Journeys of one mom

How many times a day do you catch your mind wondering off? Do you replay scenarios in your head? Do you dwell on the "what ifs" of life?  Do you ask yourself random questions about random knowledge? Or, do you maybe dwell on the things in your life that aren't positive? Physical or emotional pain? Changes in your health and wishing you could be the person you once were?  That last one is my BIGGEST hang up.  I miss ME... But the truth is... I am still me... just with different challenges every day.  But it's hard to get that from my HEAD to my HEART.... Apparently it's a really LONG travel.  Today, this was all heavy on my heart again as I sat listening to my kids talk and as I sat pondering my own "stuff".  Sometimes we just get stuck.  Stuck in our thoughts and our ways.  Our thoughts go round and round and most the time... when I'm stuck in those thoughts, they are thoughts that will bring me down and bring me down QUICKLY... So, I was praying t

Some times around here, we get a little crazy!  When I say crazy... I mean all forms are welcome at the door!  Just check in as you enter so we know what crazy we have today!  Today's crazy.... sci-fi gone Jesus!  I honestly come to you bringing the reality that life gets hard around here.  Emotions can dive quick. We have a lot of good days and we have a lot of GREAT days, but in the midst of every one of those days are pockets of time that creep up with deep emotion that are so very hard to swallow.  We have been faced with a lot of those lately.  We have the dreaded realities that no one wants to talk about.  The realities that hang there with gloom.  The realities we all like to shove to the back burner and never speak of.  BUT... they are there.... and though we'd like to say they aren't, they are ever present on our minds.  One of the many questions we get asked.... is there a cure? Will you get better?  Will they grow out of this? The answer? No.... across the bo

I was sitting down this morning to read my Bible and I came across the verse in Phillipians 4:13 that says, "I can do everything through him who gives me strength." You know, I have used this scripture many many times when I am struggling to get through something.  It's an awesome reminder that God is there... that God will help... That Christ is our strength.... But today it sunk in a little deeper as I backed up and looked further at the passage.  When Paul wrote this, he was addressing the Phillipians.  He was saying to them at this very point that he had learned to be content.  He had learned to live within the means of whatever he had at that time.  He said to them, "I am not saying this because I am in need for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plen