Life Lately

 

The kids are away on vacation, so I am on a little 

retreat as well.

Staying with the grand-paws.

I'm loving the Autoimmune way of life.

I'm into week 6.

I can have coffee now.

My coach split our session in two yesterday.

She will meet back with me next week.

In the meantime...

she wants me to "dream big", and set some goals on moving forward 

with my "story".

Never have I ever...

 dared to dream big...

or set goals!

I can follow someone else's plan....but create my own?

 In detail ?

By next week?

I'm thankful for her pushing me...

I think?

She offered a visual for me.

Holding a big book up to the screen,

she turned the page to somewhere in the middle.

She described the pages in the past as my life,

half of it already written.

I'm to take the lessons I've learned with me as I write the rest.

Then she started flipping page by page toward the end....

and said, " Each day that you don't make a choice, is another

page of the story left unwritten. (which made me tear up...)

 You can continue to keep writing as it is, 

or you can see it with all the potential of it being a wonderful second half, 

with the ultimate relationship being with yourself & God. 

Include your emotional health, physical health, and your environment."

"Remember to be specific."

The weather here has been gorgeous & and my "Dad's-tinker-in-the-yard-gene" has kicked in.

I have been picking up

limbs and sticks, and cleaning up the yard.

The kids haven't had the weather to get outside and work since they've moved in.

I have.

Caught up with Dad on the phone that day...he planned to do the same. 

💝

I'm heading out to explore the city's downtown area today.

I love downtowns, and

there's a quaint little bookstore the kids thought I'd like.

A few notes from my journal lately....

Examine your likes and dislikes. 

Do an audit.

A grateful heart protects against negative thinking.

We become what the people around us say we are.

You are never too old to set another goal, or to

dream a new dream.

The power to decide a new path is always in your hands.

"It's not life that bores you, 

it's the habits you choose to live with."

" If God closes someone's heart to you or denies

you access to a particular opportunity, 

it's not because you've failed

but because it is not His will."

~ Charles Stanley ~

Dare to walk the highroad.

My own understanding will weigh me down

Trust God absolutely.

I can look at life in whatever way I choose.

I can shape it into whatever I wish,

heaven or hell, it is my choice.

" Right now, you don't need to have enough faith to finish,

you just need to have enough faith to get started."

"Don't give into hopelessness or imagine there is 

nothing left for you."

~ Charles Stanley ~

'God can intervene at any moment om ways

that would absolutely astound you.'

Don't give up doing what it right.

Faithfully endure.

Confront your fears.

"When you give into fear, you're a failure."

Think your actions through before you do

something you will regret.

"There is a season to serve someone else's dream.

There is also a season to go after your own."

"Don't seek opportunity; seek God,

& opportunity will seek you."

'Don't be in such a hurry to begin the next chapter of your life

that you fail to ace the lesson the current chapter is 

trying to teach you.'

If trusting God were easy, everyone would do it.

live well & in peace....

xoxo

💞