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What a Day :)


Welp... Today Me and My Husband desided to take a day and play hookie from work since it has been sooo slow.. I was so excited... We went down to our property by the river, and spent the day... It was invigerating... I mowed, I weeded, I raked, I walked, I put fenses up,  cleaned up trash the wind blows around, picked up sticks....  I was Whooped yawnby 4pm... It was not a "No Work" day...But it was just the kind of day that I needed...

once I got back I got to think'n... I did not "Think" ALL Day... Just did what I knew had to be done... Did it, and moved on.. Why can't all my days just go so smooth... I almost forgot that there could be days like this...Sometimes I get so overwhelmed that I forget to take time to "just Do it " Yes I am whooped, but in reality, I feel better then I have in a really long time, Like I am ready to "Get'r Done"...lol...

My boy is gone for the week, and that pretty much has my stomach upset a good bit, but I know and trust God to bring him home to me safely.. it is only my own selfishness that misses him most... I know he is having fun, and is with his buddys... So I know my boy he will make the best of it...Me on the other hand, well I will just "Get over it" and let him enjoy it... I don't call him, because when I do, He panics, and thinks something is wrong, so I tell him.. "If you need ME call" that way, I am giving him a chance to miss me, and I dont get him worried.. It has worked and since he is with the school so that makes me feel better too..."Let'n Go & Trust'n God" :)

I guess today I am grateful for the second wind today, and tomorrow I volunteer all day at the schools book fair, so  I can't wait for that either... I love spending time with the kids, I love getting to know them, and I try once a week, to get there and that is "All" about me... That is ONE thing that I do once a Week... FOR ME!!! Love it...

It is nice to feel like you have "worth", and it isn't attached to the drama of your every day "Crap"... I have fought all my life to be something I didn't even know... I just bounced around till i fell into place somewere.. Kind of the story of my childhood really...I never knew which way I was headed, I just knew I had to get there..lol..

Growing up with an Afather, was not the worst misery, but it was bad enough, but I am learning that the more I stay in TODAY, the better off I do... That is something I was never good at, I had to know what was going to happen before hand, so I could "save" it if it went another way... "Like I really Saved anything" just drove myself crazy..My mom is soo like that and I know that is were I got it from... She lived with my father for 14 years, and was pregnant with my sister on her grad. day at high school... But she charged on... I respect that about her... And love her very much...

I think sometimes that we (Focus) so much on the pain that we miss what is right in front of us.. The birds singing, the trees swaying, the sound of the river, rain on a tin roof, Eagles soaring, fish jumping, all the "EVERYDAY" miracles, that we just pass by because we have to "Hurry Up" and "Get'r Done"... I like the "Pokie" me... I still get it done, I just enjoy a little more of what God has givin me... I wish you all the happiness that I found in my day today...

No it didn't change my life, but it empacked me enough to want to start paying better attention to me, and let attention to Abrothers court dates, Sisters drinking, other sister working, other brother staying out of trouble, and all the craziness that seem to locate me on a daily basis... I am Letting It Go today... Letting it ALL Go, and can't wait to see what the HP has instore for me next... I hope its Good & Slow :)

Thanks for letting me Share...
Hope it all makes sense:)
Jozie...



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It makes perfect sense !!!!
Very refreshing, thanks for sharing this.
Sincerely,
Tonya

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Hi Jozie,

What a wonderful share!!! No it did not change your life (YET) but the more you use the simple otlls you expressed today one day at a time Your life will change

A part of an old Sanskrit Poems states it like this:

Yesterday is but a dream
Tomorrow only a vision
BUT
 Today, Well Lived
 Makes every Yesterday a dream of Happiness and
Every tomorrow a vision of Hope
Look Well to This Day.

You are a living example of that
Thank you



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I think sometimes that we (Focus) so much on the pain that we miss what is right in front of us..

Very true.
Let alone allowing those "things" to define who we are.

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