Consider the Lilly

                                                                                 Six Months It's been 6 months with you not here. Six months. Half a year. Six months. It doesn't seem like it's been that long in one way, but in another it seems like an entire lifetime ago.   Six months full of tears, questions, what ifs, laughter, and the indescribable pain of losing your dad. No one or really nothing can prepare for this.   Thanksgiving was going to be different this year. We weren't having a Thanksgiving dinner like we always do. It was too much for Mom. I get it.   I hope these anniversaries get easier. It seems like they loom and then it's here. The date you left us. This one seems especially harder with it being six m...

                              Why I Quit Young Living I have promoted Young Living publicly for over five years now.  So, this is the only reason that I am choosing to share why our family has decided to quit.  I love YL’s products, and we use a ton of different ones in our home on a daily basis. There are a couple reasons that I’m not going to disclose publicly either.  This is in no way to give YL a black eye or the MLM businesses.  I’m not writing for either of those reasons.  This is a long story so if you want to find out why , keep reading. :) Back in the fall 2021, I decided that in January 2022 it would be one of my goals to really focus on my YL business and get it up and running more than I had ever done before.  I had spoken to quite a few people who told me that after I got it back up in January that they would join me.  One person I know for sure ...

                                                                               Giving Place: Part 1   What do you do when you feel like you have a million things to say and not one word will form?  I have important words shut up in my bones.  They need out.  They need to fall where they may.  Maybe none of you will even read them or take what I have to say to heart? I don't know. But what I do know is if one of you will read and consider in your own heart, then I have fulfilled my purpose in doing so.     Nobody is talking about these things. Is that why I feel the need to share? There are tons and tons of people involved and children and our futures are at stake and nothing.  You can hear a pin drop while the enemy ...

  Don’t mistake a friendship for a mission.   I don’t believe in coincidence.   The Lord strategically puts people in our lives for a number of different reasons, times and seasons. We have to lean in to discern is this a friendship or is this a mission?    

 Are there any noble?  Is anyone really who they say they are?  Is social media all "influencers"? Is anything really true?  What happened to being unique or authentic? That's always been what I have been drawn to. Someone who sets their self apart from the rest. I've never been a moth to a light kinda girl. Most are. Most won't readily admit that and that's okay. You are one of two camps, either okay with that or haven't worked that out for yourself.   I have been praying about that same thing. Are they're any noble? Are there any truth seekers? Not your truth, but the ultimate truth. Do I want the ultimate truth or am I settled in my own truths? I crave truth, like literally in my bones. I hate a lie or a half truth (which is a whole lie). I crave people in my life who aren't social media perfectionist. Who want the same things in their own unique life. I like the weird. The song writers  who writes the lyrics of our hearts. The mystics who the w...

  Peter Piper Its an all to well known tongue twister. Its catchy too. I can hear children singing it and trying so hard to get it right. And the embarrassed laughter if they don’t. I was randomly thinking about this today and it made me wonder, “just who is this Peter?” and “what’s a piper?”   Well, a quick Google, or for me a Duck duck go, search and its done.   According to “bon appeitt”, Peter was a one-armed French country man. He was a horticulturalist and a missionary.     He traveled all over and smuggled some of the most aromatic spices and herbs that we know today such as clove and nutmeg.   He gathered plants and flowers from his excursions all over the eastern world. Peter planted gardens in his native land with all the gems he had collected from the tropical world known in those days.     Can you imagine how lovely his gardens must have looked to all the villagers.       Of course, to anyone else, they probabl...

  Psalm 23 ~ A Psalm for Today Hmm, this set of scripture is so beautifully poetic, but so over used and underappreciated.  Poetry? I’m not a huge fan myself.  But the language and the way it’s written has drawn me in.  As I have said, I love these verses, but have not always been a fan because of its over-use especially at funerals.  It’s not wrong on any account to these use this passage at a funeral, but for me, I find this passage is for us, now, in the land of the living. We’ll talk about that more in a minute. A little back story, for the month of December I decided that I wanted to read through the book of Psalms sections per day for the whole month. My plan was to make notes on things that stood out and go back over those parts more in depth. I read Psalm 23 and that was it. Didn’t make any notes just read it for the sake of reading it and marking it off my list.  Its February now and I’m still working my way through Psalms and my notes. Something k...