What makes Me

What makes me who I am?

Traits, strengths, skills, talents

What do I feel passionate about?

What do I need to learn?

Improvements on self

Areas I struggle with

Write down beliefs

Write down dreams

You are told to lose weight and exercise combine that with eating right 

and all your problems will what? OK, so if you lose weight your blood 

pressure may go down. Wish it was that easy. Exercising can be a real 

laugh. I started to walk yesterday and the mosquitoes swarmed, so

I tried to get back in the house without letting too many in. I do good 

about eating as long as no one else is around to tempt me, I don’t smell 

bread cooking or the neighbor doesn’t bring in my favorite coconut pie. 

OK so that is a lot of temptation I give in to, I admit. 

So that leaves me struggling to lose weight. I am not much on taking diet pills so what is a gal to do?

How Well Do You Take Care of YOU?

How well do you take care of yourself?

Do you take a retreat every year- 3 days or more, to spend time reflecting and getting your life back in focus?

Do you have a day or an afternoon every month to catch up on things?

Does Sunday find you resting?

Each day, do you find time to spend with the Lord in prayer and study?

Does Sunday find you resting?

You haven’t met your spiritual and emotional needs. Do you neglect

your physical needs as well?

Do you schedule annual physicals, mammograms, bone density, glucose testing etc?

Do you exercise 3- 5 times a week?

Is your blood pressure under control and weight within a normal range?

What about daily needs? Do you take care of them? Food? Water? Medications? Family Relations?

Do you let your family and friends know how much they mean to you: phone, visit, e-mail, small

gifts, prayers for their needs

Peace

Romans 5: 1 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 33: 17 The work of righteousness will be peace

Genesis 34: And these men are at peace with us. 

How easily the term is banded about. 

Dinah’s brothers use the term to get the Hivite to lower their guard. 

Have you ever told anyone go in peace or may peace follow you? 

Jesus greeted His disciples offering peace. Just as the angles told the shepherds

 Peace on earth at Jesus birth. 

May you find peace in your life and not have it taken from you. 

Revelation 6: 4

Names

Names

The recent TS Cindy reminded me of when we evacuated for Hurricane Rita which hit western Louisiana a month after Katrina hit the east side of the state. Dutifully, we headed north right up Hwy 171. In Des Moines, Iowa we stopped for the night. The clerk asked my name, I told her she said, “is that with one or two ‘r’s?” I was not use to the question but soon discovered it made a difference in what part of the country we happened to be whether my name was spelled with one or two r’s/                                                                                                       
Strange but my father always spelled my name with two. He also spelled my sister’s name with ‘ie.” The rest of the world spelled it Betty but Dad said ‘y’ was for a boy and ‘ie’ for a girl. Spelling do make a difference. I misspelled my daughter’s name on her birth certificate; I put an extra ‘I.’ She’s stuck with it.                                                                                                               
I think about boys who have ‘junior’ tacked on the end to distinguish them from their peers. My younger brother added a Roman numeral I after his name. He intended to be an ancestor not a descendant. Little did he realize that he was descended from a long line of men with his name, (Steve).                                                                                                                                                
In the Bible, when Elizabeth gave birth to her son, the people wanted to name him after his father. Because of his doubt, Zacharias could not speak, he wrote the name John and was given back his voice. A name can be a powerful thing. (Not to be confused with the apostle John.)                                                                                                                                                                 
Homesick, people placed ‘New’ in front of their past to indicate a start somewhere different. I am so glad to clear up the confusion of the spelling of my name now if I could just get the pronunciation of ‘Shaw’ down where this would not be an issue.

Change

Nothing will change unless you make it change.

Be flexible.

Put yourself in their shoes.

Pain motivates.

What do you want?

What do you think is the best way to get there?

What is holding you back?

What do you need to achieve your goal?

Must take action to move forward.

Standing still will bury you.

Doing the same old thing over and over creates a rut.

http://twjmag.com/fiction-nonfic-poetry/letting-go

I am always amazed that God wants me to be still and listen. In the growing dusk, 

I recline and let the darkness descends around me. 

I try to keep my mind from racing but these images keep crowding in

When you have a weakness do you build it up or concentrate only on your strengths?  

Often you are told to build on your strengths and surround oneself with someone 

who can shore up the weakness.

     I love learning so I tackle each new area with a veracious appetite. 

Frustration sets in when the concepts do not come.

Organize Your Day

Organize your day:

Daily make time for :

1. God

2. Devotional time

3 Prayer time

4. Exercise

5. Something creative

6. Quiet time

Once a week, make time for"

1. Yourself

2. Family

3. Friends

4. Take the afternoon off

5.Catch up on sleep

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