Well, I did it! Yesterday, I managed to finish, yes finish all three controversial books in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. (I’ll tell you all about “that” later…) But guess what else I did yesterday!? This is really hard to believe;… especially from this not-so-athletic-hott-grey-haired mama of four. I biked 25 miles! Yes! You heard me right! 25 MILES! And, we have five other witnesses and the cell phone photos to prove it! I still can’t believe it. Dan took us all to the canal in Hancock, MD, to ride bikes on the Western Maryland Rail Trail. On a beautiful summer day, we began our journey west with the mission to go 10 miles and return! Cycling along with Violet, her friend Katheryn, Dan, Isaac, and Levi, we traveled all the way to the end! We were all so hyped and excited, our curiosity lead us an extra few miles just to see what the end of the trail looked like. Seeing a deer, squirrel, and a few chipmunks along the way, the picture perfect day was not … [Read more...]
The Daily – Big Fat Failure
Sometimes I feel like a big fat failure. It's like I take one step forward and two steps back in some areas of my life. I often ask God if He made a mistake choosing to pick me as one of His daughters! Seriously, I am only trying to be honest with you. I have by NO means "arrived". I am in a daily battle with my flesh and many times my flesh wins. I can be temperamental, blunt, unkind, selfish and downright prideful! I am daily bringing something before the Lord...especially some sort of verbiage I blurted out without thinking! For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. - Proverbs 24:16 (amplified) THANK GOD for the hope I find in the above Scripture! This verse was written just for me! LOL! I am righteous through the Blood of Jesus and I fall quite a bit. I often feel like I need special glasses just to make it through a day without blowing it! Yet, even through my own self doubts, I find myself remembering to depend on God, and … [Read more...]
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