Sunday Sunday

Oh how I love Sundays!

 Some Sundays I have to work. Sunday is almost always the best day of the week to work. No administration lurking around the corners. Rare surgeries to deal with. Only occassional discharges and admissions. Just taking care of sick people, which is my favorite thing to do at work.

This Sunday, however, I am not working. I am enjoying the day God created. Started off with a run at the park, 5 miles with cool sunny skies. Then a quick change of clothes for early service and singing beautiful music to Jesus. Adam Robertson spoke about types of love including God's amazing, agape love. Love that never fails and is full of daily, hourly, minute by minute, grace and mercy. That's what God's love is to me. Constant, never ending and always, always with me. Fills me up. Makes me peaceful.  Gives me hope.

And it's a love He has for EVERYONE! I so appreciate that fact. Every single person has the same opportunity to experience the love of God. That knowledge makes me happy.

Lately, I've been expressing my creativity making cards again. Loving the Unity Stamp Co. stamps.  www.unitystampco.com  Coloring with alcohol markers and cutting up gorgeous paper. Tying pretty ribbons and stamping texture images.

I love this girl so much. so much. and the statement. so much.

 This chica is so beautiful.

And another great sentiment with a lovely, young lady. 

Unity Stamp Co. has so many great stamps. And they always add something free to your order! 

Yeah, I have my next wishlist started already! 

Well, thank you for sharing Sunday with me! Hope yours is equally relaxing and full of love. 

Sweet 10K on a cold Tuesday morning

Some mornings it's hard to roll out of bed. Today was NOT one of those. For some reason, at about 5:55 AM my eyes popped open and I climbed out from under my cozy, warm covers and headed straight for my running gear.

 Love when that happens! No arguing with myself. No inner voice tempting me with fifteen more minutes of sleep. No bribing myself with some forbidden treat later. Nope. On went the pink Stephens College hoodie and my turquoise New Balance shoes and out I went, down to the park, sweet talking my tired old muscles into believing it'll be OK, just 3 miles.

Nope. Some days after I plug out the first couple miles I gradually feel better and better rather than more and more tired. So I set my goal at a 10K. Sweet. My fitbit tells me success was mine at 6.44 miles in 38 degrees at 07:13. 

Ahh. I just love to start my day like this. Great run, home to a hot cup of coffee, banana greek yogurt, homemade cinnamon bread and the internet.

Now onto lighting up my creativity up with some cute, new Stampin' Up! stamps and Hillsong music.

This is a quick little card I made with the "Beautiful Ride" stamp set from SU.Gotta love a love bug.
Hope you have the opportunity to enjoy your day with some good company!

color color color, you can never have too much color!

                Oh jeez, I need more alcohol markers! I need more colors. To say I have the major color groupings, well, maybe. But there are so so so many colors and colors make me smile.

                Remember the Harry Chapin song "there are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in a flower and I see every one".

               Take the time to look at a cloud, it's not white and gray. So many reflections! Look at a black shiny teakettle. There is blue, purple and yellow. See that green leaf? You don't see it until you see the yellows and browns and muaves.

                       I made this for my best friend. There are many more colors than red and green going on here! Doesn't this card just make you happy?

                      Here's to hoping you see something like you never have before. New colors. New eyes.

guarding your heart

you don't know what you've got til it's gone.

we've all heard that.

listen up friends. guard your sweet, tender,  loving heart.

i wanted it to be real. so real. so so forever.

 no one knows what lies in the heart of a person. not even our own heart.
 our own susceptible, longing, lonely hearts.

waiting on the love that heals. waiting on Jesus. 

not shy

Over the last few months I've been reading about personality types. People are so difficult to understand sometimes, or maybe I just read too much into actions versus words. And introspection comes naturally and frequently for me.

One thing I have discovered is that I am not shy. I have been told that, and hence repeated that, all my life. ALL MY LIFE. Like it is a deficiency. Like it is a faulty characteristic that needs to be changed. Now mind you, I am 56 freaking years old and doing a Myers Briggs personality study.

So, learning that I am an introvert has been somewhat freeing. Only somewhat, because a life time of voices in my head and in my face are difficult to silence. However, a wonderful discovery is that I am not alone. Not a bit. There's lots of us! And lots of introverted personality types that believe they are alone. Un-loveable. Un-likeable. Un-valuable. NOT TRUE!!

Now, I am on the path to convince myself I am created to be just like I am. Purposefully and wonderfully made. Comfortable with being alone. Not just comfortable....but crave it, need it, have to have it. And just as craving and needing to be connected with someone who understands this and LOVES me like I am. 

And I do not like small talk. Trivial chat. Personal, one on one conversations, that's what I enjoy. Parties? So uncomfortable. It's not that I don't want to talk to people.
No wait. It is. Ha!

So, the journey of self discovery never ends. Trying to make it an adventure :)