they need scary things to attract people to the Lord.

November, however, is the month for Thanksgiving.  We have time to think about the reasons we have to give thanks and a special day set aside to be grateful.  Of course, I think we should find something to be grateful for every day, it just makes the day look brighter.  I'm going to try not to rush through November to get ready for Christmas.  Christmas will come anyway and I just want to enjoy the thankful time.

Today I am thankful that my back and neck are just a little bit better, thanks to the wonderful world of medicine.  I slept okay and feel like I can go to work and be somewhat productive.  I'm still not 100%, but then I probably wasn't that when I started out.  I am thankful that we have made time in our busy day for prayer today.  It brought the focus back from disappointment and anger to the joy of the Lord.  that's what it's all about for me. 

I'm off now to start another day.  Be blessed, my friends!