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See A Victory – Music Monday

I know many of you may be feeling really out of sorts right now.  I’ve personally been a mix of so many emotions that it’s really hard for me to even begin to put things into words right now.  I’m sure you have had many of the same feelings as me.

Worry over what this virus could cause to happen with your finances and health of not only yourself but also that of your family and friends, is very…

Have you noticed that store-bought travel-sized deodorants aren’t actually very travel-sized?  They also don’t have much product in the container and they take up way too much space in the TSA approved 3-quart bag.   Another problem with travel-sized deodorant is the amount of deodorant inside will not even last a full week… I found that one out the hard way when I ran out of deodorant on my very…

Music Monday two for One!

Every day I wake up with a song stuck in my head… Today I woke with 2!

I hope you enjoy them both as much as I do – Happy Music Monday!

Have a great week!

T

Your Most Important Message of the Day

You’ve checked your e-mail, your Instagram, and your Facebook, but have you checked your  Bible today?

If you haven’t you really should because your most important message of the day is most likely waiting there for you  🙂

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New Blog Post - Neighborly Love #CompassionBloggers #bgbg2

When I was a kid every evening after dinner everyone in our neighborhood would come outside to the front of their homes. Most of the adults would be hanging out on their porches visiting with one another and us kids would be riding our bikes or playing games like wiffle ball or tag in the middle of the street.  Everyone seemed to know and like each.

Nowadays, people seem to be a lot busier and…

New Blog Post - Never Ending Winter #CompassionBlogger

This Winter season has been extra long for me this year.  As many of you know I had a weird illness since September that caused me to be dizzy and to have to stay home and not able to do much of anything. On top of the illness our winter in Missouri, this year was brutally cold with lots of snow, ice, and long dreary gray days.  Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was beginning to think I may…

Taking the Leap - New Blog Post on A Story By Me #bgbg2

I have 3 grandsons. The two older boys are close in age, 7 and 8, and the youngest is 3.  Whatever the two oldest boys are doing the little one is not far behind trying to keep up.

A few weeks ago, as they were leaving my house, my daughter opened the door for them to go to the car the 2 older boys sprang out of the door like they had lightning bolts on their feet. For one split second, the…

New blog post - I Can't Stand to Look at Christmas Trees - Don't let the title fool you, I love Christmas #Jesusthereasonfortheseason #lightoftheworld #BGBG2

I can’t stand to look at Christmas trees this year.

I love Christmas with all its twinkling lights, and the tree in my house has always been one of my favorite Christmas decorations. But this year because of my vestibular migraines the beauty of the lights within my Christmas tree’s branches feel like poison to my brain. All it takes is about 10 minutes of looking at or even toward a lit…

My Plans Aren't Your Plans But Are Your Plans Mine? #bgbg2

In order to stick with my plan of focusing more on God, I knew something in my busy life had to go. One thing I knew for sure I needed to address was the fact that I had two jobs, Travel Agent and Secretary at my church.  Both were part-time and I liked both jobs but also knew that keeping up with both of them was becoming harder and harder to do. I really loved the travel job, plus it allows me…

Amazon Smile for Smiles - #CompassionBloggers #AmazonSmile

Help bring more smiles to these Kiddo’s faces by shopping with AmazonSmile this Christmas.

Did you know you can shop and Amazon and at the same time help children in need?

It’s so easy!

All you have to do is add the word ‘smile.’ in front of the normal Amazon web address, (smile.amazon.com), choose Compassion International as your charity, do your normal Christmas shopping, and then when you are…

Check out the latest blog post - I am Chosen and So ARE You #Bgbg2

  What does it feel like to not be chosen? Or how about being chosen last?

How about picking teams in gym class when you were a child in school?

Were you the person who was chosen first? Or were you always chosen last?

When I was a child my family wasn’t much into sports. We didn’t play sports or watch them on TV and we didn’t go to football or baseball games either. I also didn’t have an…

You never know what you’re gonna get as far as the weather is concerned in Missouri.

The unusually hot weather we had most of September and October led me to believe that Fall was never actually going to happen this year.  But then at the end of October, the tree leaves had finally started to turn which is really late in the season for us.

        We then had about  2 weeks of cooler weather and…

The Sound of Your Voice

There’s something about the morning that makes me feel at peace. The promise of a do-over, a fresh start, an opportunity to learn to breathe again. The dawning of a new day says peace to me. Thank you, Lord, for the soothing softness that comes with the morning, A soft whisper as the first ray of light slips up over the edge of the dark. It’s your voice.

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When the Struggle is Real Keep Going Even if You Have to Do it With Your Eyes Closed - A Story By Me Blog Post

I leaned down to pick up what I thought was trash off on the floor.

“Even when we are struggling God can still use us” were the words written on the paper.

Struggling

Lately that’s all I seem to be doing.

I can’t look at the screen as I type this, or it will send me into a swirling mess. Like I’m stuck on a merry-go-round. I also now have a Heavy head, with brain fog, and a lot of anxiety.

Somet…

Happy Birthday to Me - New blog post #CompassionBloggers, #CompassionInternational #Childsponsorship

We have a running joke in our house when it comes to birthdays.

Instead of just one day for your birthday, you instead get a whole week, which by the end of the month has actually become a whole birthday month.

During birthday month the person with the birthday usually to tries their best to get the other people in our family to buy them gifts or to do things with them that we normally wouldn’t…

New Blog Post, Vertigo, Panic, and Feelings of Insanity

Let me start by saying  – “My mind can be a scary place sometimes.”

I’m not sure why but over the past few weeks I’ve been hit with sudden bouts of dizziness. The first time it hit I was at work. One minute I was typing away at my desk and the next I was holding on for dear life as the whole room seemed to spin out of control.  The swirling passed after a few minutes but since that day it keeps…