Amelia Earhart

"The most difficult thing is the
decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity
The fears are paper tigers
you can do anything you decide to do
you can act to change and control life
and the procedure, the process is it's own
reward"

Excused

I served my jury duty and
the lord answered my prayers
I was with a lucky bunch and
after waiting all day long
we were excused!!!

did not even get called into the court room
I did learn a lot from two women who sat next to me
there were about 100 of us and we were told to be there
before 10:00 am. no one looked like they really wanted to
be there.
upon entering many of us brought bottled water because
it said beverages in plastic bottles were allowed what it failed
to say is that the seal must not be broken on the plastic beverage
bottle! so just like the airlines they dump open bottles into the trash!
scan your handbags and cell phones must be off.

where you check into the waiting room they scan your
summons and you sit and wait. we waited for an hour and half
and then were told we had to return at 1:30. we all learned lesson
brought back a unopened bottle of water!!!

we all returned and waited another hour then 50 names were
called they left then we got the good news we were EXCUSED!!
and had to form a line to get a paper for work.
what I learned watching and talking to these two ladies
was everyone that was there did not want to be there!
had to miss a day of work, some of them were just down right
mad about doing their civic duty!
and one lady next to me kept pointing this out.
it is our civic duty yet if you don't show they fine you up to $1,500.00
and arrest you. it is your civic duty yet they confiscate your bottled beverage
and so on!
I hope that once in the court room the judge finally excused her.
the other interesting thing I learned is that they use your driver's license
to summon you for jury duty because selecting the old way through your voting
well people stopped voting for that reason.

regardless of it all it was an interesting day of observation
and I am thankful for all that kept me in their thoughts and prayers

living

Living requires us to step off the edge of the world each day
daring to greet the sun , life is a leap of faith!

I love to collect many things but one of my favorites is
to write down sayings, quotes, etc. I have many books
with such things that I add to daily and sometimes read
over and over.

I feel eternally grateful to step off the edge and greet the sun
and take that beautiful leap of faith that the Lord gives us
everyday no matter what it may bring. For if I don't then I
know I would not be living!!!

Jury Duty

I have been called for Jury Duty
I have been called once in my life but
got excused and that was many years ago!
I have never done this before!

they finally caught up with me I suppose
I am not sure how I feel about it I have mixed
emotions. I am nervous about it for what if it
is a case where a child or woman got hurt ( yes I know that
can happen to a man) but I am an emotional person I tear up
at the drop of a hat !( sad movies, T.V. songs ) I will do my best
I guess, there is also the chance that they won't even need me and
I will be excused! ( I am saying my prayers)

well just keep me in your thoughts!

on the road again

well since my holiday break is
officially over today ( the two weeks went
by slow & fast at the same time) I am preparing
to get back on the road I commute to my job
which is about 40 mi from my home
it's not a bad commute. my gal used to go with me
I would drop her off at school then pick her up
so I had someone with me well tomorrow that is going to
change for both of us she will be starting her new thing
at the public school ( she is scared ) and I will be commuting
by my lonesome ( ok I will be listening to the radio)
so I won't be quite a lone. I would not do this If I did not
love my job so much!

I did enjoy my break but there are things that I also
wanted to do that I ran out of time to do them. well I
get a week off in march so maybe then.

until then it's off to work I go
everyone have a safe return to work and where ever
you have to drive to.

calamity Jane

Since it was raining and pouring and
my old man was definitely snoring!
and when the weather is like this
I like to stay in and bake and watch old movies
so today I decided that is what I would do
I made my mother's sweet bread and then I
had some left over choc kisses so I made my son
his favorite peanut blossoms because I had made
my daughter her favorite Oreo truffles.

getting back to the movie I chose for my first movie
one of my all time favorites ( and I have plenty in fact
my list seems to grow!) Calamity Jane. I remember this
movie from my childhood and I still laugh and sing along
with the songs. Doris Day happens to be one of my favorites and
this particular movie is my favorite of hers.

I love all kinds of movies ( OK I don't like scary horror movies)
I like love stories, mysteries, musicals, comedies, drama. Disney movies

the bread and cookies came out fine, the movie was fun
and then I listened to the pouring rain it does at times
make a beautiful sound. I thought I would
get away from not going out in it but wouldn't you know
I had to pick my gal up from a birthday party!

well that's a mom for you.

SEND FORTH

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me,
let them bring me to your holy mountain to the place where
you dwell.
psalm 43:3


I felt this appropriate as my daughter made the decision
to leave her Christian school and return to the public high school
why did she decide this? well, she said for the past few months she
has been feeling a calling in her heart from the Lord that she needed to evangelise
to teenagers her age, she felt that she could not make a difference
at her Christian school because her fellow students get it and she
wants to make a difference so she put her trust in the Lord and
asked for his Guidance and over the holiday break the good Lord
gave her the answer. she is answering his calling and returning
this semester(actually this Monday) back to the public high school and hoping to make a difference even if only in one students life.

I am so proud of her for many reasons, she worked hard to get into the
Christian school she was attending, it is 40 miles from where we live and we made the
sacrifice, and she made some good friends there. I know that this decision
was not made lightly but my gal never does anything with out seeing it through
granted she has friends here at the public high school and hopefully she will have a few
classes or lunch with some of them. but she is going back to a big campus

for the past year she has been used to small classes and even having a religion
class everyday, now she will be in bigger classes, crowded and not having religion
class on a daily basis, though she is nervous she is determined to answer the lord's calling
and see this through like she told me " she has to give it a try cause she does not want to
go through her life wondering what if" she also told me God has "her back" and if she is meant to return to another Christian school he will help her get there again.

I am in awe because she is so mature at her age when I was 15 I was not strong in my
convictions of faith the way she is. so watching my gal grow with this is just so breath taking
sometimes I cannot even express I just get all teary eyed with pride.

please keep my gal in your prayers while she makes this transition and
that she will make a difference in someone's life by teaching them to trust & believe in the Lord.