Louder Than the Voices

 Hey There! Happy Saturday! I hope you have had a good week! Mine has been long and sometimes exhausting but overall, I realized this morning in my talk with God that the good by far outweighed the bad. When it seems like I have had a hard week, I fall back on something I used to have my AWANA boys do when it seemed like they were having a tough time. Give me 5 things. Just 5 things that went right this week.  Here are the FIRST five that came to mind: 1. I had a goal to make it back to the gym Mon-Fri of this week, and I did. 2. I had a goal to walk on the treadmill at least 30 minutes each of those days, and I did. 3. On Wednesday, I was asked to be a panelist for a workshop at the National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference. I was honored and gladly accepted. 4. Yesterday I was asked to hold a 4 hour workshop to help with customer satisfaction for not only our agency but two others. Again, I was honored and gladly accepted. 5. I travelled 2 days this week, being aw...

 Happy Saturday morning! Hope everyone is having a great, maybe a little laid back, start to the day. What a week! (Do I say that every week?) This week, we moved one of our ERBA outreach offices. I had the IT stuff all coordinated with the new building's CIO and we thought we had it all worked out----until we didn't. By the end of day one, we had plans B,C,D and E in our head but no proof that any of them would work, or more importantly, work quickly. Plan B was the second most viable and I was told on Day 2 that it would take 2-10 days to put in place. 3 hours later, after much prayer, and honestly praying someone else hadn't done their job completely, we were up and running! Pretty close to a miracle. So, Day 1's disaster turned into Day 2's big win.  Our whole week has been a series of ups and downs, and maybe most weeks are like that but this week it felt very pronounced.  We had been praying hard for a couple of things and one of them, we were told no and the ...

 I truly hope there are people out there who can say they have never in their lives been bullied. I am also truly hoping that if those people are out there it is not because they have always been the bully. When we think of bullying, I am sure many times our thoughts go to those not so great school days when someone made you feel like you didn't belong. I hate the fact that bullying is such a big problem yet today and that it seems like more kids than ever are being affected by it. I feel this is one place where technology has made life worse instead of better. When I was a kid and would have a run-in with one of my bullies, I knew I could come home. Home, where there was love. Home, where the bullies couldn't reach them because nobody could come in my house uninvited. Unfortunately, thanks to social media, pretty much anyone can be in your house nowadays, they are just a click away. And because of that word "frienemy", I am afraid for some, there just is no peace.  I...

Happy Valentine's Day eve!     I hope this week has been good for you. Mine has been eventful but good. I had to have a colonoscopy and an upper GI last Friday and the end result (sorry, pun wasn't intended) was, "If there were a magazine for colon's, your picture would be in it". Well, okay then. I thought that was pretty good, no polyps, no ulcers, no hernias and then to top it off, those of you have been around for a while knows I was diagnosed with UC in 2011 and had a bad time of it including multiple hospitalizations until 2018 when I learned to control it with diet, stress management and exercise. The result? Yesterday there was NO SIGNS OF UC!!! That is not even supposed to be possible but I did it. My friend Mike got me on the right path of what to take to heal and to learn the things I couldn't have if I want to keep it under control (Thank you so much, Mike, I am forever grateful for all your research and devotion to helping me!) .   The doctor said...

 Sadly, looking back, it has been almost a year since I have written on my blog. I kinda let the "do something" get out of control and I have finally worked on getting through that. I have a friend who I also visited as a lifecoach for a while, Teresa McCloy, who always uses the term "hair on fire". After months of meeting with her, reading her new book (Do What Matters-available on Amazon), and now going through it a second time with Andrew, I know I was very much going through life with my hair on fire. So now, I am going through life with singed hair, lol It takes a lot of courage and faith to jump into new things, but it also takes a lot of courage and faith to know when to say I need to stop the roller coaster. Actually, that is a really good analogy. Have you ever been on a roller coaster and really wanted to be off of it, as in NOW? I haven't, I love roller coasters and though they can be scary, for me, it is a bit like when my cat gets just scared enough...