Clean out those buckets

Where do you get your inspiration from?  I thought of this yesterday as I spoke with an office co-worker.  She was having a day of the blues and instantly without even thinking  I began to encourage her with words that were not of my own.  I know this because I am always at a loss for words.  But I have one thing that I am proud of. I have a heart that is bigger than my brain.  I have found that if someone is hurting I also hurt with them.  And from the moment I see someone in pain my only goal is to find a way to reach down and lift them up out of misery. Do I always achieve my goal.  Of course not.  It would be silly of me to think that I have a magic wand that I can just wave and make everything ok again.  But rather I hit the mark or miss it by a long shot I know that the person in need leaves the table feeling better than they did when they arrived.  Some times I think we need to crawl through the mud and get a little dirty before we can look back and see that a little dirt never hurt anyone.  No one likes to be sad or feel pain.  But I think that if we can’t climb the mountains we can’t appreciate the view from the top.  I have always said that you can’t have a testimony until we first have a test.  So that makes me think why then do we have to be put through the tests of life.  I know that God will not put any more on us than we can handle.  Very often I remind God of this when I feel like my bucket is full and running over, as if God does not know what is in there already.  And maybe my testimony is an essential key to someone else who’s bucket already over flowed and needs to know that there is a way to get through it.  Hey my bucket already broke but God sent me an even bigger bucket and he will do the same for you.  I think we often forget that we are all in this together, we all are dealing with the same problems.  No one is exempt from problems but isn’t it great to know that he sent his son to pay a debt that he didn’t owe for a debt we could never pay.  I don’t know about you, but just that alone makes me feel like all that junk I’m carrying around in my bucket isn’t that big a deal.  Lets all look through our buckets today because I’m most sure we are holding on to stuff that we can just toss out. 

 

Blessings till I post again.

Happy Saturday

I’m sitting here this morning with a cup of my favorite crème brulee coffee as my oldest cat is settling in for her nap. It’s a morning ritual that you can set a clock by.  My alarm goes off at 4am (yes even on the weekends) and I get up only to be greeted by our youngest cat who has only been awake for seconds, but that does not stop the warm reception that you receive.  She is always so happy to see you and she lets you know it too.  After I finally get settled in to my office chair Olivia takes her cue to finally go to bed and Ginger is ready to find out just how many adventures she can have, how many new games she can come up with.  Ginger has only been with us about a year and a half but this cat is always coming up with new games.  It’s funny how they both have such different personalities.  We call Olivia and old prude and let me tell you, it fits her well.  The only time Olivia will be lovey dovey is when she wants something from you, other than that you are pretty much in her way and not to be dealt with.  Ginger on the other hand Loves attention and just lives to make you smile.  Most days I like to think I am having a Ginger day, but lets be real here, we all know that we can have Olivia days too.  I try to be in a great mood 100% of the time, and I know that bar is set pretty high, but I have to give Thanks to God, because I have a very good track record for hitting that bar 90% of the time. 

 

This is the part of the day where I would be looking at weather.com to see how cold it’s gonna get today, but looking at my atomic clock its 72.2 in my office and 2.9 outside, I think I’m just gonna sip some more coffee, be thankful I am warm and motivate myself to get on with my day.

 

Blessings till I post again.

My first Blog of 2011 HAPPY NEW YEAR

With each new year people begin to make new year resolutions and according to the internet only 12% of resolutions are kept/met and here are some interesting facts from one website I visited.

Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they set small, measurable goals (lose a pound a week, rather than a vague "lose weight"). Women succeeded 10% more often when they made their goals public and enlisted help from friends.

 

Here are the top 5 New Years resolutions I found on the internet.  Most seem to be the same from year to year.

5. Be a Yes man (Based on some movie I have not seen)

4. Break the Habit

3. Spend more time with loved ones

2. Tame the bulge

1. Go Back to School.

 

Number one did surprise me, not that I am surprised that people want to go back to school, just that it was the number one resolution.  I have to think that this study was a bit skewed because at the end of the article there was a bunch of information and prices for going back to school. But I have to think that numbers 2 – 4 are very accurate because of all the websites I visited they were always on the list and mostly in the top 5. 

Here are the top 5 Children New Year resolutions.

5. Have Fun

4. Work Hard

3. Reach your Dream

2. Give Back

1. Appreciate Today

I am not sure if children really complied this list or not, but if so I think we can really learn a lot from them.  Instead of setting goals aimed mostly at ourselves they set goals that should be in our top 5 things to do not in a year but daily.  I really like number one Appreciate today.  I think I achieve that 90% of the time.  I am very positive and tend to see the glass as running over for most parts and this does tend to drive most people around me crazy because true there isn’t always gold at the end of that rainbow but that does not stop me from pointing out the good in the bad.  But yes like every body else in this crazy world I do have my days where that gold can be on both ends of the rainbow and I would not give a hoot.  But thank God those days are very FEW and FAAAAAAR Between.  Any day that I can get out of bed and kiss my beautiful wife and tell her I love her is the best day of my life.  No matter how good or bad things go I can always be grateful that the lord sent me the best gift that I have and will ever have.  The love and patient of my wife.  I’ve said it before and so I’ll say it again.  Life is good  (NAAA GREAT!!!!!)

Blessings till I post again.