stretching.....

I am learning the importance of stretching. Just as a moving river keeps freshness and nourishment for its inhabitans, so life flows when stretching takes place. Stretching keeps certain things at bay. Things like stagnation, slothfulness, boredom. My body breathes better when I stretch and allow oxygen to flow thorough my muscles and bloodstream. My brain functions better when I allow new information to stretch its patterns and habits. My spirit is more in tune with God's heart when I allow him to stretch my experiences.

This summer is definitely an academic stretch. 8 hours of UNT grad school learning the layers of library management that is necessary to keep all the fun stuff in the library going.

I am being pulled towards a  spiritual stretch, well maybe more of a challenge. The patience and willingness to look towards parenting, post parenting. :) Nurturing is part of what God has put into women. Yet, He created our children to need our day to day nurturing for 16 or so years. Then we usually get a dog, cat, bird, swimming pool, etc. We get things that fill in the time that we were spending taking care of children. I feel that God is going to use my nurturing in a mentoring setting. Where? How? When? I don't know.  But this is not a time for me to drop or ignore the life skills that God has shown me are priority.

End of the Day

The sun is moving on to the other side of the world to shine on billions of people's tomorrow [some whom I know personally] and my day is coming to a close.  I'm writing here, not because I intend to be profound, but because I want to talk.

Today has included conversations with my husband, my children, my dog. It has included cleaning house, preparing food, eating. I have helped with sermons, internet downloads, imovie with subtitles, relationship advice, wording of dreams, planning of grad school -- resourced information for a coworker's project;  read scripture; prayed; touched base with family in crisis; read, facebooked,... oh, and I cut hair.

I have felt guilt over not leaving my house, not getting grad school work done, not being involved in an outreach of some sort today, and not working on fine arts stuff.

My day has been full. I have cried over others hearts and their struggles in life. I have laughed heartily at stories told from interesting perspectives. I have hugged and encouraged.

I think today I have been a mom. Not a superwoman. Not Sara Palin. Not June Cleaver. 


Just a mom. I like it.

So Young!!!

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wow. in a workshop today and had to sign into flickr....found these pics. look how young my girls were! such a fun life...watching these beautiful babies grow into womanhood!!!! :-)

Thoughts: Chosen

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A new life is placed in the hands of two average human beings. An eternal being is now being cared for by you…what every day decisions will you make to form this amazing, complicated, intricate human into the canvas God will use to create a brilliant piece of art for His glory?

Daily actions build habits, habits build lives. Words are part of each day, whether spoken, signed or written. Our words have the power to build or destroy. Each word spoken over a child encourages, molds, directs or breaks down, destroys, harms.

If each human is chosen by God for a purpose that effects eternity....our actions toward those humans should be in light of that knowledge. God has chose each small person to grow into a bigger person and be His friend.

What actions do we do that encourages the relationship between our children and God?