New Start...day 1

For New Year's I tried to do a verse, word, and quote a day.  I haven't exactly been faithful with this.  I also wanted to complete at least one blog a day, and well... that hasn't happened either.  So today I decided to combine both of them.  This will be a blog just for my quote, verse, and word a day.  Please join me in this journey.  It is sure to be fun, and hopefully a place to learn and grow.  :)  



STIR-
My word of the day is stir.  When I think of this word it creates in me this image of making lemonade as a child.  I am not really sure why this is the image that comes to mind, but I can even taste the lemonade on my tongue, sipping it from the wooden spoon that we used to stir it up.  My favorite kind of lemonade to help make was the frozen kind.  For some reason it was so much fun to squeeze that frozen stuff from the container.  Ha...its amazing what kids think is fun.  As an adult I still stir things up in my life.  Most often I find myself stirring up drama even though I don't really intend to do that.  I sometimes wish that I could see as innocently as I did as a child.  But nothing is innocent and drama is part of my everyday life.  So, today as I think about life and what I want to happen I am going to try not to stir up things that are not positive.  I am going to try to take things in stride and love those around me.  


"True friendship is like sound health:  the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."  

How true is this quote?  I have lost many friends over the years.  Friends that I have just loved, and that I have trusted.  Some of them have been lost for a little while, but others well they are lost forever.  There is something about friendships that make my heart a little bit afraid to trust.  I think it is because we are constantly in a state of unknown.  Upon meeting someone you either have an instant connection or you don't.  Many of my best friends live far away from me, and have for many years.  This makes it hard because at one point in time we lived within minutes of each other, and we could interact in person on a daily basis.  There is a huge difference when thousands of miles separate you rather than just a few feet.  I have found though that the older I get the easier it is to trust and value people.  Mostly it is because I have learned that people don't always stay in your life.  There are going to be people that you just have to let go.  There are going to be people that you just have to be open to only having for a season.  The important thing is that during that season you make them the biggest part of your life.  You make sure they know that you value who they are.  

Revelation 5:9

 And they sang a new song, saying,

“Worthy are you to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
    from every tribe and language and people and nation,

I have been having a hard time lately reading my Bible and coming to terms with what my beliefs are.  But this verse says a lot to be.  From every tribe and language.  I look forward to the day when we will not be separated by language barriers.  As someone who has spent many of my professional years in other countries, I am always amazed at how many times I have felt alone or afraid just because I didn't understand what was being communicated.  One day we will all sing His praises.  One day we will be able to have all the answers.  One day we will be bowing at His feet.  I look forward to that day.