150 Pounds by July 2016

I've made a decision to lose 50 pounds by next summer.  I know with God's help I can lose 10 pounds a month.  It is a good thing no one reads this because it is now going to be my diary of weight loss.  I've tried for years to lose weight and keep it off.  But after I lose 10-20 pounds I put it back on and more.  This time I am going to lose it and keep it off.  I've been asked to be a matron of honor for a friend's wedding. Remember the saying "always a brides maid never a bride" well I was a bride but never a brides maid.  This will be my first time, August 13, 2016. I have no idea what to do as a matron of honor at a wedding.  I think, but am not sure that it is the matron's duty to organize a bridal party.  Yes?  I don't know and how do you go about doing that anyway?  Oh yea the matron of honor gives the toast to the bride or is it the groom? I don't know.

I'm starting this weight loss journal at 200 pounds on Oct 30 2015.  What will it be the next time I make an entry?
I'm going to the gym 3 times a week and am going to do it seriously. Not just go and play at it.  I'm going to get in touch with a friend who was my coach a number of years ago and ask him what to do.

Once a week I'm going to weigh myself and enter the weight here and what ever goes along with it.

Back from a 10 day holiday

It is nice to go away but it is also nice to be home.  I spent Thanksgiving with my niece and her friend in Shelley, a community on highway 16 east of Prince George.  I went up on Thursday Oct 8 and came back on the 18.  I was only going to stay until the Wednesday but got talked into staying until the Sunday, to go dancing on Saturday night at the seniors centre in Prince George.  Had a nice time and danced with a couple of nice guys.
I had a nice time and an uneventful drive.  I like driving by myself sometimes.  A few idiots tried to wipe me out but with God as my pilot and I the co-pilot we made good time and no trouble.
Nice to be home and go to church for the class last night and see my chiropractor a couple of times this week.

Thanksgiving

One year someone asked what do we have to be thankful for.  A wonderful lady sitting beside me holding my hand said friends.  We all agreed with her.  I gave her hand a squeeze and a big smile.  There were times when I didn't know if she was there mentally or not as she had dementia.  When my lovely lady was with me I knew I was loved and loved her in return.  I miss you Gloria!
This year I'm thankful for memories, friends, family and the ability to travel up north to Prince George to spend Thanksgiving with my nieces.
Chicken Soup is going the be requesting stories for being thankful for being Americans or Canadian. That is one story I think I can write.  I am thankful for being a Canadian because.... Wait until I write it.
Have a great Thanksgiving and be thankful for what ever you have to be thankful for.

I don't know

Hehe, that is a new one for a title of a posting. I just don't have anything to write about. Days are going on as usual.  Our border is still here and my blood pressure doesn't like it. I was at my acupuncturist a few days ago and scared Sandy and myself and also Dr. Dan her husband and my chiropractor. They weren't going to let me go if it didn't go down.  Dr. Dan gave me a blood pressure treatment and it did go down so I drove home and made an appointment with my GP and she prescribed a new med that should bring down my B.P. I took the first one this morning and it is coming down very nicely.
Oh by the way did you know that your B.P. was different on each arm?  Well it is.  I found that out when Dr. Dan's assistant took it on both arms at the same time. My left arm said over 200/something and the right was  196/ over something. I know the distolic is as important as the systolic.

Sept more than half over

I know it has been a long time since I wrote. Didn't have anything to say except complaining about my situation.  Now I have got over feeling sorry for myself and am going to live my live in God.  He is my constant companion I an never alone.
There is a hymn that we sang yesterday that has stuck in my mind.
God and I are one, x2
God is Life therefore I am living, I let the life of God flow through me. I am Life
God is Love therefor I am loving, ....
God is Faith therefor I am faithful, ....
God is Peace therefor I am peaceful, ...
God is Joy therefor I am joyfull, ...
That now is my mantra. That way I am always full of God in all I do.
My life is how I make it. I can live ego, fear, distress or I can live in God and be happy and joy filled.
I choose to live in joy and happiness.  I choose Me.
 

It's been a while I know

Didn't have anything to write about so didn't.  Now I need my chiropractor and he is off for the day. I bend down to put something in the recycling pail and as I came up I twisted my rib cage and now it is out of kilter.  Ouch it hurts.  Can't even lift my water bottle.
My live is on a downward, no upward spiral.  I'm either going to be on my own before the end of the year or Ken and I will be much happier than we are right now.

New life?

I believe in turning everything over to God and in doing that I gain a new life.  My problems are gone, my worry about having my own home again is gone. I only have God in my life as my wholeness.  I am living in God life. He will give me freedom, peace, love and joy.  I am blessed and loved and loving.

World day of Prayer

Silent Unity every year has a day where all around the world 24 hours a day. This year World Day of Prayer is September 10 and if you need a prayer for your self or a friend go to www.silentunity.org
Silent Unity has help me many times in answering prayer requests. They are there 24 hours a day 365 days a year.  A life line to answered prayer to anyone in the world.  The main website is www.unity.org
I personally am a member of Unity In Action in New Westminster B.C on Edinburgh Street and 17th Street.  If you live in the lower mainland between Surrey and Vancouver come and visit.  We have a prayer circle Thursday nights at 6PM and everyone is welcome.  Our Sunday service is at 11AM and the doors are open to anyone who needs fellowship with like minded people. I needed to write this today as I need all the prayers I can get right now for the next few days.
Thank anyone who reads this for a prayer for health, abundance in my life and calmness in my life.

In a pickle.

Well it helps to have someone else here to talk to our house guest.  My partner isn't telling me the truth nor is the house guest.  My partner is telling me that our house guest needs time to get over being homeless possibly up to six months.
Our house guest told the over person staying and taking a course for a week that he is here to help his friend and doesn't like the way my partner is treating me.  He would like to have a place of his own but has to stay here to help his friend.
I'm wanting him out and was blaming him for having no privacy.  Seems I don't know anything that is going on in my own home. Now I'm really in a pickle, our guest house guest would willingly go if I asked him, maybe.  My partner would blame me if his friend was to leave.  Maybe I should ask both to go. When the other person leaves I will find out where I stand. One week of confusion.

A new life?

My live just may be getting better or go back to just being a couple.  Haven't written about what has been happening in my life this past 3 weeks but it has been a living hell.  I have been putting up with a friend of my partner since the 6 of August.  I understood we had agreed he could stay until my niece came yesterday but I overheard him tell someone on the phone a few days ago that he would be staying at his friends four to six months, that would be Christmas or beyond.  I don't think so.
Tonight I'm going to have my say and give the ultimatum of  Sept 15th that the friend be gone and if my partner does not stand beside me and agree with me, he will be gone as well on Sept 15.  I don't really want that but my health and my life is worth peace of mind which I haven't had lately.
I don't know how this evening is going to  go but one way or another I will have my way.

Much better

Still don't know if anyone is reading my blogs but here goes again.
I'm feeling a whole lot better now that I stopped that new medication.  I did have almost every side effect known to that drug.
My niece got married Saturday and I felt as if I was there all day.  I know one of her brothers didn't go but don't know about the younger brother.  I phoned him Friday night but got no response to the question.  I know her nephew from Ottawa went because I just talked to him on the phone from Van airport on his way home.  He had a layover of a couple of hours before the flight home.
I know this isn't all that interesting if anyone is reading this and I promised myself I wouldn't do this so I'm done for today.
If I was still in that working writers challenge I would be writing a how to list. How to what that is the question? How to write a blog when there isn't anything to say.  Don't write anything hehe.Okay I  quit for today and am going to work on my manuscript I'm hoping to have finished in a little over a month.  Good thing I'm almost finished it, the draft that is or the first go round.

Tired, listless sore and have no energy

Oh boy when you take medication that you have all the side effects of you can feel like well you know. I've stopped taking them and still the effect hasn't gone away yet, but I did just quit, and had a little build up of the drug.  I like chiropractic and acupuncture better than gps.  It may sound like I'm against general practitioners but I'm really not, it is just that they decide to change what works for what may not work or make things difficult and painful. Quit gypping Gladys, just stop taking the pills that are making things worse for you.  Okay that is what I have done.

One thing I am happy about is the visiting cat was let out of his locked room after 4 days and got out one of the cat doors and went exploring the neighborhood. I'm sure he will come back after he has explored around and gets hungry.
Oh-oh unless he decides to go back to his old home which is a thought that just hit me but that is a long way and over a bridge.  I hope that thought is wrong and I pray it is wrong. Hope no one else thinks of that. Remember Lassie Come Home? Well it could be Oreo tries to go home but he would never make it.

Sunday August 9

If the man I married in 1969, was still alive it would be our 45 anniversary today.  But he died months before our 25 anniversary.  If he had lived I wouldn't have met the man I am with today.  He cares for me and we have been together longer than anyone expected, 18 years, actually longer than I expected too but it is a give and take relationship.  We may not be as happy together as we were when we met and weren't sure if this was what we wanted so we decided to spend a Christmas week together and I was going home January 2, well I didn't come home. The next February the Unity In Action minister did a partnership service for us.  Our friends took us out for lunch after the service. I think our honeymoon was when his sister asked us if we would like to come to the Dominican Republic to bring in the New Millennium and also celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.  We said yes of course so we went and had a marvelous time at a resort where the family had the whole resort to themselves for a week then a French couple came and joined us for the New Millennium some time around midnight. We weren't sure of the time as we were on the beach with fireworks.  We waited until we saw other fireworks down the beach.
It was also my first time on a motorcycle, it was rented, and Ken dumped me in the sand and water as it had rained the night before. Well he told me "Do not put your feet down no matter what, so I didn't and when he tried to skirt the puddle the back wheel skidded and down we went. Or I went down he just stepped off the bike and stood laughing at me.  Until he realized I may have been hurt.  We both got back on the bike and rode back to the resort. I think we all hoped that Y2K was going to happen but ofcourse it didn't so we had to come home on the 5th of January.

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What to write?

I've started a write a business challenge exercise with the Working Writers Club.  The first week is to write a one list article using a topic.  That is my dilemma, what to use as a topic for a list of something about it.  Lets see, maybe Unity Church, two that I have belonged to and the headquarters in Kansas City.  Now that would be something I do know something about.

My list would start with:

1. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore started the Unity Movement, a New Thought belief in the late 1889. Charles was born in August 1854 in St.Cloud,Minnesota and died in 1948.  He married Myrtle Page March 1881 They wrote many books on the power of God. Myrtle used her personal God power of to heal herself of tuberculous by prayer and meditation. She talked to each of her cells daily telling them they were healthy and full of the power of God.

2.  The headquarters is Unity Village, which is 15 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City Missouri, near  Lee's Summit. The village is beautiful, bountiful rose gardens, ten fountains that cover 14,090 square feet in the center of the court yard. There is a first class hotel for anyone to come and stay in the peace and quiet of one of the most beautiful villages I have ever been to.  There is bookstores, prayer chapels. Private walks through wooded areas.  A peace like you have never felt before will be yours before you leave this amazing prayerful village.
Google www.unity.org  to view anything you want to know about this most peaceful, prayerful place in the world as far as I'm concerned.

3. Unity Villages beautiful prayer 165 foot tower, Silent Unity is staffed 24 hours a day by members of Unity Village to pray with anyone from anywhere in the world.  Silent Unity can be reached by phone, e-mail silentunityprayers   The person on the other end of the phone will pray with you until the presence of God fills you with love, peace and takes away the worry, fear or what ever had been bothering you.

4. Charles and Myrtle also started the Daily Word magazine which was used by only a small group of people but the word got around and now in 2015 The Daily Word Magazine is used around the world as daily inspiration.  I first saw the Daily Word magazine on my mothers bedside table, in a care home, for a number of years.  I never asked her where she got it nor read it.  At that time I knew there was a God but didn't want to deal with religion as I knew it. I had also been told as a child that God has a very long memory and never forgives. That kind of God I didn't want in my life anymore I wanted a loving caring God I knew was somewhere.  I came to know exactly that. The love of God, Spirit, Light and Power. God is within everyone and will speak, feel and touch with love and peace.

5. Unity Churches are new thought that believe God is a non-gender Spirit of Light and Love and is Mother/Father/God.

6. Now that I have written about Unity Village I will start about Unity of Vancouver in B.C on the east side of Oak Street and about 40th Avenue or one block south of 41st Avenue.  Unity of Vancouver was the first Unity Church I had ever heard about or been in.  A friend asked me to go to church with her on a Christmas Eve some time in the late 80's. That was the most interesting Christmas Eve service I had every been to. I wanted to hear more.  But it was February of the next year that I finally asked my friend if I could go with her again. That was where I found the Daily Word.  Where Mom got it I don't know. For about 4 or 5 years I went every Sunday and to classes Wednesday night, until I left for another Unity Church. It was at Unity of Vancouver I learned God isn't an angry "old man" living in the sky somewhere just waiting for me to make a mistake and chalking up all the mistakes of my life to hold against me.  I learned the God of the Universe is a loving God who lives in each of us and also has a very short memory. He forgives long before we forgive ourselves.  We are the temples of the Living Christ. Now when I write out a prayer before reading my Daily Word the answer is more than likely the word for that day and the message answers my prayer or tells me how to deal with the prayer and the verse in the bible that deals with that word for the day.

7. From Unity of Vancouver I went to Unity In Action on Edinburgh Street and 17th Avenue in New Westminster B.C. Where Unity of Vancouver is a big beautiful church with stained glass windows, a platform that would hold a choir, and a grand piano Unity In Action is a small country style church in the midst of big city. It is a spiritual cozy, beautiful in it's own right as a historical building.  Unity has has had it for about 45 years as a number of years ago we celebrated it's 40th Birthday.  The first leadership group bought it from the Baptists who had it for I don'n know how long. I have been going there for 22 years and have no intention of leaving. It may hold 100 people, where as Unity of Vancouver would hold maybe close to 500. The difference makes Unity In Action a small community of friends with new people coming every week, to hear a wonderful Unity Minister who trained at Unity Institute of Learning at Unity Village, and listen to a wonderful professional piano player who can make that instrument talk, like a pipe organ, a band, guitar or any other musical instrument needed for the particular song being sung. The piano was a gift from a grateful member of Unity In Action. Our singers are first rate as well. There is also a half hour of prayer circle every Thursday at 6 PM from where our prayer box is prayed over for a month then sent to Silent Unity to be prayed over for another 30 days. From the fall to spring there is usually classes after the prayer circle.
We are so blessed by the love of God.

8. I served 6 years on the board of Unity In Action while we went through good times and bad that took payer, love and the patience of God to see us through. Now we are a happy healthy community of loving caring members who welcome anyone to come and join the singing, inspirational talk and music.


This is my list for the first week of August.  Didn't take as long as I thought it would.

Question

To anyone who reads my blog, can you answer a question for me.  If I am supporting you am I undermining what you are saying or meaning?  To me if I am supporting you that is what it means. I am agreeing with you, I am standing with you. How can it be that I am undermining what you said?  I don't understand.

End of July

Wow where did the year go let alone July,  as someone said the older you get the faster the days go which make the year go faster too. Back to the sunshine of summer, but the weekend of rain did help with the forest fires situation. Thank God for that.
Has anyone bought the Chicken Soup for the Soul Inspiration for Nurses?  I hope you have and are enjoying the stories in it.  Like all Chicken Soup books it is a good one.
I hope everyone who is going away camping this weekend remembers to be careful with fire of any kind including cigarettes. Just have a wonderful weekend and come home safe.

Rain yeehaa

How many of us remember the little rhyme rain, rain go away and come again another day. Well today Vancouver and any other part of British Columbia that is getting rain isn't saying that right now.  What we are saying is rain, rain come today and last a few more days.  The forest fire fighters need it, the gardens of Vancouver need it.  The reservoirs need it to replenish the water that they held. My rhubarb leaves are curled like a funnel to catch the rain so it runs down the stem to the ground below.
Thank God for answered prayers. It is not showering it is raining and looks like the rain we should have had in the winter but didn't get.

Wednesday 22

Today is a big day in family birthdays. My step-son's and grandson's birthday is today, a friend's son has his birthday to day and one of Ken's daughter has a birthday today.  I wish them all a great birthday, no matter what they do today.  I do know from his brother my grandson is getting his drivers licence today and his father is working.
Yesterday was a great and stressful day for me.  Chicken Soup for the Soul, Inspiration for Nurses came out and I also had a colonoscopy.  This time I was awake and could have watched the video but my eyes were closed as there was some pain.  I didn't expect to be awake. The last one I had I was put out.  Oh well different doctors do things differently.
Anyone who purchase the Chicken Soup book, and lives in the lower mainland can come to Unity In Action at Edinburgh and 17th in New Westminster and I will sign it for them. I've sold the 10 copies, well didn't sell them all as I gave a few away and there is a couple at the church.

She's Fit

I got a complement for going regularly to the gym, I thought I would quit as I'm going alone and it is  hard to get out  to go when I could be doing this or some other thing. But now I'm going to make an effort to go. That staff member gave me a boost that I needed. Thanks, oh darn I didn't get her name.
Don't know if it is helping me or not but once I get there I glad I'm there.

Health, love and prosperity

Those are three things that mean a lot to me but God as my source is the most important.  When I put God first everything comes to me in mega ways. I'm so happy to have finally seen my Chicken Soup for the Soul story in print.  I've been asked about it before it came out and I didn't want to give it away.  I wonder if that lady is still alive and if she is remembers saying those words to me.  Or her family.  I was so glad to see that woman walk out of a care home that she had come into in a vegetate state.  Why and how she was diagnosed that way was and is a mystery to me.  I hope anyone that reads this buys the book to find out just what I am talking about.  Bless you and I hope you enjoyed a long and happy life after walking out of that care home. I will never forget you.

Water

The forests and the earth of B.C need the rain, it needs water. I'm water logged.  I've been drinking 3 pop bottles of water a day and sometimes 3 and a half.  But I need it because this heat is causing me to contain fluid in my extremities. My legs and hands keep filling with fluid.  You would think I should reduce my water intake but my acupuncturist says to increase so I urinate more to take more excess fluid out.
Oh yea I get my 10 Chicken Soup for the Soul tomorrow night.  They came to Ken's cousin's U.S mail box and he and his wife are coming for dinner tomorrow night.  Will have a few at Unity In Action Sunday.

Wonderful weekend

Oh yes Perry was wonderful, sorry for those who couldn't make it, you missed a wonderful evening and also a baked potato with all and I mean all the trimmings.  Maybe the next time, I will be sure to let everyone know when where he is performing again.
This smoke is getting to me, I hope it is blown away or rained on and the fires go out all over the province and Washington State.  We need water, rain water for about a week then we just might be able to get through the summer with out burning up the province.  

Perry Dickison

We're going to the Columbia theater in New Westminster tonight to see a dear friend perform.  Anyone who wants to enjoy an evening of song and piano music come and enjoy.  Perry Dickison will be performing at the Columbia, across the street from the Columbia Skytrain Station in New Westminster tonight at 7:30 doors open at 7PM and price is $20.00.  Hope to see those of you who read this there.

I'm hot

I'm hot, I want some relief, asap.  Vancouver has had 28 days of sunshine and growing temperatures in June, didn't count May but there was about as many.  July looks to be going in the same way.  I want rain.  I want cooler weather.  I want to go where there is some cool air.  I know down south, way down south on the other side of the equator.  Too much money or darn I can't go.  Should be spending time and sleeping in the basement, cooler down there than on the main floor. If it wasn't for the grape vine which hangs down over the south side of the house and gives some shade it would be hotter.
Yesterday in the house it was 87F cooled down to 84F when we went to bed. Out side the thermometer is in Celsius and it was 34C in the shade.  The temperature at Vancouver Airport broke a record from 1942 of 32C.  I want some cooler weather but may have to wait until fall when it will start to cool down naturally.

July 1 2015

Wow, half the year is  gone. If the last half goes as fast as the first half it will be Christmas before we know it, then the new year will be upon us.
I hope everyone has a great Dominion Day, I'm an oldie, I grew up with Dominion (of Canada) Day. I know now they have changed it to just Canada Day. Okay I'll go along with that and I am proud to be Canadian.  A number of years ago my late husband and I went to the Ukraine and were were treated very well because we were Canadians.  They liked, at that time, Canadians.
Try to keep cool, but with this weather it maybe a little difficult, go swimming, that will cool you off. Too bad I'm not near the water.
I feel for the people of Nelson B.C. they are cleaning up after a very bad storm that uprooted trees and made a mess of the beautiful and well used Lakeside Park. I pray and and am glad there was no mention of anyone being hurt.

Too slow and too hot

Hey those of you that read this, sorry for not writing for a while.  It has been too hot, and I'm too slow on the uptake.  Forgot and forget and actually don't have much to write about anyway.  Not doing much of anything except writing my police mystery that has to be finished by Sept 24 and ready to send to traditional publisher by Christmas.  YeeHaa.  Wish me luck. I've tried traditional publishers before but they don't want what I write.  This time though I will have something they are looking for.  Maybe with the help of a friend who I am editing and passing on suggestions with this one is exactly what they want.  I am going to be paid for my work I'm not paying the publisher to help me self publish.  Don't have the knowledge to self promote, wish I did.  Okay no promise as to when I will be back but I do promise to be here at least once a week unless I go back to the alphabet then I can maybe do a daily again.  Okay will try the alphabet again, not looking at what I did last time.  You can check and see if they are the same or not.  Thanks for looking in even if I don't know you are here.

Tuesday nights

I really enjoy my writing evening with my friend.  We discuss where our characters are going and how we are going to get them there.  Last night we added suspects who look guilty but are innocent.  My main character is interviewing suspect #2 and finding out some interesting information.  How he uses it I'm not sure yet but he will.  We know how suspect #1 is associated with the crime but not suspect #2.  I've been writing that for most of a couple of hours but I got to a but and wasn't sure where to take that, but the main character will tell me soon I'm sure.  I want to know what happens just like a reader. hehe

Frustration dissipated

It is okay to have a bar-ba-que in the back yard.Just got confirmation to that effect.  Asked for a letter as I'm sure the next time we bbq the firemen will be back.
Going to my writing group tonight it is only me and another lady but we critique and talk about our writing.  We promised ourselves that by Christmas our manuscripts will be ready for traditional publishers.  I have been diligent about doing some writing each day, I now have a goal to to work to.

F is for frustration again

We are having problems with our neighbors with our bar-ba-quing.  They don't like the smoke from the charcoal so they call the fire department.  They come and tell us don't use wood, okay we aren't using wood.  That was two weeks ago when the firemen came twice and put the b-b-q out before we got our meat cooked.  But Saturday when they came we were using charcoal.  Now what is the problem, too much smoke and a open fire in a b-b-q.  Tell me how else do you cook with a b-b-q without some fire?  So Ken went to the city hall this afternoon and was only given a phone number that was out of service and an e-mail that didn't work.  Frustration! I think that the person who is complaining doesn't have a b-b-q and is jealous about ours.  Somehow we will find out what can be burned and how.  Maybe there is no b-b-qing anymore this summer with "smoke or fire".  I don't know.

I don't know

I keep trying even if I have nothing to write about.  I have a week to come up with 5 prompts to send into the e-mail prompts I started in May.  I just can't come up with the ones for July.  Oh maybe, what you write about on your daily blog or website if you have nothing to say except what you are doing today.  Now there is an idea for #6 but there are 4 more.
I've been trying to remember to Google someone I knew years ago, but keep forgetting when I'm at the computer.  Will do that right now and write the prompt.  Maybe I should keep typing then I might come up with #7- 10.

Maybe F for frustrated

I'm frustrated today as I tried to get a "free" help to market my books, it said state or province.  Well it wouldn't let me enter a province it was only the states.  So I quit after 3 tries, of going out and coming back to repeat the process.
But I am also happy about my critiquing with a friend on Tuesdays night.  We both learn a lot about our characters and the mysteries we are writing.  We agreed to have the first draft finished  by Sept 24 and ready for sending to publisher, not self publishing by Christmas.
Still waiting for my check from Chicken Soup, they said June and June is over half over and I haven't got my check yet or my 10 books that I get for the story in Chicken Soup for the  Inspirational Nurses Soul, which is coming into stores July 21.  Hope you buy it and bring it to Unity In Action at Edinburgh and 17th in New Westminster on a Sunday for me to sign.  I will be glad to sign it for you.

My thanks to people

I want to thank my good friend for doing my duty yesterday at church.  He took over as chaplain after service as I wasn't up to going to church yesterday.  

I thank God for getting me out of a tough situation.  He is always there for me when I call on Him which I do often as he never leaves me. I may leave Him or think I can but there is no way I can get away from His presence, power, love or life.  

My thanks to someone who listened to me and talked to the person I asked her/him to talk to.  I am so grateful to everyone in my life.  Thank you all for your love, life and presence in my life.

June 12 I think

Lovely sunny day and warm with no wind, but I feel lousy.  I seem to be having an allergic reaction to a new med.  My face is sore and swollen, I have a rash around me eyes and nose.  I don't know why I'm writing today other than looking for commiseration, some one to feel sorry for me.  I know I do.
Oh well, I'm going to quit begging for sympathy and go outside in the sun.
Did what I had to do now I'm going to do what I want, nothing. hehe

June 11

I know I haven't written for a few days.  Went to a sort of private writers group Tuesday night.  It is a sort of writers group as there are two of us and we discuss and go over writing ideas and ways to write what ever we are writing.  Right now we are exploring mystery writing as that is what I have almost finished is a how done it. Well we know who done it but not why and how he is going to get caught.   It took to 3/4 of the way through to find out who but now that I know who I have to find out why and how he is going get caught and why he did what he did.
Have I got you interest peaked?  Well we have decided to have our manuscripts ready for sending to a traditional publisher by Christmas.  That means I have to find a publisher who is interested in mystery and 18 - 30 readers.  This isn't a Y.A it is a step above.  Y.A is young adult, teens to 20ish.
Didn't have anything to write about when I started but came up with something didn't I.

Feelings

Sometimes it is hard to deal with feelings. They come up at the most inopportune time. For instance you feel you want or need something but it depends on someone else make it available for you.  One person says you deserve it and another says no, but the one who says no is the one who has the authority to do it or not.  I know this sounds confusing, well it is.

Another time you are given something that make your glow with happiness or joy. 

Why can't life be simple, okay if you, I give my life over to the care of God it should be simple and level.  Now there is an idea.  I give my life to God and He will take care of the problems.  Thank You God for being God in my life.  Takes a while to get to the point of life, turn it over to God.  So there!! 

Another letter of the alphabet

Oh I don't know, I seems the word is I again.  I went to the gym this morning alone as my friend goes to the beach on nice sunny warm days, which leaves me to either go alone or not go.  I think I would rather go than not go.
I read Psalm 40, 1-3 this morning and added my prayer.  Not suppose to tell anyone until after it comes about.
I have a question to anyone who knows something about computers.  Why won't a talking cd not work on my laptop.  I've tried a number of times and nothing.  When I take it out it is turning, but nothing had been coming through. Yes I had the sound on.  Now this gives someone a reason to respond.  I had promised to write something daily and I'm kept my end of the deal.  Maybe I've missed a couple of days when I am busy but I try.  Besides it is hard when there is only one computer and Ken is on it.

Letter of the Alphabet

Nothing to say today so will use a letter from the Alphabet.  How about the letter I, I am. I am what?  I am the child of the living God.  I am willing to wait on the Lord, now that is the hard part because I want it now.  But the service this morning was Psalm 40 1-3 which says I wait upon the Lord, and He lifted me out of the mire and mud to the solid rock.  I am learning to wait, but it is one of the hardest things to do.  I just realized something, while I am waiting I can pray for patience or just go inside and know the Lord is with me and he will move the line or what ever is holding me up along.  He is marvelous and loves me unconditionally.  Thank You God
Now I remember if I can't think of something to write go to the Alphabet.  Smart thinking

Got something it brag about today

I've just sent White Medicine Woman to Self e library service and if I don't hear from them with in a few weeks, White Medicine Woman will be accepted and it will be a couple of months before I hear anything regarding where it will be available.  Yee Haa!!!!
Maybe that is all.
Not much to report today, except why am I inside when the sun is shinning?  Good question, can't answer.  Oh well I'm going out side for a while in the warmth.

Blah day

Don't have anything to write about today except, I want the sun, this rain, cold weather is bad for my arthritis.  I need to be in Arizona or the Okanagan.  I'm suppose to be doing this soreness in the winter but we had such a nice winter I didn't get sore. Now is not the time and I don't like it

Water

This trying to drink 8 glasses of water a day is bad. Especially when you are only used to 2 glasses a day or three, but never 8.  My acupuncturist suggested it to help with my water retention and swelling hands, feet and legs.  I promised I would try and this is the second day of 2 weeks.  Wow I may drown,, hehe.  Doubt it though but I may have to stay near a bathroom.  Will keep you informed as to how my swelling goes down or not.

One Computer

Not used to only having one computer.  We had a power outage and it crashed Ken's computer a few days ago.  Now we only have the laptop until Ken's computer comes back from our friend who is a computer geek.  Hopefully he can fix it and Ken doesn't have to get a new hard drive.
Had my second acupuncture treatment to day, it was interesting I had 12 needles and only one really felt "interesting", may not be the right word but it tingled, felt like I kept pricking my leg with a sewing needle.  I knew the others were there but not like that one in my leg.  There is no after residual feeling or marking in my legs, abdomen or arms or hands.  My acupuncturist is a lovely lady, the wife of my chiropractor and in the same office, otherwise I don't think I would have been going.

Father's Day, Mother's Day

You know May and June are not nice months anymore.  May 3 was my mother's birthday, then comes Mother's Day, and June is Father's Day.  Then in your e-mail or on the tv are advertisements of what to get Mom or Dad for their special day.  From the first of May to the end of June all I think about is my parents.  I was lucky to have loving parents who told me I could do anything I wanted. Talking to people sometimes reminds me just how lucky I was.  I knew  my parents loved me and okay, maybe I felt I couldn't tell them everything, I didn't want to hurt them.  But maybe I should have trusted that love and told them their favorite son-in-law as a child abuser.  No maybe not that would have hurt too much for me and them.  After he was accused and punished, yea right, 6 months in a motel in Kamloops, my parents had already died.  I don't know where I am going with this but to tell any child or adult child to report child abuse to your parent or another adult.  Tell someone, you are not to blame, it was not your fault, you were a child when it happened.
To those who read this, forgive my rambling, I had no idea that was where this was going.

Question of the day hehe

Can anyone tell me why organic anything is more expensive than unorganic?  Okay my computer doesn't like that word.  But if it isn't organic what is it?  Un is a stand in for not.  Okay anyway
Organic foods which don't have all the extra pasteurizing, all the antibiotics, growth hormones etc in it, should be cheaper, yes?  Why not, it has just been grown and harvested and put into the store, right?  So there for should be cheaper?  But that isn't so is it.  Okay enough rambling.  I just want to buy organic but can't afford the high price.  Yes sometimes it is worth it but sometimes it is just too much.

Monday May22

Don't know what to write about today.  Maybe just to say I'm glad my friend is back from her Europe trip. She went to the Normandy beaches that were assaulted by the American troops June 6 1945. When I was in Britain I went to the bay they assembled at.  I'm sure her experience was as great as mine was at the bay.  Darn I don't remember the name of it. Will have to look it up or look at a map of Britain.  It is in the Devon area. My friend and family went to an American grave site and the whole family was overwhelmed with tears as they looked at the row upon row of white crosses.
Being as I didn't have anything to write about I think I did okay.
June 6th is also my dear friend's birthday, she would have been 87 this year had she lived.  She has been gone a little over a year and I still miss her.  I have her picture that I took the winter before she died still on my cell phone.  I just can't seem to take it off.  It keeps her close to me.  Love you Gloria

Unexpected things happen

Did you know that good thing happen when you aren't expecting them?  I was given a reason today to continue writing in my blog.   I though maybe no one was reading my blogs.  I was writing for myself. Thanks to a person today I know I'm not going to be writing for myself anymore if I was before.  I want to thank you, for giving me the reason to continue.  Together we will continue living, loving and being there for those who need us.  God does work in mysterious ways  to perform his unconditional love.

Problems

Sometimes it is he77 not having a credit card.  I want to do something on line and they ask for a credit card number, well I don't have one.  Can't because of the bankruptcy.
I have an account with pay pal but they want credit card information too, I can use a bank account but not until after 24 hours.  Okay maybe that is good I can't order the My Bookstore App so I can sell my books through this company.  Oh sh...  Maybe I'm not suppose to get this product.  Maybe this is a take time to think about it.  Maybe oh I don't know.  This or something better.  I can only hope something will happen before the 21 hours left in the deal is up.

Another writing prompt

A friend at square dancing Tuesday night gave me an idea for a prompt.  He named (an early) President that had an affair with a slave and she had a baby.  Now what happened to the child or the mother?  Why would a president who was against slavery own a slave anyway?  No it was not President Abraham Lincoln and earlier one.
My story won't be a president but a high ranking army general, fiction character and he is married.

Problem

Just got a contest prompt that asks for a story of 1000 words, a favorite book character comes of the page of the book and has a discussion with you.  Now which one do I use?  That is the question.
The black stallion I was just reading about in a book I found a number of days ago from when I was a teen, or Napoleon Solo from the Man from UNCLE  that I found at the same time.  Maybe his partner.  It didn't say anything about it being also a TV character.  Now what do I do?  How about Roy and Trigger or The Lone Ranger or a number of other characters from books that became hour long TV programs. That is what I said I have a problem.

Zip to say

Nothing to say today, so won't bother anyone with babble.  Am washing  clothes and am still alone.  Ken stayed at a friends last night.

Victoria Day

Enjoy the first long weekend of the year.  Sitting at home alone, Ken must have gone out with Sam a friend of ours while I was at church.  I was sitting out side in the sunshine but it got too warm so I came in and,  who cares?  I'm not going to write here what I am doing or not doing.  Enough

Closer Walk with God

How many of us have gone on a walk with God?  At the class at the church Thursday night that is what we did.  We went on a half hour walk, the 12 of us walked around the church, down the sidewalk and then came back.  We each had a booklet with different things we were to do.  Every so often we were to stop and say a prayer.  You know by the time I got back into the fellowship hall I  was feeling spiritually high.  I had hugged a tree and got a hug back or that is what it felt like.  The tree was spiritual.  When was the last time you hugged a tree?  Try it one day you are out for a nature walk.  Take only God with you, tell him you feel His presence, see Him in the nature around you. Let Him guide your footsteps.  Don't pay attention where you are walking just walk.  Find something that peaks your interest, a rock, a twig, a weed.  Smell the flowers around you.  Just walk with God for half an hour and then come back to where you started and sit and contemplate what you saw, how you felt and know that you are never alone.

Don't do it

I want to say it again, don't go looking for something, you won't find that but you will clean out drawers.  Did it again, went looking for an old small bible that was my dad's and found a lot of other stuff I didn't realize I had, cleaned out another drawer, well emptied it actually and have a lot of stuff for Value Village.  Also found that 5 shares of BCRIC given to every British Columbian  many years ago.  Tried to find out what it is worth today and can't find the value, yes the Share is shown but no value is anywhere.  If anyone can find out what they are worth now can you let me know. Other wise I am going to put it in the  garbage.
Don't do it please, it is a waste of time, okay it wasn't really but I didn't find what I was looking for but did find other valuable things.

Wow Chicken Soup for the Soul

Well I am a paid published author!!!!
Chicken Soup for the Soul has a story of mine in its new Chicken Soup book coming out July 21 2015.  I couldn't get to write on the page with the cover so am following up here.  Please look for the book and buy it.  Then go to either Facebook or Amazon.com or creatspace.com and leave a comment.  Wow am I a happy camper.  I'm in Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup for the Soul Inspiration for the Nurses Soul

 

No idea?

Today I have no idea what to write about,  I'm tired and yet I had a good sleep last night.  Tonight is the Square Dancing Grad,  I remember my grad last year and it was fun.  I hope the ones who are graduating from beginners to main stream get the same enjoyment as we did last year.  I know some of you didn't like my grad picture I had up but it meant something to me as it was my first grad even if it was just from Square Dancing.
Should go upstairs and sew that skirt and lining I just cut out.  Made two blouses from a pattern my niece sent me in an e-mail.  You make your own patterns and then cut the cloth to the pattern you cut out.
Did okay with not knowing what to write about today.

Writing prompts

Hi, those of you who read my blog a number of days ago saw that I had been accepted as a prompt writer with the Working Writers Club.   Well, the prompts are up on the working writers club website.Go to the website It is the WorkingWritersGroup.com with Suzanne Lieurance's name in the small print.and at the top of the page click on Creative Writing Prompts and go to the bottom of the page.  There is a number of them.  If you decide to write about any of the prompts let me know please as I would be interested in which one and why you chose it.

Going to tell you a secret

Yea right, I suppose every woman knows not to go looking for something in a messy drawer.  I did this morning and ended up cleaning 3 drawers.  Oh yea I found what I was looking for but kept on cleaning anyway.  Now I have 3 clean drawers but didn't do what I was going to do.  Maybe I will after I finish this.
My niece sent me an e-mail with simple you draw patterns for blouses.  Well I made one than decided I had some material that I didn't know what to do with so started another.  I wanted to make it a little different so was going to put a  collar on it.  I had to find a collar pattern that was what I was looking for when I ended up cleaning the drawers.
Also what am I doing in the house on a lovely day like it is, only it is too hot to sit in the sun.  Kind of cool in the shade so the next best thing is to stay in but I don't want to.  Oh well I will see.
Happy Mothers Day to any mothers who read this

I'm in a hurry

My mammogram is this afternoon and I thought I would spend a few minutes writing something.  I got a new "job".  Well it isn't a paying job but I get publicity as the writer of writing prompts.  Some I wouldn't mind writing about myself.  I may do one or two that I suggested. That is how I get my stories anyway is from prompts of some kind.  The person who gave me the position wants 10 a month. I think I can do that.  It took me about 20 minutes to half an hour to come up with the first 10. Junes shouldn't be much harder, I hope.  I can look at a picture or see something and there is a prompt.  Don't know where or when she will be posting them but when I find out I will post it here as to where you can see the prompts.
Got to go later or tomorrow.

Mothers Day

My mother who I love very much has passed on to her time with God.  It was Oct 27 1982 when I went to the care home she was in at 2PM as was my visiting time.  I went to her room and found her gasping for breath. I knew she was dying and ran to the nurse's station, on the way I met my nephew who was just coming back with a nurse.  He said he had been trying to call me for the last hour but there was no answer.  I had been next door having lunch with a friend during that time.  The day before my mother and I had a wonderful visit. She was feeling great, happy and was glad to see my poodle as was everyone else who Muffin counted as friends at the home.  I was glad we had that day together.  I think God knew that I would be better with not sitting with her as she died.  I thank him for having my friend invite me for lunch that day.  My nephew was the one who watched her pass through to the next level of her spirit's journey.  After we came home and I phoned my husband at work and he came home.  It was later in the afternoon when the police showed up.  I had no idea why they were here but they wanted to know if I was satisfied with the care Mom had received at the care home.  I said yes I was and there was no complaints.  My nephew said the same thing.  My reason for writing this at this time is to say if you have a living mother, cherish her with all you have.  You don't need to shower her with gifts, take her our for a lunch or dinner, if you can't afford that give her a big long hug, and tell her you love her with all your heart.  That is what she wants to hear anyway.
Phone her if she isn't in your area.

Today I don't know what to write about so

Lets start at the beginning again.  A!
A is for attitude of gratitude,  you have to have an attitude of gratitude to enjoy living.  An attitude of lack or dis ease is not helping you live with love and kindness.  Okay lets say you are feeling down, how do you extend your attitude towards others?  You grumble and complain, do they enjoy your company, I don't think so but if you let go of your feeling of being down and get an attitude of gratitude for what you have, life, health and ability to move talk, feel and friends and family that love you.  Wow are you lucky and in a much better mood for the people around you.  I know I am when I am down I let go and let God guide me to my highest good, and my day turns out 100% better than it would have if I had kept that feeling of being down and unloved.  I know God loves me unconditionally and that is one love that no one can take away from me ever.

RMS Acquitania

Ship Beautiful, when I was on her in 1948 her first trip from Halifax back to Britain, I didn't realize, well I was only 6-7 years old, I had my 7th birthday on board, that she was the most luxurious ship of her time.  She had survived both wars and been a troop carrier.  Her career was one of the longest in history, 30 years and only broken by Queen E2 in 2005 who had 40 years of service.  How I found all this out is that I am writing a story about a young boy who is okay my age at the time, who is sent from Britain to work on his Uncles farm.  It is also going to be a historical fiction about a train trip across Canada.  I can't find out anything about the orphan train that ran in Canada, I thought there was one in Canada as well as the states.  But maybe there wasn't. I don't want to make it American I want the boy to come to British Columbia.
How I  got started with this story is that one night Ken and I were talking about something that was on the radio.  We got into the discussion about  the children who were sent to Canada during the second war,  but I found out that it was after the war that Ship Beautiful came to Canada so I couldn't use that.  Had to make it after the war.   To find out that Mom and I went and came back on the most luxurious ship of the time I wish I remembered more about her.  I do remember she handled a storm in the mid Atlantic very well.  I wasn't sea sick but Mom was and a lot of others in our cabin were too.  Also coming back we passed the Queen Mary she seemed bigger than the Acquitania.
Seems I am coming up with something to write about but maybe one day I will have to use the alphabet again.

Something new?

Well if I don't redo the alphabet I'm not sure I will know what to write daily.  I could start with the magazine I got from a friend about tours in Scotland.  Ken, I and maybe a niece, nephew and wife or a nephew will be joining us.  I would like them to met their relatives who are still there.  One niece and I went in 2001 and were in Invernes when the planes hit the twin towers Sept 11.  We were informed by the bed and breakfast owner we were inquiring about a room for a couple of days.  He asked us if we were American and had we heard what happened in New York.  We said no we were Canadian and no we hadn't heard.  He took us into the room we were going to have for a few days and there on the telee was the reenactment of  the disaster.  Didn't mean to dredge up old memories but that is what I wrote and am not going to delete it.  There was also a great difference from the airport we landed in on Sept 6 to the one we left from three weeks later.  Gatwick was a peaceful airport on the 6 but on the day we left it was a military zone.  Two security guards every few minutes were walking one way and then a couple of minutes later a different couple went the opposite direction.  It was scary to see them with sub-machines at the ready.  Then the shock of the Vancouver airport where there was no one around anywhere even to exchange money for the pay phone.  It was amazing how lax Vancouver's airport was in security in the middle of the night.   My niece and I thought about how easy it would be for someone to terrorize that airport.  I suppose this last line could be taken as a terrorist threat, BUT IT ISN'T!  I am just stating what happened and how amazed we were.

Happy Birthday Mom

One hundred and fourteen years ago my mother was born on Woodheed farm, just out side of Annan Scotland.  Today when I read the daily word I wished her a happy birthday.  She was my dearest friend, my mentor and my guide to who I am.  I wrote a story about my 15 Christmas one that will remain in my heart and mind for as long as I live.  She made me wrap my own present telling me it was for Daddy but I couldn't know what was inside it. Christmas morning the tag I had written for Daddy was gone and there was another tag on it, To Gladys with love Mom and Daddy.  It was a crinoline and somewhere downstairs I still have it these many years later.  No I don't wear it to square dancing, for that i wear ones my niece gave me or ones I got at the recycle sale.
My mother came from Scotland after her father died because he said she couldn't come just because a friend of her brothers asked her during the 1st World War.  Well when she came as a Registered Nurse she worked in Kerobert Hospital and met Uncle Jack's brother Peter Zubick while he was in the hospital with his wife who was dieing from a form or cancer.  After a few years Mom married Daddy who was the single father of 2 boys and 4 girls, then they had my sister, a son who died before he was a year old and then me.  I think any woman who would marry a man with 6 children to raise is a strong and loving woman.  That was my mother.  Happy Birthday Mom.

Last day of the alphabet

Z is for Zubick, my name from the time I was born to the time I married and changed my name.  I didn't know at that time or it was before you could keep your own name. Anyway I changed my name to Swedak and came up a quarter of the alphabet from the last to the 8th from the bottom.  In school when ever anything was called by alphabet the teacher or who ever it was always said "last but not least, Gladys Zubick.  I hated that so was in a way glad to change my name but I was still proud of what my father had done with his name.  He had made it a name that stood for honesty, integrate and someone who could deal with any animal in need of kindness and love and could make them do anything.  For instance a big red cow who he got for a cheep price because she didn't produce any milk, well Big Red after a while had to be milked 3 times a day she was so full.  There was also Barney a big horse that wouldn't pull logs for his owner.  Daddy got him cheep too because he wouldn't work.  Yea right, Barney would let me ride him while he pulled 2-3 logs.  The problem wasn't Barney it was the owner.  He had the chain pulled up so close the logs hit Barney's heals so and they hurt. See, the name Zubick was something to be proud of and I wish I still carried it but I am proud of Swedak too.  Daniel was a good husband and we after 20 years found out that we really loved eachother.  Then three years later he died, but life goes on and I found another love.
Have no idea what I will write about Monday but will try to continue with my daily blog even if no one reads it.

Y two days late

Y is not necessarily for only the young, feeling young is a matter of choice no matter what the calender age.  Young is for the child in all of us, to play and be happy within ourselves.  Some of us push the child down so deep it is smothered and we have to work hard to bring him or her back to the surface so we can play again.
The youth, children under say 18 years of age really have no idea what they have until it is gone.  A child knows within itself that something is there that says play, be happy and enjoy the life you have.  As we get older we dismiss that child and tell it I am an adult now, we put away childish things.  No we don't we just bury the joy of being happy and being able to play.  We are never too old to play and be happy.  No this is not me writing this it is God writing through me.  I sat down to type this and had no idea where I was going but here it is and I say Thank You God for being within me and letting me play.

X I have no idea

X can be for x-ray but what else I have no idea will have to look at my Thesaurus book and find something. One thing I found is x-chromosome, the female chromosome that makes a girl baby.   If x and y join you get a boy baby.  Okay enough about x's, oh yea there is also ex, for divorced spouses.  
It seems I am 2 days behind, as this is the last day of April and today I was suppose to be on Z but oh well I will continue into May writing something here daily now that I have started.

W?

Well there is a w.  Lets see W is for a list of words, another w, that may or may not be what you are looking for.
Wait, seems we are always waiting for something.  In an line up somewhere, waiting for someone to come so you can have the car when you have to be somewhere on time.
W is for today, Wednesday what is called hump day of the week.  Why? because it it the middle of the work week.  I'm coming up with a lot of w's aren't I?
Thought this would be a little harder than it is.
Another w is worthwhile.  You, I know I am worthwhile, I am worth my weight in gold, or is it now silver.  That would be a lot right now as I have to lose weight, which would bring my worth up not down.  I'm worthy of being loved, and being loving.
Tomorrow may be a little more difficult, X may be a one liner or one word.

V, v is for

V is for Victory over anything that is hanging over your head.  My victory is having Chicken Soup accept one of my stories.  This time I get paid for my work, I don't pay the publisher. Chicken Soup for the Inspirational Nurses Soul coming out in July has accepted Unresponsive a story about one of my L.P.N. nursing experiences.
V is also for validation to make legal, for instance validating a parking ticket or validating the right to your own opinion.  I have the right to my own opinion and in taking that right I validate it.
V is also for Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, underline the u hehe. As I heard on the news a few weeks ago a member of parliament doesn't know how to spell Columbia.  He wants us to be the country in South America, Colombia. Okay it is only one letter in a word, but it makes a big difference.
The same as to, too, and two.  I know people now use just one of the three to mean all three meanings. Okay enough rambling.  It is a good thing no one else reads this.  It is just for me to ramble on about nothing or something.

Today U is for Unity

To me Unity is a nondenominational house of God, whether you call It, God, Buddha, He or She, the Light or Energy.  At Unity you can have your God who or what every you want to call Him or Her.
I started going to Unity of Vancouver a number of years ago, well lets say over 25 years ago.  A friend asked me to go to a Christmas concert with her. I went and by February the next year I wanted to go and see what a Sunday service was like.  It intrigued me, I had never heard anything like I had heard at the Christmas concert.
The Sunday service was just as intriguing and I started going weekly, then something happened and I decided this wasn't why I was coming to church.  I found another Unity, this one in New Westminster, Unity In Action at the corner of Edinburgh and 17th.  I walked into that little country church in a big city and felt I was home.  I've been there ever since which 20 years.  I still have that same feeling of being at home and welcome. The people are family and all feel the love and warmth of the Christ in each other.  I was on the board of U.I.A for 6 years. I learned a lot and I think gave a lot.  We are so happy and proud of our minister now who comes all the way to Unity In Action from Washington State every Sunday and Thursday.  He is our spiritual leader and friend.  Thank You Rev Roy A.
I also want to praise Silent Unity in Kansas U.S.A.  They are 125 years old this year.  You can e-mail them a prayer, phone in for a prayer and they will pray with you.  Silent Unity prayers over wants, needs and requests for a month.  That is a lot of prayer power.  Unity Churches have a prayer box that is prayed over for a month too then they are sent to Silent Unity for another month.  There again is a lot of prayer power. Thank you Unity In Action and Silent Unity for all the prayer power you give.

Saturday should be for U

But I think I just want to write about what I am feeling right now. Just  came from a spiritual meeting, one that a number of us attend at a lady's home about every 6-7 weeks.  I felt today as if I had missed something a number of years ago when I was meditating on a room with mirrors.  I was finally able to open the door to the room but all the mirrors were covered except one.  As all the coverings came off I saw my life from the time I was little to the present day.  Maybe the mirror I missed was one that has recently been added to that room.  I'm afraid to go back and look at the mirrors again.  But I know at some time I will and maybe like or not what is behind the curtain. It is bothering me spiritually but I will deal with it as I dealt with the room before.  When I am ready I will open the door again.  The difference this time will be that God will be with me.  The last time I opened that door I was alone.  God is always with me now, I am never alone.

Time, treasure and talent

If you have the time you  have treasure and talent.Now what does that mean?  Well that is what you donate to your house of worship or any other donation you decide to grant your time, treasure or talent to.  Treasure does not necessarily mean money, it can mean just you giving of yourself, using your talent for what what is needed or wanted.  Everyone has some kind of talent, maybe not necessarily singing, I can't sing worth a dime but I have donated my time to sing in a small choir for a day.  I had fun getting to know the other people in the choir and singing songs I knew.
Time I have a lot of, maybe you have some time too to give some of it away and receive nothing special in return but know you gave of yourself.  That in itself is a treasure to you.
Oh yea I mentioned talent, I thought for a long time I didn't have any talent, what was that, what was talent.  Well talent is being there just to listen, or give a hug. You may not believe that but one day when you see someone in need of someone to just listen give an ear or just a hug.  A hug is no more than that, A HUG!  I used to think it meant a whole lot more but I found out that I needed just a hug sometimes and so does everyone else.
This is a long one, maybe because I didn't write it, God did through me.

S

S is for the sweet smell of Lilacs in the spring.  The smell is sometimes overpowering but so sweet it is sensually pleasant.
I am sore from the dampness of the rain. I want the rain to stop or maybe I should go to somewhere warm and cozy.  Now there is an idea.  
Serenity was a pretty young girl who spent her time wandering through the sweet smelling forest of lilacs.  She was so taken with the scent that she didn't notice the shallow ditch on the side of the path. From the ditch a scent of decay overcame her and she looked down and saw an old bush of decaying lilacs.  She picked it up and with the serenity of her love she brought them back to the beauty of the wonder of life.

R is for ....

Rest, relaxation, resources,  to get rest you have to relax into quiet resource hehe.
Remake yourself by changing your attitude towards yourself and your surroundings.  Change your mind to change your attitude.
Oh, r is for rhubarb, which is growing nicely in my yard.  Can't wait for the next picking.  We have already had rhubarb muffins and they were good.  Don't have enough to make a rhubarb pie but don't really know how to make a rhubarb pie.  One I made ran all over the plate and over the oven.  Tasted good though but it was more like a rhubarb crumble than a pie.  I love rhubarb and strawberry pie but again don't know how to make one.  Maybe I should google it hehe.
Rest assured I will finish the alphabet as I've got to R tomorrow is S, don't know what to write about S yet but something will come up.

Today is Q

There isn't many words that begin with Q and a Q always seems to needs a u after it to make a word.  Quality instead of quantity is a one that I like and is good one to live by.  If you have quality you have what you need in life.  Quantity only means that you have a lot of something but it is not necessary worth what you want it to be.  The quality life means a whole lot more to me that the quantity. I think any who reads this will understand that statement.
Q is also for quiet of mind when you are stressed.  Quiet the mind and quiet the body at the same time.  Breath in the quiet of peace and exhale the stress and tension.  You will feel a whole lot better and you will be much happier.  

O is for ooops

Sorry to those who are following my alphabet blog.  I forgot Friday to even come on the computer till late in the afternoon.  I was enjoying the warm sunshine, reading outside.
Now o as I said is for ooops, sorry I forgot.
P is for please forgive me for forgetting.  Will try to remember to write daily from not on even if the sun is shinning and I want to go out and read.
O is for opulent, what ever that is, maybe I should look it up since I wrote it.  Don't you think?
Rich abundance, okay I have abundance opulently. hehe. I Am richly abundant with the Power of God.
O is also for Omnipotent and P for Power and Presence of the One who is All
P is for the pleasure of ones company who you love and respect.

M is for mistake, N is for ...

I forgot to write yesterday, spent too much time enjoying my birthday.  It was a wonderful day, first went to the gym with a dear friend then went shopping with whit her. She knows about colors and what looks right on a person. When  I came home decided to have pizza for dinner. Tonight we are  having an organic pork roast for dinner.
Okay now for N,  N is for new year, new day. Nice friends and family.  New clothes I can't wait to wear to show off.  Wearing one of the blouses today.
Oh yea N is for nephew, my nephew is visiting for his week out of camp at Kitimat.  He has worked there  for about 3 years now.  He  is in for 3 weeks then out for a week. It has been a while since he visited.
Note:  there is a call from Chicken Soup for the Soul for cat stories.  Check them out at www.chickensoup.com  

L is for

L is for letting me know you are, if anyone is, reading this.  That is why I didn't blog before, no one read it anyway.  I was just wasting my time like I may be doing now.
L is also for love, of self and of others, you can't love someone else unless you love yourself first. You may not like what someone does but you can still love them for who they are.  A human being who is not perfect,  no one is perfect.  We try but no one meets the mark of being Jesus but Jesus Himself.
L is for linked to someone by a connection as delicate as a feather but as strong as a steel beam.
L is for lunar when there is a full moon some of us become lunatics which just means we are affected by the pull of the moon, not that we are crazy.  Work a night shift in the hospital during a full moon and see all the bells that ring for one reason or another.  Any nurses reading this will understand that.

K is for

I have no idea, lets see, K is for a kite, k is for kindness given and received.  Now there is a word that needs no introduction, kindness.  Kindness is what is given to a person in need of a little love, maybe a hug or a kind word or maybe even a kiss on the cheek or the lips for that matter.  We all at sometime need a kind word.  When we are down, unhappy, or feeling low for one reason or another.  It makes us feel a whole lot better knowing someone cares enough to give us a little kindness.  Kindness begets kindness and love.  When you are kind to me I want to be kind to you.

Sunday

Tomorrow is K to day is a day of relaxation and joy in having my nephew here for a week.  He works up in Kitimat and is in for 3 weeks then out for a week.  Making good money, wish I was young and handsome then I could go up to camp and make money for my retirement.  Yea right, when you are young you don't think about your retirement.  All you think about is spending the money you make.

The letter Jay

Today is the letter is Jay.
Jay for Joy of living.  Living with Joy is a wondrous thing.  You feel alive and want participate in your life.  With no joy in your life you just exist and have no real life.  With Joy you love everything, your family, friends, and just about everyone else in the world.  You okay I enjoy the sunshine, which it is doing right now instead of rain but rain is okay too as we need the rain for the plants that grow in the spring.  But rain is not for us arthritic suffers.  I know when it is going to rain because I get pain in my joints, another jay word.  But once I get up I start to feel better and I still feel the joy of living when I know I am loved and I am loving.

I is for indecision

Indecision is something that keeps me from doing what I want to do.  But if I can make up my mind to do the what ever it is the indecision goes away.  Indecision can keep me from making up my mind to do what ever.  Okay for instance I want to go to the book store and ask to have a book signing but the indecision is stopping me from hopping on the bus and going down to Broadway, walking into the book store and asking to speak to the manager.  S/he may say no, but s/he just might say yes then what do I do.  There again is the indecision, what do I do if s/he says yes?
See how indecision can effect your life?  If I (another I word) take my God given courage in my hands and go for it I would find out what the manager would say and I would know.

H is for

No H story today but something to think about.
H is for the heart of the problem, what problem there is no problem.
H is for the heart of love of which there is a whole bunch.
H is for the health of the body and the heart.
H is for the ham either from the pig or the ham that is a comedian when he hams it up.
H is for the handlebars of the bikes we ride or rode as children.
H is for helping someone in need. I need help to know who if anyone reads these.  So please help me by responding with a comment that you at least read it.  Thanks for the help.

Woops almost forgot

Okay today is G.
G is for the story of how God is leading my life.  I have let go of control and let God lead me.  It works if you let Him lead.
I asked a friend to go to a Christmas concert with me and she said she would if I went with her to the Christmas eve service at her church.  I did and by February I was going regular. God who had been in my life but I didn't realize it pulled me back into his fold.  I was hooked hehe.  I felt lonely if I didn't get to go to church on Sunday and maybe a class during the week.  It is like a drug a good drug but something that won't let me go.  I changed churches after a while because I wasn't happy with what was going on.  So I went to the church I'm going now.  Unity In Action has been my spiritual home for over 20 years.  I've gone through many ministers that came and went for one reason or another.  The minister we have now is loving, caring, a joy to listen to, and is truth.  I am the only chaplain now who listens to and prays with people who need a private prayer.  Tomorrow night I will be leading the prayer circle at 6PM for half an hour as the minister will be busy with other things.  He trusts me to do what is right for the people who come for prayer.  I thank him for his trust in me and God for the pleasure of being a member of Unity In Action at the corner of Edinburgh and 117th in New Westminster and a child of the living God.

Day 6 F?

Well no story today, don't think.
F is for faith in ourselves and in the Christ within.
F is for the friendship we share with people we like and love.
F is for freedom to do almost what we want with no one to tell us we can't that is as long as it is within the law of Canada.
F is for forgiveness of the hurt feelings that happen when someone or ourselves treat us as we don't like.  We have to find the feeling of forgiveness so we feel better.  That does not necessarily mean what we or the other person did is right or that we  condone it, we just don't take it on as ours.  We forgive and forget to make ourselves feel freedom from that feeling of regret or angry.
F is for facing up to what we do and take it on as ours, and if that means we ask for forgiveness so be it.
Forgive me for any hurt I  have done to you who ever you are and please forgive me.

D and E

Well lets see.  E is for Easter and D is for Day, so how was your Easter Day or week for that matter? Mine was great.  Got my palm leaf last Sunday and Daffodils yesterday at church.  Easter is a time of reflection on the rising of the Christ within you. Every Easter I renew my Christ centre and make it my place of peace.   

We had a big dinner here last evening, seven people, expecting 8 but one was sick. Sending her our love and prayers for a speedy recovery.

Our neighbor cooked a wonderful roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding and veggies. We had it here because we are the only one with a table big enough or so they say. Everyone enjoyed being together and the chatting.  That is what big dinners are suppose to be, enjoyed.  The hard part is doing the dishes.  But I did them this morning with help from Ken.  Tomorrow is F oh boy that will be interesting.

The minister yesterday started a response of the Alphabet.  What words can you come up with for each letter that is spiritual?  Okay that is a challenge for any one who reads this to post on facebook.

D is for, well lets see

The Divine love gives me everything I can ask for.  Not necessarily the way I expect or want but the Divine way.
This is a special weekend for Christians, the remembrance of the, as a friend said, the real birth of the Christ.  Divinity is what Jesus gave us.  He was reborn within each of us.  He told us that the Divine Love was within you.  He said Heaven was closer than your breath. I believe He is right behind my heart, my Christ place.  Also just behind your heart.  I'm not preaching but this is what came to the keys this morning to do with D.    Happy Easter to everyone.

Strange barn yard friends

The cat waited daily for her friend to return from her day of eating grass.  The cow was an unusual friend for Celia.  She came in to the barn only to be milked twice a day and then usually went back out again. Some days though she would spend the night and Celia would be able to crawl into her stall and cuddle by her head.
One night the cow spoke to Celia, "Hi, I've noticed you quite a few times.  Why do you come and cuddle with me?  I'm not your kind, I'm much bigger and I could hurt you if I took a bite of oats and you were too close."
Celia, was so surprised that she answered the cow.  "I cuddle up to you head because I'm lonely and I want someone to care about me.  You come in and on the nights you stay you let me cuddle. I'm too afraid to go out and the smells that come in with you are so interesting.  Do you mind that I cuddle?"
"No," the cow said.  "I don't mind, but why don't you come out with me tomorrow morning.  You might just like it."
"Oh But I couldn't go out.  It is so scary for someone so small as I am."
"Well, the cow said.  "If you climb on my back I will protect you from anything that scares you."
The  cat was so surprised that she said. "Oh would you.  I could go on your back and see the outside."
"Yes," said the cow.  Oh by the way my name is Clarabell.  Now lets go to sleep.  See you in the morning.  Good night Celia."
"Good night ClaraBell."

B Day, April 2

April 2, okay today is B day.
My birthday is in April there is an A too
I enjoy freshly home cooked bread.
There is no break in love
Bathsheba was David's love in the old testament.
I will look into my Thesaurus for B words I'm stuck
I loved being the babysitter for my nieces and nephews when we were young.
I want a big unknown word, but here is a word I love, bagpipes.  I love the sound of them.
I'm going to hear them at the Edinburgh tattoo August 2017.  Anyone want to come with us?
Here is one bamboozle, haven't heard that in a long time.  I'm not trying to bamboozle anyone with this.
Oh yea remember the Bucket seat in those old cars.  Who has ridden in a bucket seat?
That is it for today, C is tomorrow.  Hey maybe I should write short stories with the words instead of just lines with words in them.  Will consider that tomorrow.  Oh now there is a challenge.

Okay this is the first day of April and the letter is A
All of me is a wonderful person. I believe in me as a lady.
I AM one of God's children and have faith in His living in me.
A beautiful day, with sun and few clouds, God has made
 I AM going to enjoy it to the  fullest.
A willingness to be one with God is filling me to the fullest.

A to Z blog for April

I'm accepting the challenge to write something every day in April from April 1 with A to April 30 with Z but won't be posting on Sunday so that will be my day to go to church and enjoy the word of God.

I haven't written anything for some time because I don't know what to write in a blog and another thing is I doubt anyone reads it anyway.  

So if you read it please respond and let me know you have been here.  Then maybe I will continue.  

Thanks for any support you can give me.