PURGING FOR PEACE

"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself."  Norman Vincent Peale

Slowly the year 2008 is creeping  to an end.... do something for yourself. ...Now is a good time to take inventory of your life, yourself..... Look around and inside yourself and see what is of no use to you, what is it that's in your way (old clothes, shoes, pictures, people)...I did some house cleaning this year(maybe a little longer than a year) but anyway I am finally rid of somethings (a lot of it was purely insecurity).... I had held on to stuff for so long until I felt that if  I tossed it out I would  toss out a piece of myself...It was just the opposite...By letting go of the old I discovered the new...Simple things that bring me joy....I am doing things that are purely for my enjoyment...It's okay to put self first (sometimes)....We can not enjoy life if we are not living life....This kind of goes back to an earlier entry where I talked about just being...Not being a mother, a sister or whatever but just being...I discovered by just being it helped me to get to know me...Don't  be fooled I love being a mom or whatever but knowing what's on the inside of me has made a world of difference...It has opened new doors.....It's made me a better me ...a happier me... Time is winding down there are only a few days left in '08 and now is as good a time as any to discover a new more exciting, happier you that is if you are feeling as if the world is passing you by....My final inventory tally was peace, joy and happiness...Be blessed and be a blessing to someone.

DECISIONS

Recently some one asked me the question "Are all decisions the right decisions?" I sensed the urgency of my answer and the value the person had in my opinion....So with no hesitation I said: Some decisions we make we know  it's the right decision when we make it and others we may never know if it was the right decison ...Then I realized  this person was looking for comfort some kind of asssurance....Some decisions are just easy the hard ones are  the ones that make us question who we are.....Those are the ones that haunt us ....but too these are the ones that make us stronger....Like mistakes we learn from our decisions.....Decisions can bring comfort....Decisions can bring doubt.....Decisions can bring pain....A decision brings a conclusion.....So I don't know if it's so much the decision  itself....It's the end result of the decision that causes us to question.....Knowing the end result would surely change a lot of decisions but then where does that leave character...honesty.....When faced with another decision...not what dress or shoes or tie but a life changing decision....think about this....Jesus knew the end result....He knew the pain He would endure....He knew the suffering.....Yet He decided to hang on an old rugged cross and die for us.....So we too have to bear the burdens of our decisions......and yes they are not always easy, pretty decisions....but it will mean a conclusion.