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As I write this, I was thinking about the past few weeks and how the Lord has just blessed my family beyond anything that we really asked him to.   I also thought about people who are still waiting for their promise to come and how sometimes when it seems the Lord is passing out to everyone but to them, how that something just sorta rises up in them and mumbles “Wait a minute, Why am I not getting blessed? or When is my season going to come?”  I know because I’ve been there myself.  The one thing I’ve really learned though, is that it is all available to me.  I don’t want to get upset because others are getting theirs and totally miss mine because I’m off pouting somewhere.  No, I’ve learned to rejoice with others, because I know that the same blessings are available to me!

When the prodigal son left the Father’s house to go and “live it up and waste what his daddy gave him” He had to come to a place of realization.  That regardless of what he did or didn’t do the Father’s love was enough and that he could go home to the blessing. His older brother, however,  was upset that the Father would just welcome the prodigal son back home and throw him a party, kill the fatted calf, put a ring on his finger and his give him His best robe…Why? The older brother didn’t realize that all of it had been available to him all along. That he could have lived in a perpetual party, but let envy and bitterness rob him from his blessing.

How sad it will be that many Christians will get to heaven and then find out what was made available to them while they lived upon the earth.   When Jesus bled and died, he said “It is finished!” So everything is available to us, but not all things are entrusted to us right away.  Like the prodigal son had to go through some character building lessons, so do we.  My son would love to have a mustang car, he is only 11.  Do you think I will give him a mustang car now?  NO WAY….Why?  Because he is a child and he is not mature enough to handle a mustang…So many Christians are still childish and they not mature enough to handle all that they want from the Lord.  It gives the Father great pleasure to give his children the kingdom, so He is not withholding from you permnently, but only long enough to for you to build character, that whatever you want from him will not destroy you, but will benefit you.

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Whether your meandering  through a garden or strolling on a beach it is so important to take the time to just relax.  Creativity for me is therapy, whether it is painting old slats, or sitting at the computor pressing on keys to express my thoughts. something happens to me in the process.  It’s like I am refreshed or taken to a peaceful place.  I love to just flow and encourage others to go for it…. You never know how much just trying something new will lift your spirit…Who know’s you may look at the finished project  and find little pieces of your soul that may seem so scattered come together to make something so beautiful.   Go for it my friend, what do you have to loose?

“Daisies are just the friendliest flower, don’t you just think that daisies are the friendliest flower?”  I love the movie You’ve Got Mail. Daisies put me in mind of spring and I love to paint them on anything that will hold still and let me paint it.   This is an old antique window that I repurposed to give the feel of spring, I hope that it stirs spring fever in you and causes you to want to get up and go for something that you’ve wanted to do! Whether it be a spring project like painting a window, or creating a small garden area or something more simple like changing your curtains.  Whatever you choose to do, I hope this blog puts a “Spring” in your step!

Hello All,  

Well here it is a new year and a brand new chapter it seems for me to live out.   It is an exciting time, although the steps I am beginning to take are somewhat unfamiliar.  Even though I have published a book before, Caleb’s Cereal which is the book pictured. is a brand new venture for me.  It’s like having a new baby and you know you have to take care of it, but it does not mean you necessarily know how.  You just sorta play it by ear and let the baby tell you what it needs.  

More than I want to promote a book, I really want to promote  the message behind the books that I have written.   I have a passion and a desire to encourage others to follow their dreams, no matter how crazy they may seem.   I am a farm girl who was born and raised in a small little rural community in Kentucky.  Why would I, of all people, be chosen to write books?  My answer is simply this…because I said YES!   If I, of all people. can write books and be published, then there is no limit to what you can do… What is your passion?  If you do not know what your passion is, then this blog is your divine appointment because until you know what you truely desire to do, then you will spend much of your life being unfulfilled and very unhappy.  However, when you know what your passion is and you let it lead you, it is very rewarding and very satisfying. 

So this is a test!  What is in your heart to do?  The scriptures says “what your hands find to do, do it with all your might!”  This sounds to me like you have been created to do something passionately with your life and that you are to do it with all your might!  

This blog is one of my attempts to passionately pursue what is in my heart!  Hope you will follow suit and go attempt to pursue your passion!

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Good Morning All,

    Freedom is not free!  When I think about freedom

I think of all the sacrifice it took in order for me to

walk in the freedoms I have.  Not only our basic

freedoms that we have as a result of being in the

USA, but in the freedom to live our lives the way we

want to live them.

      No one can force you to live a certain way, it is

all choice.  I believe having choice is the ultimate

form of freedom.  The Lord tells us to choose Life or

Death, Blessing or Cursing… You must choose which

you want to live.   GOD does not choose for you, neither

does he make you choose, but he gives you a suggestion

as to how to choose!  “HELLO!”  Choose LIFE!

  Jesus came to give us not only life but  a life

that is full!  You may ask “A life full of what?”  My

answer is the same as the Lord’s “You choose!”  Choose

Him and life or don’t!  It’s up to you!

   The power of Life and Death are in the tongue, if 

the life you’re living is not an ideal life, change your

conversation and begin to prophesy a new life!  No it

is not simple, it takes descipline and a constant renewing

of your mind to cause you to even began to believe

that you could have a better life.  You have to change

  your own mind about you!  But, practice makes

perfect!  When you put the word of GOD in your mouth

and heart, you align yourself up with what the Lord

wants for you.  You will find that the first thing to change

is your attitude.  When you align yourself up with GOD

you gain such freedom and joy! Whom the Son makes

free is free indeed!