new prescription

'whoever is a believer in Christ
is a new creation.
the old way of living has disappeared.
a new way of living has come into existence.
God has done all this.'

2corinthians 5:17,18a

This is my new prescription. I'm going to put it on one of my old medicine bottles and take it every day.

Now that I've lived 54 years, I'm really beginning to notice my behavioural patterns...how I deal with stress in particular...
My old way of doing stress...doesn't work that well really.
God tipped me on some new ways to handle stress just yesterday. It's freeing and humbling all at the same time, but if I really believe that in Christ I am a new creation and the old way of living has in actuality disappeared, and the new way of living has in actuality come into existence and that I don't have to 'do' this miracle myself b/c God has done all this...I'm free to accept this gift and run with it.
Wouldn't you call that tremendous- what a word- I think it's tremendous. I want my old ruts to overgrow with grass and take the new paths- leaping and bounding like the new creation God has made of me.
I love God's Word!

now to the day...

some good things...

are happening...

every Monday since Christmas, my granddaughter and I have had a visit. We are reading the Hobbit and we are chatting together and we have a contest each week. This week it was to see who would do the most puzzles...counting by piece. I managed to do 2 puzzles amounting to 498 pieces...2 pieces missing...but I'm thinking that my little grandgirl will beat me. One puzzle is a historical map of Canada and the other is a drawing of a farmer and a horse and some children collecting apples. I learned a bit about Canadian geography and history. It was fun, taking a bit of time to puzzle...

So one of my prayers has been answered...it's a great way to connect with my little darling. It's a happiness I look forward to.

Girl's Club

One of the girls that has come to club since fall, has now moved away and will not be attending anymore. This is the second girl that has moved away...It makes me sad. I see these girls every week and I will miss them. The only thing I can do for them is pray for them...that's probably the best thing anyway. I love the energy they bring to my Wednesday nights...but then

it is a lot of work to prepare,and I have done it for a long time by now...I'm thinking that this will be my last year...I've said that before and then gotten back into it again, but I think my steamer is getting low...

tonight we worked on a scrapbook calendar and our sewing and our skit...then we played tag...now there's a good work out...next week we are playing glow mini golf

...I'm really tired...

life is rich

Today is a sunshiny day...
and since Christmas I have experienced a lot.

God is good.
He brings people into our lives who cheer us and encourage us...
the hard things don't go away, they seem to stay, but God helps us...this becomes our true riches...and life becomes better as a result.

Today I read..."I am the true vine, and my Father takes care of the vineyard...
He also prunes every branch that does produce fruit to make it produce more fruit"...Jesus

Over Christmas, I learned that hard things actually become good things...
my girls are far away, yes...but we really talk and the times we have together are very precious...which enriches the experiences I have here with my children close by...and now a new gift was given me just today...to realize the care of my niece...wow I'm still crying...this is so precious to me.

I was going to erase those unhappy blogs, but I forgot that part and left my journal open, didn't I?

there is no end to the goodness of God, is there?

my husband is making a fire...how comfortable that will be...

God bless you all

I'm delighted to see...

that no one has read the two blogs before this one.
If I was always to write happy thoughts, I would be a glass horse, just like the glass horse on my desk...never moves and always looks in the same direction, collecting dust.

We have had a very good Christmas...all the kids came home this year. We've had crasy times and some excellent memories have been noted...

I love the fact that we can talk things through and be done with them...on to something else and learn from the last. I've written a whole big journal of this Christmas and I'm happy for all the things that happened.

This year has been a rich Christmas...not wealthy...true rich...