Another brick on the yellow brick road?

Hmmm... Interesting... More wait and see, but it looks like there may be a little progress in the yellow brick road. Wait and see, wait and see...

Biting the elephant

I have been thinking about elephants today. I’m just starting to write another book. The early stages seem to creep by as itty bitty word by itty bitty word, I gain a smidge more momentum. But it’s crawling by. It’s at times like this I remember the riddle: “How do you eat an entire elephant? One bite at a time.”

Ain’t it the truth!!!! Sigh, in life it seems like there are so many things, which upon appearance, seem hopeless and intimidating. But, by taking the next step, doing “the next thing,” as the comedian, the late George Carlin used to say, it does become possible and achieved. So, look at the pink elephant in your room; what’s the obvious, so called impossible obstacle for you? Can you take that next bite, that first bite of it? It is possible; it is!

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’”

Matthew 19:26

You’re in this by yourself, God’s there, right there, with you. So, take that bite! You will get there!

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”

Romans 8:31

Never limit from where inspiration comes

Tee hee... God has a great sense of humor, inspiring me via our critter, Gracie. Sometimes, an explanation can be this simple and furry.

Ch-h-h-anges...

Want proof that life changes us through process, as we move along in life? Read what you wrote as a kid: diaries, essays, book reports. It's hilarious and affirming!!! Thank God we are all beyond where we once were, huh? The insight of a nine year old version of myself, in particular, challenges me not to laugh and point at myself.

Kids say the "darndest" things, right?

We may not be where we should or could be, according to our own minds, but thank God, we're not where we used to be!

Plus, our handwriting is also better.

Someday, we'll look back on our nows with nostalgia and wisdom as well.

So, I guess, keep David Bowie's "Changes" in mind...

Keep taking the next step!

Blah, blah, blah- Blech?

Bueller?

Bueller?

Bueller? Hope I don't sound like this...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXPJNJdSPE

Cute, Unassuming Fluffy Bunny

Just who do you think you are?

Ever heard that? I have, usually it’s that accusing statement from inside my own head (ah, yes, I’m my best worst enemy). In life, being pegged, labeled and boxed in seems to be the order of the day. We all like nice neat little categories to shove people- and ourselves- into. But we’re more, so much more than that.

I love Monty Python’s “The Holy Grail”- and not just for the clippity clop use of coconut shell props to signify real horse galloping through the countryside. But I love it because, during the course of the film, there’s legendary talk about this big huge beast “with pointy teeth.” But when it’s revealed, initially, we see a cute, fluffy bunny, hopping along its merry way.

The knights in the story question and mock the severity of this supposedly fierce beast, feeling that they can handle the fluffy critter. But man, were they wrong! Did they EVER underestimate that sweet little bunny! They had a close encounter with the pointy teeth variety!

Never underestimate the “unassuming.”

You may feel that you have all the power of a fluffy bunny, that everyone discounts you because of your past, your eating disorders, your addictions, your failures.

Can I tell you something? They haven’t even begun to know JUST who they’re dealing with yet!

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.”

2 Corinthians 12:9

You are more magnificent, more powerful, more relevant that you even realize now!

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

Philippians 4:13

Because it’s God Who is in you, making it so! Don’t be intimidated or disqualified by your past, your failings and fallings! That’s exactly the stuff God’s using in you to make you shine with Who He is! Can you believe it?

You’re a fierce creature, even if you feel like a timid bunny right now. Be who you are- and always have been the entire time: more than a conqueror!!! Yes, you are not just a conqueror, but MORE than one, with God!!!

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

Romans 8:37

C’mon, show the world those pointy teeth of God’s Glory!

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... It's the journey...

Trying to remember that it's the journey and not all about the destination.

Like the Holy Greail film, I'd just love, occasionally, to skip some things.

But, alas, (alas?) I'm not an irreverant British comedy troupe (sigh).

So, yeah, yeah, yeah, the journey. Yeah, yeah, yeah...