Keep on being loving....

Love one another and you will be happy,

It's as simple and as difficult as that! 

............quote from Michael Leunig, cartoonist (1945-)

Today........................

 

 

Today.....

 

Today.....just for today

....give me Your wisdom,

....give me Your peace,

as YOU

please....work out my future!

...Amen



Facebooking Jesus?

Should I add Jesus to my list of  Facebook friends?

If I were to Facebook Jesus,

Along with all my friends,

Would he get more attention

Than he usually gets from me?

If Jesus facebooked me,

To add him to my list;

Would I be too busy,

And press ignore to him?

These tho'ts ran thro' my thinking,

As I spent two hours atleast,

Conversing and rechecking,

 Messages and Newsfeed!!

....dgporritt reflections for 2013

Keeping Christmas Simple.........................

Simple Christmas......................

Keeping Christmas simple can relieve lots of stress.

Last Saturday, for example, I piled our kitchen table

with little gifts ... things that we had purchased during

the year's sales or keepsake items.

Then, my husband and I discussed who should get what.

At first it was exciting;

Then is was frightening.

Did we really have anything that our grandkids would like?

Finally I started making fun little notes

to go along with random little gifts.

Eventually it all got wrapped and labeled!

It is best not to spend too much at Christmas.

Let the family love spread through your little notes of love!

Keep Christmas simple....

AND

It will be

Loving to cook!!!!!

It's all about loving what you do?
(not entirely)

I have been noticing that even a great cup of coffee and tasty muffin can wait, when I am so wrapped up in writing that I forget about my snack beside me!

It's called loving what you do....your passion.

However, if you really love who you are doing something for...

the above is also true.

I am not the greatest cook or baker;

but when I think of my husband's favorites

I actually can get really enthused!

"The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking:

love for those you are cooking for."

.....Sophia Loren

Out of My Slump......................

Early in the summer, at a Ladies' Morning Out...I declared that I was moving out of a slump that I had been in.   There had been some huge 'family' waves that had swept over me, and personally I knew that I was losing momentum emotionally and physically.  It seemed important to me to audibly declare a victory over the past ... and to break out of the turmoil!  To have God on my side ...and to have this group of ladies agree with me has been very freeing.  I give the Lord all the credit for this!

Quote for the month:

"Dwelling on negative thoughts is like

fertilizing weeds."

N. V. Peale

My Day Off.......................

What part of day off did I miss?

Please don't ask me why...but even tho' it is my day off...I can't seem to get it together.
What part of 'day off' am I not understanding?
Is it the DAY or Is it the OFF... what happened to this particularly disappointing day?
Even making my own breakfast seemed to defy the "day off" status.
All day it seemed like I was waiting for the great "aha" moment; but if it came, would I recognize it as such?
By 2:00 p.m. I almost went into panic mode as I saw my 'day off ' slipping away.
By 5:00 p.m. I was mentally recalculating that I hardly had twelve hours left before I'd hear the alarm 
sounding...signifying my eight hour work day was soon to commence.
"What's wrong with me?" I wailed inwardly to myself.  Even I tho't that  I seemed to be difficult to get along with!
Was my expectations of how much I would accomplish too high?
Was my desire to do nothing fighting with my 'to do' list?
Was I just missing the usual structure of a work day?
Maybe I was just too 'strung out' over some family dynamics that I couldn't solve even if I drove the  6 hours to be personally with them.
Ever had a day off like this?   Whew!   I am envisionig a great show of hands!  I feel better already!
Thank you!