Just Run

I found this quote on someone's facebook page and I just loved it.  I think the entire quote speaks for itself!


Run because you want to be fast. Run because you want to be skinny. Run to find some quiet time. Run to sweat. Run to eat. Run hear your heart pound in your ears. Run because you're a runner. Run because you gotta keep the streak. Run because you don't know why the hell you're running. Run because you fought with your partner. Run because your job is (bleep)y. Run because you got no money. Run for the sunrise. Run for a race. Run because it's impossible. Run because it's easy. Run instead of doing the laundry. Run instead of watching TV. Run because no one else understands. Run because the cool kids do it. Run because you're tired of talking. run for numbers. Run for feel. Run to prove something. Run because it (bleeping) hurts. Or don't run. If you got something better to do." - Jeff Edmonds

Will you join me?

A sweet family from my church is in need of your prayers.  Their precious little daughter, Emily, has downs syndrome and was recently diagnosed with leukemia.  At this time the family is juggling real life with hospital life.  Your prayers are needed to cover Jason (dad), Kelly (mom), Ethan (big brother) and of course little Emily.  Will you please join me in praying for this precious family?











Want to keep up with the latest updates on Emily?  http://www.livinglifewithes.blogspot.com/

It's a challenge.... Are you game?

Our weekly challenge for Good Morning Girls is to memorize Philippians 3:13-14 and to set a goal for the fall 2010 session.  I haven't quite memorized the verse but I am working on it.  As far as my goal, I am challenging myself to get on my knees daily and spent my quiet moments with the Lord before I go to bed.  If you are like me, I tend to do my nightly routine then tuck myself into bed.  Once my head is gently laid on my pillow I begin my prayers, which more times than I can count, end up being cut short because I have fallen asleep.  Sure I pray throughout the day, but what a difference it would make to get on my knees after I wake and before I sleep... allowing God to work throughout my day from the very beginning to the very end.  It's a challenge, especially if I am not in the habit.  So starting last night I got on my knees and began to speak to my heavenly Father.  I actually fell asleep much faster not fighting to keep my eyes open and my brain flowing with thanksgiving and requests for God.  I challenge you to memorize the scripture and set a personal goal.  It can be anything really... more quiet time, having a more gentle & quiet spirit, fasting... whatever.  As Courtney from Good Morning Girls suggests, pray about it.  Be blessed my readers!

It's official!!!!!

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning.  Ecclesiastes 3:11

The Wednesday Sisters

For the month of July, our book club chose to read The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton.  While I enjoyed the book overall, it certainly was not one of my favorites.  The writer added a little spontaneity throughout the book but left so many moments dull.  Some of the chapters just seem to drag on and lull me at times.  Here is an overview take directly from readinggroupguides.com

Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton’s beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.

For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature --- Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens --- and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year.

As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success.

Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friend s. 

Just taking a little break.....

I know many of my loyal readers have been a little disappointed with me in my lack of posting.  For that, I am sorry.  I have taken a little break from blogging.  This is, in part, due to my ever busy life as a stay-at-home mommy, soccer for my daughter, preschool for my son, bible studies, and just life in general.  I've had sickness in my family that has kept me away from the computer some.  Rest assured, I will get back to blogging very soon.  Until then, stay posted.  New posts are coming.

Brandy

The Help

Let me introduce you to my latest read and probably one of my top pick books of all time. The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  This fiction novel depicts the lives of southern women in the 60's and openly gives insight into the ways of the times during that decade.  I absolutely LOVED this book!  Riveting, powerful and definitely captivating.  Each night when I cracked open the book I was lured in more and more and hated having to actually put the book down so that I could carry on with my day.  The story of these women, the lives they lived often had me laughing out loud, crying with sadness and feeling anger & bitterness.  A definite must read for all your fiction junkies out there.

Brief description pulled from www.amazon.com

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Skeeter, Aibileen & Minny
Set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it.