Month of Gratitude - Day 9

 

Today was one of those beautiful mornings that I love to walk thru the farmer's market. The humidity was low, the breeze was blowing softly so there was no chance that I could get too hot. It was a just perfect day.  Living in Florida these days are so rare, in which one actually enjoys getting outside and enjoying it.  I  was just walking by and something caught my eye, a beautiful shade of red and black. I looked again and it was a butterfly.  I love butterflies because they so symbolize me and my journey that I have taken.  I feel like I have found my wings and I am ready to soar.  When I saw this butterfly I felt like asking if I could tag along and fly to where ever he/she was headed. But then I had to think isn't that exactly what I am doing? I am praying and asking for wisdom in where God wants me.  Is it here in Clermont? The Gulf ? Or where?  I am so content here and I feel I have a safety net here in which I feel safe and secure.  But I know God has a plan and I am patiently waiting for him to reveal more of what he wants for me but it is in God's time not my time. So for now these wings are flying close to the ground,  but they are ready to expand a wee bit.  But I am so glad I have left the cocoon stage and I am in some ways spreading my wings. That's the amazing part of this journey <3  Be Blessed Peeps

Blessings

Month of Gratitude ~ Day 8

How is it that something that is free is something we often for get to give others!  I am sure yourshaking your head at that comment what do we hesitate to give right?  What I am talking about is a SMILE.  How often we pass others and we don't take a moment just to acknowledge someone and tell them to have a nice day?  This happened to me today while I was helping afriend and we were at a store a stranger walked past me and no only said hello and Smiled buthe also said to have a blessed day.  It came a right moment a moment that I needed to be remindedat others see what we do and the way we all,talk and act often can make someone'sday or It can tear someone one apart.  That smile yesterday put a smile on my face but it also reminded me to pass a smile along.  

Proverbs 17: 22: says " A merry heart does good , like medicine. But a broken spirit dries the bones.    We can either be the medicine someone needs or we can quench someone's spirit,  choose the medicine It's good for the soul!!!

Blessings 

Month of Gratitude - Day 4-7

Funny how technology can be good and bad at times.  I had written 3 gratitude posts but they ended up in my draft folder even though I had scheduled them to automatically post.  With that being said I decided to combine in a blog of 4 days of gratitude!!!

Day Four  ~ I am so thankful for my eating healthy.  This journey of weight loss has had me examining how I eat why do I eat what I do? Is it healthy for me or not? Am I eating to fill a void? Am I eating cause I am hungry or just for comfort?  My eating before my weight loss was so focused on satisfying my hurts that I ate e wrong things. Focusing on self care and eating well is such a blessing to me for which I am thankful.

Day Five ~ Thankful today that technology invented text messaging.  For the hearing impaired this is so vital in communicating.  Even now I often will say to my boys that I don't understand what they are saying and to just text me!  That is the best for me and still is. That way I know I heard it right or wrong but have the accuracy in a text.  Again it's the little things we so take for-granted.

Day Six ~. Thankful today for the blessings of hearing the apprehension of upgrading this aid has been stressful wondering how I am going to pay for it all yet knowing that God has it all worked out is called Faith!  Hooking up to my audiologist laptop and being programmed with my New Ears has been wonderful even with a few kinks!  Never take your hearing as something you never lose cause I did.  

Day Seven ~ The Gift Of Friendships is such a blessing having friends who love and support you thru it all.  Never judging you just standing beside you in the good times and the bad times they are their to get you through the storms of life.  Friendships are valuable and should never be taken  for-granted.  So many times friendships come and go sometimes they were only meant for a season, yet for me they never leave my heart or my prayers.  Tell a friend today for how much they mean to you. You will be surprised at how much you mean to them too,

Blessings 

Cathie 

 

Month of Gratitude - Day Three

We for that matter I often take things for granted, I assume all will be ok.  And for the most part it usually works out that way. Yet, is it always a good thing to assume we will get a second chance?  A Re-do?  We get our hair dyed and it is not the right color we can run to the store and get a new color and most likely  change the results.  But is that how it always is to be?  Is their always a quick fix? 

I feel the past three years has been a year of second chances, to restart that journey I started so long ago but to look at things differently, to see people differently, to help those in need more to think of others before myself. I have been stretched, grown and in ways changed.  What has truly changed is living by Faith.  The Faith to make these necessary second chances.  Is life easier?  Not sure on that, but I know that I know that God is with me every step of this journey. And thankful that I have a second chance to make things right as long as I keep surrendering.  So today, I am truly thankful for this second chance that I have been given.  It's an amazing journey. 

Lamentations 3:21-23                    
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Grace and Blessings

Cathie

Month of Gratitude - Day Two

 

Day Two on this month of Gratitude and I am finding that it is endless what I am thankful for.  We have so much to really be thankful for and often we take things for granted. So this month  I am trying to focus on just that, find the things we take for granted so that I can appreciate those things in a fresh new way.

Last night I got home late after an evening at church, only to have my 19 year old son tell me something is wrong with the light in the laundry room.  Being the head of the household now has made me think and act in ways I never did before because I had a husband to take care of those issues.  But I went to check out the fuse box, and all was ok. I then proceeded to the laundry room and found that all the light would not come on.  So then I thought, wonder if it is just something as simple as a light bulb being blown out. And so I took out that light bulb and put in a fresh new one and instantly we had light.  I think my 19 year old felt a little silly not thinking of that yet, it reminded me of how we are  truly lost with out that light shining so brightly. 

 In Psalms 119:105 it says "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"  God is not the physical light as we need for everyday living,  yet God is the light that leads us on a path that he has designed for us.  The opposite of light is darkness and often times when storms come our way we tend to run and find those candles, Often we have forgotten where we put them.  At least in my household that often is the case.  Yet God is our light and we only have to reach out to him to light the way and he will direct our paths. 

Next time you need some extra light, it may not be the physical light that we so desire but the spiritual light that only our heavenly father can give us.  Rest assured God's light will never dim.  It will be the same yesterday as it will be tomorrow. And it will shine until eternity. So thank you God for lightening our way, and for showing us the path to take.  It maybe a path filled with hardships and ups and downs, but I know you will light the way. 

Blessings and Grace

Cathie 

Month of Gratitude - Day One

 



November 1st means Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and many are already thinking of that scrumptious turkey dinner. Yet taking a "day" to be thankful for me is not enough.  So this year I have been challenged to write a set of things I am most thankful for.  I am not sure I can think of 28 things to talk about between now and that scrumptious turkey meal, but I am going to try each day to make a go of this.  It's not to late to join me if you want or post a comment about something YOU are thankful for.  So Here I go.

What am I thankful for today?  I would have to say Laughter so often when times get difficult the one thing we seem to drop from our life is to be happy and laugh at life and even at times at your self for your mistakes.  I didn't realize how much I missed laughing until one day someone said something to me, and I didn't understand them correctly and I started to laugh and the funny thing was it was not really that funny, yet I could not stop the laughter from escaping my mouth.  I realized at that moment how good it felt to laugh again.  It made me feel alive and that I had a life worth living.  It might sound like a simple thing but for some life is hard and they can't imagine being able to laugh.  I know that no matter what happens on the journey I know God wants us to be laugh and have joy deep down in our hearts.  So take it from me a hearty dose of laugher is the best medicine to a fragile heart !!

Grace and Blessings
Cathie 

"Merry Humbug Christmas Blog Link-Along"

Merry Christmas Snow ,A.K.A. Joss M. Snow  is a 26 year old Corporate PR Girl that in her mind was born on the wrong day. December 25th is to be a day for opening presents from Santa Claus not being born. But no matter how much Joss wished and wished to change her date of birth that was an impossible feat. To quote Joss,(A.K.A. Merry Christmas) "by the time she turned twenty-five, she had just about all she could take of her given name.  She'd carried that thing around with her like a joke book tucked into her back pocket".  So what did she do she decided enough was enough and she decided to wipe out Christmas entirely, and to take the curse off of her name.  So the day after her 26th Birthday she officially changed her name to Joss M. Snow.  A normal plain name wouldn't you say?  But there is nothing normal about Joss as much as she loves life, her joy is her  PR Firm with business partner Ryan, and taking time to be with her best friend Reese. Joss and Reese for the past 5 years have escaped the Christmas Wrath. Even with changing her name, she finds that she does not like Christmas. She avoids it at all cost. This year was a no exception, she found a  Bah Humbug Cruise sailing to the Mexican Riviera now does that not sound like a perfect getaway to avoid the Christmas Season? Seriously,  For Joss their is nothing like a fresh Praline Cheesecake, or any kind of cheese cake for that matter. She is a loyal friend and once and her become friends it is friends for life. Just ask Reese about their friendship.  It is a friendship made in heaven.  Then there is  David Cassidy aka Keith Partridge from the Partridges family is her teen idol, that has carried over into her young adult life.  Her constant companion Caleb is a sheepdog but hasn't realized he has "outgrown" the lapdog phase. Reese and Caleb are her family.  The great adventures for Joss is sitting behind a desk, drumming up ideas for various ad campaigns for her corporate clients, yet she finds herself every year escaping the reality of Christmas at least of the past five years.  This year is  the not the exception, her Bah Humbug Cruise may turn out to be the Merriest Christmas of all.