Time to enter a new door...

Pictures for me create a curiosity for me sometimes. For example the doors in this picture. Where is the setting of this picture? What city is it in? Who lives behind the door etc.?

Sometimes I have a curiosity about some doors I have not entered due to fear of the unknown. I have been feeling a tug of curiosity in my heart lately. What new doors would the Lord have me enter and what old doors would he have me close? I think sometimes I get so familiar with the doors I frequently enter (figuratively speaking) that I don't even ask my self why? for how long? when did I arrive here? etc.

Just like there are the four seasons I believe the Lord has seasons for our lives.What am I waiting for? What are you waiting for? I challenge you as I challenge myself to begin asking the Lord to help me to readily accept the new seasons that come my way. To be willing to knock on a few new doors and then being willing to enter through them when they open.

Matthew 7: 7-8

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

New journey...for me!

Today is Sunday, April 17th 2011! I made a decision recently that I am no longer content with my lack of discipline in my daily choices. Excercise! I am writing about excercise! My body is screaming for it! My mind is craving it! No more excuses for me! 

I will post a picture of me now...(which by the way I am not proud of) this will be like a before and after kind of thing. I am basically writing this blog to myself and to anyone else who needs to be encouraged to not settle with where they are at. I am tired of being tired all of the time!  I want to live with more energy and I want to help my heart pump more freely and easily! It's about taking care of the temple the Lord has given me!

I will try to post new updated pictures along this journey of trying to make good choices daily!

Happy Birthday to my Mom...February 2, 2011

The day was February 2, 1943

Wanda Jean Morris

made her debut...

 Happy Birthday Mom!

May your day be blessed!
You are a blessing to me! 

Wish I could be there to celebrate 

with you in person! You are special today and everyday 

to me!

I love you bigger than the sky!

Love your daughter,

Shelley 

Happy 18th Birthday to my son Landon! January 2nd, 2011

Happy 18th Birthday to my son Landon!

Crazy that my baby is 18!

So proud of you son!

I know God has so much planned for you and I am excited to be on the sidelines watching it all play out!

Just thinking about all of the things in store for you and ahead of you is so exciting! May your adventure during your 18th year bring you more than you ever dreamed!

Love you Bigger than the Sky!

Mom

It's the Little things...that add up to Big things...

It's the daily stuff that makes a marriage work. Getting a way to grab a coffee at Starbucks; walking the aisles at Sam's Club or Costco and only coming out of there with a package of Charmin toilet paper; going to get frozen yogurt just because it sounds good. Dates don't have to be planned or cost  a lot of money. They do take time! Spending time together in small ways adds up to big results along the marriage journey.

Allowing our kids to see their parents truly enjoy being together and living life together is one of the best gifts we can give them. Our jobs, homes, cars and friends will come and go but the steadfast faithfulness we show each other in our marriage will transfer into a legacy we can leave to our children and grand-children. 

Our kids need to see us "in love" with each other. The world offers such a tainted view of love. Everyday we read about some supposedly famous couple "calling it quits." When we stop to think about it...there are very few who "choose" to stick it out and make "it" work. All of a sudden those who we view as "famous" are suddenly not so famous to us anymore. I am sometimes surprised at how I am surprised when I hear of a marriage that has broken. A broken marriage usually starts showing signs with the "little" things. 

It is when we ignore the "little" things that they grow into "big" things. 

May God bring breath new life into your marriage! 

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

—1 Peter 2:25-3:2, 3:7 

Yikes! Where has the time gone?

What comes to mind is how fast time goes! I mean can you believe it is October? We are in the last few months of 2010. My mind is trying to wrap around the year and think about what God has been up too in my life thus far. When I take time to think about it he has been up too a lot! He has been orchestrating my days each and everyone of them. I can feel Him with me everyday!

The biggest thing that stands out to me is how much I have learned and realized that this world is not our home.  We are not supposed to get so attached to things. Things are not eternal. Things are only TEMPORARY! Things will never satisfy. Our security is in the Lord, not in our savings, not in our home, not in our jobs, not in our family, not in our friends and for sure not in our THINGS!

When we free ourselves up from the ways of this world we are so much freer to really live! To explore and become more and more amazed at how much God loves us and cares about us. He wants us to share that with others. It's not meant to be kept ourselves.

So I say all of this to say: "Don't worry about tomorrow because tomorrow has enough cares of it's own." But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."
Matthew 6: 33&34

"Get Me There" music video is coming Friday, Sept. 17th!

Thought it would be fun to share this link...with my blogging friends. My sons' Chase and Landon and their friends Cash Lewis aka Winston Johnson & Chris True have worked on this project are excited to share it with family and friends! Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbdAPVTYSLk