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In with the New

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Out with the old, in with the new

Out with the old! Shoes? car? beliefs? Ideas? Hair? I’m learning to embrace the new. New year? New job? New DAY? December was filled with new AND old! Traditions, circumstances, and reflections. Childhood, motherhood, and career. Before cancer and my tiny RV life to after diagnosis and city life. New treatments, old diseases. New will happen whether we want it or not. We can hang on to the “old” for comfort and familiarity (shoes anyone?). Yet, there are old things I don’t need. Even certain beliefs! As I embrace the new year, I will continue to cling to the New Covenant way of life! There’s no longer an OLD Covenant (God knew we couldn’t keep it!). Jesus, fully God and human, fulfilled the law and died in our place. I’ll embrace the NEW heart I received through faith; out with the old! How can I NOT be filled with gratitude for another day? Another year? It’s fine for me to cherish and remember the past like motherhood & RV life. But I need to live in the now…the NEW. How about you?

I’ve included 2 versions of my one pg. news (.jpg & PDF). Happy 2026!

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Heavenly Hibernation

It’s been a heavenly hibernation! I’ve missed you, friends. It’s been one week since the start of a new year–I’m still here and winning because of Christ! It doesn’t mean that life isn’t challenging; nor situations easier. BUT my life & hope IN CHRIST propels me through each up and down. I expect that the more I live a surrendered life, the more the enemy will try to disrupt it. I’ll keep choosing faith over finances, hope over hard things, & peace instead of pessimism. Do you know when we choose to surrender INTO our Savior, we can experience heaven on Earth.

My resolution for 2026? I’m determined to continue “dying” to myself daily. My heart wakened several years ago for something other than the promise of heaven AFTER life. I wanted the Christ life IN ME. In letting go of earthly expectations, I can be filled with the presence of God’s power. I am aware of my utter ignorance in grasping salvation (as Andrew Murray would say). Surrender is the only way! It’s as simple as the appearance of light at morning and the shifting of seasons. Not my power, but HIS. Hibernation this winter will be heavenly (& healthy!)!

Note: Watch what happens when you add a side of silliness, a helping of humor, and a pinch of patience (ok, CUPS)!

Happy new year, dear friends & family! My prayers are with those who are experiencing the difficult “new”. 🙏🏻❤️

Do you know how loved you are? ❤️THANK YOU for your continued support!

May 2026 be filled with precious memories, hope, faith, & joy. 💚

Keep the faith, have hope! 💚

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What’s in Store for 2024?

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“My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.”

Psalms 73:26

“Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

John 13:35

“Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

“If we were perfect, we wouldn’t need a Savior. It’s not about perfection-it’s pressing for progression and surrendering to self. When the world can’t satisfy, our Savior can saturate—filling voids and bringing value to the valleys and peace at the peak.”

K.L. Hale

“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“One touch of nature makes all the world kin.”

John Muir

“Peace begins with a smile.”

Mother Teresa

“The wound is a place where the Light enters you.”

Rumi

“There. I’ve done my best. If that won’t do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.”

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

C.S. Lewis

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

C.S. Lewis

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Life is a succession of lesson which must be lived to be understood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

Ernest Hemingway

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Confucius

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.”

Mark Twain

“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work form beginning to end.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11

May 2024 bring joy, good health, laughter, and love lessons. Undoubtedly, it will bring the unexpected, too. What gives you hope in the haphazard? Joy in the juggles? Persistence in pain? Faith in the fuzzy? May love light your way.

You are all treasures to me. Thank you for your love, support, and prayers. I look forward to my future with faith, family, friends, flannel, and faith!

You are enough. You are loved.💛

Have faith💚

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January, Journeys, & Joy

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Three years ago, almost to the exact date, I published my first piece on WordPress. Nervously, I hit “publish”. Writing regularly has been a lifetime goal. After many ups and downs in life, I had experiences in my soul that needed to come out and land somewhere. A page seemed suitable. The best part of my blogging beginnings? Finding all of you. Throughout the country and world sat others like me with words filling their souls and minds. Experiences that each held that can freely soar and soak into the like-minds of others. Technology shifted our worlds. Rather than sitting alone wondering if anyone “out there” feels, thinks, dreams, or lives in ways like you, fresh freedom becomes your new frontier. You’re front facing and forward. Others understand.

Together we can embrace the circumstances that circumvent our lives and bring change. I’m going to allow my journey and my joy to juxtapose-this beautiful contrast will be evidence of how I’ll embrace each day.

Happy 2023 my WP family, friends, and readers. I’ve missed you.💕

Have faith 💚

Please accept my apologies if I’m unable to respond to you today. I’m currently navigating situations that will, hopefully, result in a more regular routine in writing and reading! I appreciate your support, friendship, and PRAYERS more than you can imagine! Enjoy your day and I can’t wait to communicate with you! I’ll leave you with a quote and encouraging verse!

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”-C.S. Lewis

But those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31

What’s New in ’22?

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Will we ever heal
or stop the repeal?
Something new to battle,
minds and mouths rattle.

Our own routines
or what’s seen on a screen,
either right or wrong
with no in between.

No matter the left,
no matter the right,
politics, health, & life,
something’s sure to ignite.

The road less traveled
or in the fast lane,
we make our speeds
hard to maintain.

We push and pull
work hard to display,
trendy and popular
is this really the way?

Another new year
the same old song.
It will be better this time
what could go wrong?

We shrink to the moment
get lost in the thought,
lose sight of eternity,
forget what’s been taught.

Justice and peace,
kindness and love,
mercy and freedom,
We need help from above.

Concern for another
and a shot of care,
immunization to hate
might boost good air. 

K.L. Hale

What isn’t new? The free gift of grace and love from Jesus Christ. No matter what, you are loved. 🤍

Wise words

“Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.” John 8:12

“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”-1 Peter 5:7

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” -Mother Teresa

“A smooth sea never made a good sailor.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you let your light shine, you unconsciously give others permission to do the same.”-Nelson Mandela

“Change your thoughts and you can change the world.”-Norman Vincent Peale

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”-William James

“A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.”-Albert Einstein

“Whether you think you can or your can’t, you’re right.”-Henry Ford

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”-Mahatma Gandhi

“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”-C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”-C.S. Lewis

“Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we will ever do.”-Brene` Brown

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”-Abraham Lincoln

“To be yourself in a world in that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”-Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.”-Oswald Chambers

“What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”-A.W. Tozer

“If you’re willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you’ll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.”-Kurt Warner

Here’s to hope and faith that 2022 be a year of infectious kindness, love, and peace! Thank you for your support and friendship🤍

“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”-Hebrews 11:1

Have faith💚