Day 352 ~ "God" "Heal"

What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

What have I learned about myself this past year {blogging}..?  hmmmm... First off... I would like to make sure you know up front... I never had blogged before until I started this blog 349 days ago.  Secondly... I never intended on learning anything.  HAHA! LOL!  No but seriously... It wasn't my intention...   Check out what my intention(s) were/are here.

So here goes... What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

"G" is for...  God.   

This last year has been one lasting experience for me.  Through blogging I have learned so much... about myself... and about life.  

With that said... I have also learned that I need to lean on my Lord a bit more.  With the {continued} growth of my faith in God, I have realized that God has in deed seen me through some tough times.

I also have realized that if I would have leaned on Him a bit more {than what I did} that things may have not been as tough.

How do I know this?  Because in the last year I have learned to let go {quite} a bit and let Him take over... and ... He has.

He has because I feel that much closer to Him.-

"H" is for...  Heal{ing}.  

I don't know what I thought I would get out of this year of blogging... actually I never once looked for self gratification.  

Remember this is meant for my children, to let them into "my world"... to know who I am and what is in my heart.  Secondly, for family and friends... and most importantly, in hopes that I could somehow help another woman than may find herself in similar situations as I did.

Therefore the fact that I post before you that I so feel that I have let go of a lot of issues... I have forgiven... I have stood up stronger... and have come out of this lighter.

I feel like a tremendous amount of weight has been lifted off of my shoulders... seriously.  

Now... I still have a tough day here and there... but instead of completely feeling a sense of defeat... I now feel like I stumbled and I need to get up and brush my knees off.

I know it sounds simple... and I am not pretending that it to be so... Quite frankly it is a lot of work.  But well worth it.

Plus I have a five year old li'l girl who depends on me to provide her with my best.  {and} I am here to do my best to provide her with the proper tools to help her survive this crazy world. 

30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place." 32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

~Deuteronomy 1:30-33 

Tomorrow...  What I Learned About Me... from A to Z ... the letter(s) "I".

(here's to you finding your...)

 Peace,  

13 days to go...  {really?!}  

read about this count down in my "About my Blog" page

... for a, l & c.  You are my sunshine(s).  

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Day 306 ~ "H" is for Happy

Moving right along... not skipping a step... I have to start off by saying that I am really enjoying this A to Z Challenge.  

I think, and I believe I may have already said this before, more or less the challenge here is to blog every day.  Not to brag, but I'm already doing that.  On top of that there's a basic theme... choosing a subject each day corresponding to the letter of the alphabet for that day.  

Okay so maybe that's where the challenge is for me, that and not to read other's blogs until I have written mine.  I admit it... and it has been determined, that in it self has been challenging.  Only because of my normal routine... 

I like to start my day on a positive note, so I read and blog hop in the morning... then, as a matter of cleansing (although I have never looked at it this way) the negative parts of the day, I finish off my day by blogging [my experiences of the day] at night.  Ending my day on a positive note.

So there poses my challenge.  Maybe I need to get a day ahead?  Hmmmm... almost sounds like another challenge!

My "H" word seems to have crept in under radar.  You see, I somehow kept thinking of one of my favorite quotes, which my father-in-law uses as his "mantra" (he even makes it a point to drill it into my husband and his brother's heads.) ...  which by the way, I'm forever indebted to him for.

A  happy wife is a  happy life!  ~ Gavin Rossdale

Happy.  (my "H" word.)

I think we can possibly agree that happiness is like art, subjective.  Because what makes me happy (eating a bowl of spicy tuna for lunch) can just very well gross you out!  lol!  Who could not love spicy tuna for lunch?!  Get my drift?

Am I happy?  

Let me see... I am married to my best friend, who by the way may miss the hamper once in a while, but comes home to me and Calley everyday!  I have two sons (24, 21,) who are coming out into their own... and a beautiful little girl, Calley (5)-  who on a daily basis reminds me what love and  happiness is all about.  That's all that matters.  Everything else is replaceable. 

Yes, I am happy.  I could probably tweek a couple of things (working on it) here and there... but other than that... I would not change a thing!

Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy St. Patrick's Day, Happy Easter, Happy Mother's Day, Happy Memorial Day, Happy Father's Day, Happy 4th of July, Happy Labor Day, Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Christmas (England), Happy Hannukkah, Happy Friday, Happy Monday (okay, I'm pushing it now- lol), Happy Place ... and the best one yet... Happy Hour!  

Blogging A to Z Challenge April 2012... What will "I" have for us tomorrow?

Blessings to all!!

59 days to go...

... for a, l & c.  You are my sunshine(s).  

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