Journeys of one mom

I seriously pondered for quite awhile about what to do for hand crafted.  I just wasn't sure.  But coming home from an appointment, we saw this beautiful sky line and it hit me... This is hand crafted!  My God!  My Papa!  He made this with his own hand!!     Genesis 1:6-8  Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. God called the space “sky .” And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.   To be honest, this picture doesn't do this sky line any justice.  It was amazing.  I look around me every day, when I think of hand crafted, I could post so many pictures!  God made my children! God made my husband! God made everything surrounding me.  The night sounds of crickets chirping, frogs cr...

    The word that comes to my mind when I see this photo is "Expectation".  How many times in life, do we stand waiting.... it might feel like we are waiting on the ball to drop... it might feel like we are excited and we can't wait to put our hands on what is coming... Whatever the case... whether it's a good expectation or a negative one.... we have this....     1 Peter 1:3      All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation   It would be so very easy in life (Believe me, I know) to stand anxious waiting on the next moment.  We live quite a life on our medical journey.  We have had horrendous bumps over time with scary moments of health, people being cruel who don't understand, and even just days that the weight of everything feels like too much... WAY TOO much!...

I had some friends challenge me not long ago about doing art journaling.  I LOVE to draw, but honestly, any more, it is an energy issue for me.  My hands fatigue quickly.  So, I've been trying to think what I could do.  Abby (my daughter) is doing a photo challenge right now for 31 days and she mentioned I could do it with her.  I accepted the challenge.  It's been fun trying to help her learn and figure things out.  So, here's what I'm going to do... I'm taking on the 31 day challenge but I'm going to tie it into my journaling/quiet time each day.  Being a medical mama, my life is busy and I can promise you, I won't be doing 31 consecutive days, however, I will do my 31 days and see what we come up with!  So, day one:  Up close        Looking at this photo, I see broken.  Everything else around the broken area is a blur.  For me, I think this has been life all too often here lately.  ...