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I'm Happy Happy Happy

Ok I just want a fun post.  I want one of my favorite spiritual posts from well known writers like Ann Voskamp or Lysa Terkeurst, to be... well... not sad.  Now just wait, don't get your panties in a bunch. These helpful posts are such a blessing when we are struggling. When my life feels as if it is spinning out of control, when my anxiety and fear of the unknown is shoving it's heavy weight on my shoulders and my grey hair goes from partially gray to ALL OVER GRAY, when my scale reads 10lbs heavier because I am a stress eater I NEED TO BE REROUTED!  I need to know who is on my side.  I need to know that "this too shall pass" that I need to "cast my cares on Him"  These amazing posts pull many people including myself out of the depths of despair.  Or even a preemptive boost to not let Satan have a foothold in an area that we were almost tempted to open the door to him.  I love finishing one of those blogs and hearing myself say "amen" to an empty
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Dry Bones

I'm not sure anything has struck me so significantly then this summer when I read and heard the words from Ezekiel 37. "The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.  He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.  He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live? ... Then he said to me, 'Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ' dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones; I will make breath enter, and you will come to life... as I was Prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound and the bones came together, bone to bone..." I'm sorry, What?  Bones rattling together and then they come alive?  Again, I'm sorry what? All of the sudden, I imagined my own church sanctuary starting from the far back corner (Yes that's over there by
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Contentment

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I'm ok with this And also I'm ok with this  Because sometimes it looks like this Google defines contentment as a state of happiness and satisfaction. Deep sigh... what we all long for.  I think I am more disturbed by Google's definition of discontentment.  The definition of discontentment is a "restless desire or craving for something one does not have."   I'm pretty sure that is a similar definition to another word..."jealousy."  We shouldn't be jealous of things we don't have, but if I don't have that restless desire for something else am I considered lazy?  Ryan and I struggle with two different attitudes. I am happy and content with where I am. I don't have a inner drive to "go big or go home."  My drive is to go far enough to get it done.  I am far from lazy. I work constantly and rarely sit down. My fitbit is proof.  But should I be desiring more? Right now my schedule is full of picking up
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Introduction

Well, I guess I am ready to start this blogging journey.  I know, I know I am a little late on this game. I have been reading successful blogs for years now, this seems so..."early 2000's."  However, this is my time to write something worth writing about. (I also have 3 kids who all wipe their own bums finally so I have a little bit more time on my hands than I did a couple of years ago)  Intro to me: I am a loud, outgoing joyful person who has a relationship with Jesus Christ, in whom gave His all and, to quote a song, "All to Him I owe."  I am a mom to 3 children, Addison, 10, Alayna, 8, and Alex, 5.  My husband, Ryan and I adore each other (I think...most of the time he likes me) and I have a dog who is so dear to my heart but is very old sometimes I tap him to make sure he is still alive.  I am Nurse and I love my job. I love helping people, I love the people I work with and I love the experiences I have had in each job setting.  I am sure these stories wil
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