when you worry and hurry through your day...it is like an unopened gift...thrown away!!!

Good evening friends, it has been such a long day, I cannot tell you why is seems to be so long, just that it feels it has gone on and on, and on. I pray your day has been a good one and that you and yours are now relaxing and able to spend time together.

In prayer this evening I asked God to bless those who are suffering loss today, I cannot begin to imagine losing my Wayde or one of our children, I cannot even begin to know how that type of pain would feel. I asked God to bless them with his loving comfort and reveal to them that this is not goodbye, it is merely "until we meet again" Father hold this family in your arms and allow them you strength as they begin to make plans for the funeral. I asked God to give a special blessing to a sweet golden girl who has become frail with age, who is suffering so with confusion and weakness, may she feel comforted and calmed, may her caregiver be stilled in the turmoil and allowed to feel the sheer love that is being poured upon her in so many prayers and so many thoughts.I asked God to bless my friend who has just lost her baby and is now suffering with blood clots, she has just gone back to the hospital with a clot thought to be around her heart, Father place your healing hands upon her and take this clot condition from her body, make her strong and healed.  I asked God to continue to bless my baby girl as her own baby grows inside her, I asked God to bless each of us with his peace, his calm and his comfort. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask all of these blessings. Amen

So many times in life we do not take time to smell the roses, we do not take time for the small stuff when in reality these are the things that life is all about...

hear the music

Author Unknown

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word "refrigeration" mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about going to lunch in a half hour?" She would gas up and stammer, "I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain." And my personal favorite: "It's Monday." She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches... We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now... go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to do... not something on your ‘SHOULD DO’ list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift... Thrown away... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.