Hello world!
My life is like this picture. I swim and people watch. Oh, there are those who swim with me. We have a good time. Life is good!!! It is meant to be enjoyed.
Then there are many who watch. See my husband and I pastor a small rural church. People look to see if we are walking the talk. Is it real??
I have a heart for being real in a world where so many people are trying to be someone that they aren’t.
I love God and am trying to love others. This, I find is not always an easy thing.
My life is an open book. I have good days and I have bad days. Life happens. The difference is that in my bad days God is still very much with me and that makes all the difference. Over and over He has turned rotten things into beauty. He has met our needs in amazing ways. There is nothing like the peace that comes from God when you are facing daunting circumstances. You cannot make that kind of thing up no matter how hard one tries.
Welcome to my blog. You will find that I ramble about many different things but in all of them God is ever present. I can’t help but bring Him into most things because He has shaped my life into what it is today.
I’d love to read your thoughts on any of my blogs. Just keep it clean.
til next time
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Welcome to my fish bowl!
Things that matter to me are: God, family, friends, helping people, taking time to really live in the moment, and trying to slow down in a fast paced world.
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Ok, I read it. I love the fishbowl title. Oh so true sometimes how everyone can sit and watch us swim through our lives waiting for us to swim the wrong way and run fishlips first into the side of the glass bowl. Keep going, I like it! I like it! One of these days I may jump into the world of blog so my innerthoughts can be displayed for the world to see. I’m not sure that the world could handle such thoughts. HaHa.
Hello, Gloria. Just wanted to send a quick Congratulations! before going to bed. Will be praying for you as you continue your blog and help get Pastor’s going. Take care.
I found you, I liked what you wrote. Now if I can figure this thing out I’ll try it myself.
Hey Tonya, do you know anyone who would do “fishlips” on a window?? ROFL
Thanks “Just me” for all the prayers. Got his up and running a whole lot faster than mine.
Joann – I know you would love this, lets get together and I can walk you through it 🙂
congrads. i can never think of what i would want to write. i use to know a pastors wife who had a fishbowl on her kitchen sink, just for this purpose.keep going and i will read it.
I’m surprised that one who despairs of fish-bowl life has opened the shades on a new window! I’m sure we’ll all do our best to toss in a few flakes now and again for you 🙂 Happy swimming!
Sue,
You know me, usually not at a loss for words. 🙂
It is kind of ironic isn’t it. Maybe it is a midlife crisis??? probably not 🙂 Thanks for any flakes you want to throw my way.
Remember, it’s not just the journey, but who is with you on that journey. Sound familiar?
Oh wow. I just read your bio and now I know why I stumbled onto your blog. (No coincidences right?)
My husband too use to pastor a small church and no exactly what the fish bowl is. I can’t imagine what a larger one is like. I use to try to be thankful for a smaller body of a hundred or so, compared to a thousand, but I wonder is a smaller one is even harder. Gossip travels through from one end to the other much quicker, and every single word seems to get back to you too. And then, because there is less to choose from, a true friend really is slim pickin’s. Out of the whole body, I came out of it with two. Yes, I do sound as if I came out a survivor! haha I made mistakes, and faced challenges I was surprised with. Obedience to the Lord doesn’t always win friends does it? Salt can be an irritant or add flavor. I wish I could choose which purpose I was used for, but where would my testings and character building come from then?
Nice to meet you Gloria. 🙂
Nice to meet you Roe. I am headed to your blog after I leave this comment.
It used to amaze me that people wouldn’t get it that the negative things they say get back to the pastor and his wife. The enemy loves to see to this. Now it just saddens me.
Testing and character building — such wonderful things but difficult at the time.
Stumbled on to this. I love it!!! I look forward to reading your blogs. You sound like someone I can very much relate to! : ) Here’s to keepin’ it real!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
Thanks for stopping by Kay Kay. Life is an adventure better kept real!! I am so not into pretending. 🙂
PLEASE FORGIVE THE CAPS (I’M VISION CHALLENGED). I RAN ACROSS YOUR BLOG TODAY BECAUSE OF A DREAM AND A WORD I BELIEVE GOD GAVE ME THIS MORNING. HE SAID BE PREPARED TO LIVE IN A FISH BOWL . THIS IS THE SECOND WORD THAT WAS GIVEN THE FIRST ONE HE SAID TO DREAM BIGGER. NOW I’M UNCLEAR STILL WAS TO WHAT HE MEANS AS I’M A SINGLE MIDDLE AGED ,DISABLED WOMAN WITH AN ADULT DAUGHTER WITH AUTISM. MY ONLY GUESS IS THAT SOMEWHERE THERE IS A MAN PRAYING FOR LOVE AND PATIENCE AT THE SAME TIME. =) AT ANY RATE GOD’S WILL BE DONE . I BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS LEAD ME TO YOUR BLOG . I’VE BEEN ( AND BLESSED) STILL AN A CHRISTIAN . BLESSED ,CHERISHED ,CHALLENGING 45 YEARS SERVING GOD AND OTHERS. STILL LONGING FOR MORE . THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE GOD HAS SHOWN YOU . GOD IS SO GREAT THAT THERE IS ALWAYS SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN . WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO HAVE A FULL BLESSED ,CHALLENGING LIFE WITH THE LORD . MAKES MY HEART SMILE.
Thanks for responding! Praying for you and your daughter. Our God is greater! He is for us, with us and able to do more than we can imagine.