Saturday, April 28, 2007

DEJA VU


I just finished a week fostering 5 five week old kittens and then having the horrible duty of adopting them out! I use to think that fostering animals might be a fun thing. NOT. It WAS fun feeding them and watching them all lay face down, flat out on the platter, protecting their liitle small space of food, fun being their own personal jungle gym 3 times a day while they climbed, rolled around and fell all over each other.....fun to watch them do that "halloween cat" look with their backs arched and fur standing up jumping towards eachother....fun to doctor their little crusted eyes....fun to watch them all form one little ball of fur as they curled up to sleep. But to separate them from eachother and take them to different places yesterday left me rather melancoly. Hmmmmm......seems like I have done this before sometime in my life....oh yeah! My own children!!! Deja Vu.
I am learning lately, that to live in the NOW and enjoy what you have and what comes your way, and pay attention to your life and your day, to breath in the present and not live in the past OR the future , IS what life needs to be all about. Well, easier said than done most times, but they (and who ARE "they") say that practice makes perfect. But to even be AWARE of the need to practice living to the fullest is a difficult and thoughtful task. A needy and noble one however if we are to live to the fullest. I am sitting on my back porch this morning (thank you APPLE) and a hummingbird is less than 3 feet away from me trying to get nectar from my pansies....I guess failure and figuring it out is a part of ALL of nature....even for this confused little hummer! To fail and not figure is the futillity I think. So! Live life peeps!!! Stop. Look. Listen. There is so much to be heard.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Mother Teresa's Prayer.....Anyway

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

ANYWAY

I am not too much for country music, but this one is really good....check it out somewhere or just spend .99 cents and download it off itunes and I will reimburse you. It is worth it...

'You can spend your whole life building
Something from nothin'
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You can chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might never come your way
Dream it anyway

This world's gone crazy
It's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all your heart
For all the right reasons
In a moment they can choose to walk away
Love 'em anyway

God is great
But sometimes life ain't good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

You can pour your soul out singing
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yea - sing it anyway

I sing
I dream
I love
Anyway'

Tuesday, April 10, 2007





We have had a grand time with our grandchildren these past few weeks...here they are in only a small portion of their glory! I never understood my grandpa Church when he use to tell me "he loved me till it hurt" untill I was blessed with these.....now I understand.
"How do we make these moments last?
How do we get them to stay?
When everything passes and time goes away..." (thanks Rosie)

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

MERRY EASTER TO ALL

"If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business. The world says, Follow the wisest course and be a success, and Jesus says, Follow me and be crucified. The world says, Drive carefully - the life you save may be your own - and Jesus says, Whoever would save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The world says, Law and order, and Jesus says, Love. The world says, Get and Jesus says, Give. In terms of the world's sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks he can follow him without being a little crazy too is laboring less under a cross than under a delusion." Delusion is not grandeur but death in this case. I believe in this craziness....Merry Easter and Happy Christmas!