The Holidays

Well,  My Christmas shopping is DONE.
It's been done since Black Friday! (I stayed out all night and most of Friday to finish it all.)

Next on the agenda is to get my boy a haircut. It will be his fourth or fifth. (I've actually lost count because he's had so many already and he's only 15 months old.)

I was thinking last night as I was trying to go to sleep about how blessed I truly was and how God has and is just so involved in the intricate details of my life.

Have you ever thought about that? (If not, you should.)

I mean, the tiniest little things, He's involved in.
A text message at just the right time.
A sunny day when you think you just can't take another cloudy one.
Finding a cool new song that you can't help but sing along to.
A card in the mail.
A kiss from my son
Or even better my awesome husband!
A good hair day. (Not just oh my hair looks nice today, but a my hair looks like I paid someone 200 dollars to fix it kind of good hair day!) Those don't happen too often for me. Lol.

I've thought a lot lately about how ridiculously blessed I am and how my life has been so easy in comparison to some people's lives.

You know it's really easy for me sometimes to look at some people's lives and think, they can do better or they got themselves into that situation.
But then I'm reminded that it's purely the grace of God that has allowed me to accomplish what I've accomplished or to have the things I have or be in the place I'm.

I'm thankful that He thinks of me.
I'm thankful that He favors me.
I'm just so plain thankful that He's there and bothers with even the little stuff in my life.
And yours too!

The Great Divide

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

This is how I'm feeling today.
Ready to be done with it all.
Ready to kiss this world good-bye.
See ya later, alligator.

I'm feeling my sin which is manifesting itself as FEAR.

Man, is it ever a problem for me!
Usually at night as I'm trying to drift off to sleep and then the cold hand grips my heart and threatens to squeeze the life out of it.
My mind (which is always thinking) begins doing double-time and I imagine in great detail any and every tragedy that could happen to me, including my own demise, which should bring relief, but then I just feel sad that John Owen has to live without his mother.
RIDICULOUS!

I've been feeling a lot lately and not necessarily thinking rationally.
If I'm not careful and coat of blahness will wrap its arms around me and I'll find my day ending with non-productivity and nothing much accomplished.

Yet again, I'm painfully honest in hopes that you (and I) see Christ.

I know that as much as His grace was sufficient, as much as His peace surrounded when Ella Grace was with us, it surrounds us now.

Some days I find it hard to walk in it.

I know that there is a time for mourning and weeping.
And then there's a time for laughing and dancing.

I think I'm in the Great Divide between the two. (Headed towards the laughing and dancing, of course.)

By the way, I love C.S. Lewis and not for his Chronicles of Narnia which I've never read, but for his other works such as, Mere Christianity, and The Problem of Pain.
You should check them out if you haven't already.

Thanks for praying.

Giveaway

Well, I have to tell you all about this AWESOME giveaway that I found.
I'm an avid reader of House of Smiths blog (you all should too if you like to craft and decorate inexpensively). I found this other blog with awesome decorating ideas too! It's called Perfectly Imperfect. You should check it out. She's giving away some of House of Smiths' vinyl (a great deal). Who doesn't like free stuff, right?!

Happy Christmas Decorating to everyone!