Free To Be

     
                                                                 please listen..

                                                           



                                     In spite of me , in spite of you
                                           In spite of all I can  not do.
                                      I reach beyond what is and isn't.
                                    I keep my heart here on the present.

                                                      In spite of courage waning fast,
                                                         In spite of living moments past.
                                                    In all my insecurities,
                                                        The real and false identities.

                                         In spite of hurt, in spite of guilt.
                                          In spite of every truth revealed.
                                          I dream, I think, I feel, I love,
                                        I pray, I laugh and look above.


                                

                                                 

Where would we be without grace? That gift that makes us able to relinquish our rights and simply be free to be who we are.
Though flawed and feeble I am loved. I rest in that amazing promise!

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His love endures forever...
             Psalm 107.
                                      my favorite Psalm 
                                                

The Most Important Day

Someone told me recently the MOST important day of your life is not in the past...... the MOST important day of your life is TODAY.
Today is the MOST important day of your life!!!


LET"S PRAISE HIM FOR THAT!!



I love this song the message resonates powerfully...GOD IS GOOD....all the time...........when I feel it, and when I don't.... He never changes even when I do and I fumble and stumble, He tenderly picks me up and places my feet in the right direction....
and I say thank-you......what can I bring?

378-a vehicle to go places...:) 379- love in my life, 380- serving....graciously,381- watching the movie Lincoln,382- our fore fathers and their legacies,383-acceptance of circumstances I can't change,384-mistakes and the lessons they teach,385-a white world of beauty, 386-a simpler solution to the floor conundrum...



Reach higher......laugh harder.....walk slower.........sing louder...
   and LOVE more...Blessings, Lucy~

After All This

After all the miles we drove, and after we were delayed at the border for almost three hours.

After arriving late because the GPS we were using was set for the scenic route, and missing Casting Crowns.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_4VAX1a_A&feature=related

After we've left the Dad's to set up alone and we've run crazy, through the dark, in a theme park we've never been to just to realize it is way bigger than first imagined.

After a new day dawns , and we ride more rides than a child can dream of, and we've attended sensational concerts and listened to powerful speakers who've challenged and encouraged us.

After I've pined just a little; that second daughter was not able to join us for this...

                                              

After we're on the road towards home and we've stopped at a mall which has a Macy's and JC Penny and we've proved once again that shopping IS an art.(especially on a time crunch)
After we've had a late dinner and we pull into our drive this side of midnight,

After coffee next morning and I've marvelled at how everything has grown  and I've popped in to see my mother-in-law next door and tell her about our trip.
After the laundry has been washed, dried and folded, after we've tackled some of the weeds that threaten to besiege the place, with a fury.

After we've gathered, husked and blanched all that corn...

                                                                                                                                 


                                                    I pause, I place the flowers on the table in
                an attempt to replicate the calm I feel.

                                                                                                                                                               

                                        

                                                            

          I reflect on the wonderful vacation,time spent with friends,memories to treasure.

                                            As life's wheel, moves ever forward.

Yes ,It is all Good,Thank-you.

God,thank-you for today and all it's blissful newness.

For this glorious always out of fruit and cookies, and long lines of laundry stage of life.

For girls with imaginations; unfettered by fear.

For yesterdays' fumblings, ,failures ,and small victories, that create this beautiful collage.

For happy ending to that lost ,little girl.

For visiting nephew after kidney transplant and seeing the peace of God.

For learning how to let go...LEARNING ,not THERE yet!

For this gorgeous month of June: which is a tangent mix of every emotion.

and ofcourse that wonderful first bowl of garden lettuce!!