GOOO!

I saw this photo of a stop light on Pinterest this morning and thought... AHHH HA!  That's how I want to live my life.   Yep, not at a stop light but someone on a journey, excited to be going somewhere... MOVING FORWARD 

When I see a GREEN LIGHT it is a happy expression of MOVE! GO! GET! YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY!

When I see a YELLOW LIGHT, it means you either hit the gas and get yourself through, or you slow down and take the moment to wait....bring it to a slow roll and allow yourself a moment to think about what you are going to do

When I see a RED LIGHT, sometimes I'm going to admit I think EERRRR SERIOUSLY! Really... I was going along just fine and RED where did that come from, screeching to a stop and being upset as I sit there~ Typically impatient waiting on the light to turn GREEN. 

Here is the thing about my stop light life ~ I need to realize that just like on the road, it life there are reasons for such lights.  When God has me on GREEN, it is smooth sailing, keeping track of my surroundings, watching what's going on around me.  Focused enjoying the journey and happy about how it is progressing along.

When God gives me the YELLOW, I can do two things.. I can say HA! I know what I am doing and don't need to slow down, I'm on my way.. here I goooo. OR I can slow down & realize that the light is there to be CAUTIOUS.  To slow me down and take note of how the journey is going.  To allow me time to sit and listen... typically its my radio in the car, but in life, it's to God.  What is He trying to tell me.  Is there something to be cautious of, or do I just need to slow down.

RED LIGHTS, ohhh I don't always appreciate the red light.. ROAD BLOCK to where I'm going.  BUT!  There are times when I get the RED light and realize, oh good I can take care of ... whatever that something is within the car that I need to, be it grab a snack or find a CD.   With God, my RED LIGHTS are... STOP.  Do not move forward.  Listen to me, I know what is ahead and I need you to know that we are not to go down that road.   RED lights aren't always fun, BUT... they can be productive, it we STOP and LISTEN.  Because sometimes it is at the RED light where you realize, oh hey, if I go this way...... OR.... When God says, GO UP HERE AND HANG A RIGHT, I have a better route up ahead for you.

Today, I'm going to proceed with my eyes open, ears available to hear and my heart fully charged and ready to go. I intend to hand over my road map, and allow God to take the wheel... lead me to the lights along the way and get me to the destination. 
The place where He has been preparing me, for what He has prepared for me
~ Oh I do love the sounds of that!

Good Morning.....

I'm HUGE on sharing how much you mean to me.    I often shoot a random text or face book message or phone call to my girlfriends, family & people who just deem the need for a smile ~ to share with them I THOUGHT OF YOU... in hopes that it makes them smile.  Makes them stop and think, awwww she loves me.  I do!

It is amazing the power of words and thoughtfulness.  To receive a morning text before your feet have hit the floor, to know that upon waking you were one of the first thoughts on someones mind.  For them to not only THINK OF YOU, but to think that much of you that they'd like to share it and make you smile.  AWWW something pretty spectacular in that.  

I woke this morning to a random, yet very sweet message... and I'm just going to say that it started a chain reaction. After we shot a few morning messages back and forth, I felt so compelled to share that feeling and sent on a message or two to people who I love and want to start there day in the same manner... start it smiling :)

So here is to the world of technology, which I so often find to be a big ol' kink in real communication... today I'm going to embrace it and utilize it for the good of HAPPY.  Today I am going to share a thought of two through out the day with random people I adore and just want to know it.   Think about it, if we all sent two messages today, that would be a multitude of happy... oh and wouldn't the world be a wonderful place on a Tuesday!

First Things, First

Do you ever stop and think about "the firsts" in life?  I did... today. 

As I contemplate going  a new direction and taking on new adventures with someone, you don't want all of the firsts with that someone to be that lasts that you had with another. 

I love mornings and coffee and being along side the river.  I've never shared that with anyone ~ someday perhaps I will. Seems that is something I have saved for the right someone.  My time along the river is rather personal... I go to think, to get over things, to give thanks for the many blessings I have.  I don't just take up space there, I engage in all that it offers.  I stop and watch the water, listen to the birds, notice when the water has risen or fallen.  It is a time for reflection and gratitude ~ it isn't just a place to go, it is a place to be at. A destination.  No one has been so deserving of sharing this, up to this point....

 And there are places I've never been, that I contemplate sharing with the right someone. Like a trip to Palouse Falls in Washington.  It would need to be shared with someone who appreciates how simple life can be, beautiful the surroundings are and how deep the conversations, or silence can go.  Someone you can just be with, enjoying fully.   Someone who shares your taste in music ~ so on the drive up you enjoy great tunes and fun conversations!

And there are firsts such as being so comfortable with someone that you can be open, raw, true and comfortable in who you are. Secure in how you look or what your thinking. Knowing that this person accepts you baggage, flaws and all that is wonderful with you... To share all that you are, inside and out.  To be good in your own skin ~ to want to put on a bathing suit to sit on a beach, or take a long walk along a shore line..talking about everything or nothing at all and not wanting run for cover. To feel so secure and safe with that one person... there is something wonderful just in the thought of that.   And something very scary as well ~ putting yourself out there, it can be difficult. Maybe not with the right person.

This is what I know.  God has been preparing me, for who he has prepared for me... I trust that. I trust that all that one goes through in life, it all has it's place, it's reason, it's tools for teaching.  And if there is someone, and I believe there is,  He will come into my life at the right time. He will come in God's time. Because I have this thought - the RIGHT GUY at the WRONG TIME isn't the right guy.  It all has to line up just as God has planned it.  You can't force it or push it or manipulate it.  You have to allow God to guide it.

I'm being guided in a wonderful direction in life right now, open to opportunities and meeting new people. I'm at a very good place, happy with who I am and where I am ~ surrounding myself with amazing family and friends.  I have a home that keeps me busy with fun projects and a job I truly enjoy. I have a faith that is unshakable. 

Life is good.

Anyone who happens to come into this picture won't complete it, but compliment it.  That's a very good place to be!

I am a Pinterest person... yep, I log on and I search for ideas, messages, giggles and style inspiration.  And some of those things I MAY actually utilize someday ~ I have the best of intentions!

I was on the site this morning and clicked to view my boards.  Just looking through them says a great deal about a person; their likes, their desires, their hopes and their thoughts.  Amazing really how much you can grasp from boards filled with "ideas".

My boards are FuN!  InSpIrInG!  CrEaTiVe!  GoDlY!  FaMiLy OrIeNtEd! UpLiFtInG!

Just seeing what fills my thoughts, my life made me smile and realize that for all the lemons that have come along.. meaning BAD DAYS..My HAPPY DAYS trump them 100 to 1.  I am blessed ~ blessed indeed!

Silliness

Getting it

Humorous

Inspired by it

At a time of technical age, where we spend more time on a computer talking than in person, more time on a lap top reading than grabbing a book, more time typing than writing ~ It is nice to see that you can still fill your life with things that inspire, encourage, teach and make you laugh. And we can utilize this technology to share it in ways that reach beyond our own grasp, into the world.. AMAZING!     Today I will go forth and share what I am filled with .. HAPPY JOYFUL GRATEFUL BLESSINGS <3  

Morning Inspired

Life is simply too short to waste my time with the drama, hurts & disappointments of this life... take them, embrace them LEARN FROM THEM ....  I CHOOSE TO LIVE,  FULLY!!!! : )

God Is Preparing Me

God is preparing me, for who HE has prepared for me....

God is preparing me, for WHO HE has prepared for me....

God is PREPARING ME, for who He has PREPARED FOR ME

It is so easy to sit and be sad, pouty, mad and frustrated. But it is much easier to be grateful.  Grateful that through life's journey God puts small mercies in our lives that allow us to grow. Grow in our own self, and grow in God. To GROW.

I want to be like that seedling today, that you place in the soil, you nurture and you wait. And wait and wait, and then.... you see something!  There is a small tiny itty bitty something that appears to be coming up through the soil. 

You wait, you wait and you wait.  Oh yes, there it is, a glimmer of the top of what appears to be a seedling.  You water, you make sure there is light and you wait, and wait and wait.  Days go by and that little, tiny itty bitty seedling begins to realize, it is alright to poke through the solid. It is good to stretch and grow. 

And as you turn away just for a moment, that seedling POPS through the solid and the seed, which you genitally laid within the soil, has changed. It has completely changed.  There is something wonderful about it now.  It has life.    And as you watch, you see that as it begins to push through the soil it continues to change and grow.

ohhh the excitement.

 

And then you wait, and wait and wait.  In time that seed that you placed within the soil has become something beautiful.  It grows and it takes on a new shape, and it is exciting. Oh the changes, the colors ~ oh my the colors.   And just when you thought you were experiencing the most exciting part of this growth process from that little seed, it bares fruit. 

Awe, the fruit.  You took the time to nurture and be patient.  You cared, you watered and you gave light.  And now, there is something beautiful bearing fruit, something wonderful to be shared. Something you weren't even expecting.

I want to be that seedling. I want to grow. I am going to nurture myself and seek the light, God's light.  And I'm going to wait.  And wait. 

And I'm going to emerge from the soil, a bit scared perhaps at times of what might be ahead, but excited because I know that there is something exciting happening.  I know that in time, with patience and trust I will bare fruit.  I will bear the fruits that God has placed within me.    And I will wait.  I will wait for God to place the right gardener in my life.   The one who will continue to be patient, to nurture, to water & give me light.  

 I am going to wait on God to bring that person, the gardener into my life, the one who he has been preparing for me.   Because I believe

 GOD IS PREPARING ME FOR WHO HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME.

L A U G H T E R

 

Relationships are complicated.  We all come into this world with nothing, and we pull pieces and have pieces removed as we interact and have relation with others.  Some pieces are full of love, joy and hope.  So pieces are full of pain, anger and doubts.  You spend an entire lifetime picking up and putting pieces back into place.  One must find the person who is willing to stand beside them, both arms filled with all the pieces.  It is the person that says, lie them down and let's sort through them that you must appreciate and realize, they are it.  They are the one who is worthy of risk.  The one who is willing to sift through the pieces, and to share with your their pieces as well ~ and this isn't just the brokenness, this is everything.  The love, joy, hope, pain, anger and doubt all of it.  No holding back.   When you find that person, hold on.  

I have pieces.  I have many pieces, many happy pieces.  And I have brokenness in my pieces.  I am a work in progress.  I am willing with the right person, to place my pieces out and sift ~ as we sift together through our lives, finding in the mix of this a friendship that brings a bond, that brings a relationship, that brings laughter.  Because ultimately that is what I am longing for in life.   A life full of laughter and a love that should be a happy ever after.  

Relationships really are not so complicated, we simply complicate them.   Here is to pieces to be laid out, hearts that find happiness and lessons along the way that bring you to a place where you can reflect and see that everything happens for a reason.   

God is good.  I woke this morning and while saying my prayers came to the understanding of many things that took place over the past few months, due to the relationship I was in. There were blessings in having him in my life for that short period, God used him as a vessel to guide me to healing in other areas.  For that I am very grateful.