Louder Than the Voices

Good Last Saturday morning of the year!      I cannot believe how fast time has went, and after almost an hour of looking back at the past year, I can't believe how much stuff was packed into it. And I guess my biggest thing is looking back at my post from a year ago; I cannot imagine the changes that happened- Good and bad. In January, we hosted Donna Beegle, she is probably one of my favorite motivational speakers for low-income families. She lived it, and overcame it. She was a product of generational poverty. When you work in my field, you learn there is generational poverty, and situational poverty. Generational is a lot harder to overcome, but Dr. Beegle is living proof and inspiration that it can be done. In February, I did my Family and Community Development Recertification. We spent most of the days studying goal- setting. I came home with the tools to set SMART goals ( talked about more in this blog post: Got Goals? it is a good time of year to review thi...

Not going to lie, when I realized it was snowing, I was downright giddy! I have even stated I would compromise, as it is such a busy travel weekend-- I am happy with a little on the grass, and some flakes in the sky. It seems like a lot of our friends are celebrating Christmas today, including us, as far as with the rest of our family. I kinda love when Christmas is on the weekends, I love spending time with my family, but when it coincides with being in church, worshiping Him, it just feels very right. (By the way, we are having our Christmas Eve service at 6 tomorrow night, some of you with kids, I know this makes it easier for some-please join us!) We are also coming to the close of our year, and I have been reflecting-- it has been a busy year, but I believe the good outweighed the bad this year in our house. I am hurting for my friends who can't say the same. I want to set all of that aside for just a few minutes and really focus on Christmas. Almost 2000 years ago, in a...

Today is one of those mornings that I am having too many thoughts to get  clearly down on paper, or a screen as it is. Once again, it is Christmas time and I have friends going through major turmoil. I have been there, done that, and right at this moment, am thanking the Lord that for the most part, things are calm at the Browning house this year. I have been on a journey this week, and it has spurred some new studying, not only looking inward, but to really have a better understanding of how I feel about our journey here on earth, predestination, and my part in what others believe as well. This is truly something I need to think about a lot, and study, before I really decide what to put down in words. In the last 48 hours though, I have had more than one friend make comments that made me think of a blog post I wrote last year. I think the best thing for me to do is share that post again. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS FROM DECEMBER 10, 2016 . (Link is below). I wrote this because...

I was truly hoping to wake up this morning to a blanket of white on the ground. Didn't happened but it is all good. It will happen. I know I have friends who absolutely don't want any snow, of course, normally I think to myself; hey, if you dislike it that much, move south.....but now the South has snow. We make plans, God laughs. So, milestones were met this week on my big project at work, and I am so very excited. One of the sub-projects was to put in two sets of radios at our buildings in Greenup. One running from our building to our newer building next door, and one running from our building to the outreach office uptown. Andrew put all of the hardware and cabling in place for me (he has learned to work with Cat 6 cable, and got to buy new toys to test and create cables, so he has had a learning experience too). Mike worked with the software side and yesterday morning at 11:15, they were all working! Now get this. You pay for bandwidth speed. Normal, household internet ...