This is the first time I've come back to this blog in a long time. Looking back at the play room, how it looked just months ago is sort of looking at my life just months ago and the changes I've made in it. My play room is now pink and green and the furnishings have been changed around. It's more organized too. I have new chairs and a love seat also. My life is now brighter and more full and better organized.
We, as humans, especially as women tend to hold onto things just because we always have had them. Relationships. Just because you have been friends with someone for 30 years doesn't mean you have to keep those people in your life. If those people take you back to the person you were before, a person that if you met today you wouldn't particularly care for, let them go. The Bible instructs us to not keep unhealthy relationships. Just this week, I've let go of two 30 year friendships because they are unhealthy. They gave me anxiety. They took me back to being someone that I don't like. Good bye former friends. I do pray the best in life for you. I just don't want to be part of it any longer and I don't want you in mine.
Hello, new and exciting friendships! I have sisters. I have 8 sisters in fact. I have 8 sisters and 2 brothers and they are all younger than I am. How much more blessed can I be? This past summer, I got to see my sisters in a whole new light. They are adults now. They aren't little kids anymore. I ADORE them! I had so much fun with them and getting to know them as they are now. I only grew up with one of them and saw the others on occasion. Two of them were born long after I moved out on my own. The youngest is younger than both of my daughters. It was one of those mixed family things...we weren't Catholic or anything like that....just the offspring of a very fertile man and a very fertile woman, my step mother. I truly believe God gave me the gift of these amazing women and opened my eyes to them this past summer so I could say goodbye to the unhealthy relationships of my past and greet these new but old and comfortable relationships with open arms.
Over the summer I had the opportunity to share my story of being a saved Jesus girl with my sister Melissa. She is new to the whole being saved by Jesus life. It was truly one of the most beautiful moments in my life. I get choked up every time I think about it....like right now. It was our sister, Hattie that kept encouraging her to seek the Lord. Go Hattie! She's an inspiration to me now. Melissa has been saved. Her marriage, saved. Her personal relationships, saved. Her soul, saved by God.
This past weekend she sent a FB message asking me to join her in a 5 year Bible study journey with her and whomever else is interested in joining. I'm in! Her post came at the perfect time in my life. It was right when I was praying for answers about those two poor relationships I was mentioning earlier. Through prayer I received insight and the knowledge that this would help me along my journey. I've also realized I want to start journaling more...blogging....just for me. If no one reads this, that's perfectly fine. I'm getting these thoughts out of my head. It is so much easier to sort through them.
That is all for now. I need to go fix the Misters lunch so he can go to work. It's what I do with a smile every morning. Yes, I'm being untruthful. Some mornings with a smile and some with a poor attitude. This morning it will be with a smile. I'm going to have a great day and I pray that you will too.
