Back.....

I could go on about the fact that it has been FOREVER since I have blogged.


I have missed it.  I missed the cataloging of what my people are doing and how I feel about things.
I missed the therapy of writting my thoughts down.  The idea that what I am sharing just might be helping someone, entertaining them, lifting them up or perhaps filling a void of somekind.

So...lament I will not...... NOPE I will just jump into where I am at and not look back.

Georgia!!

We moved!

Hubby has taken a great new opportunity and we jumped on it.
Am I sad that I left Virginia??
Hummmmmmmmm? NOPE!  Not one second of it.  I did not like Virginia!  There it is out there.
My sisters know it.  They had to deal with me through it.  I was not all that nice to be around in The Old Dominion.  MUAHHHHHHH!


Virginia was however an incredible proving ground for me.  You know what I mean by "proving ground"?  The place where things are tested....fortified...get the kinks worked out.  That was Virginia.

I HAD to learn to be happy and to find JOY!  Not the fake kind.  I am talking about the James kind of JOY.  The "Call it all Joy!' kind of thinking.  When you are in a place you dont like you can and do make yourself and everyone else around you miserable.  I did this.   I shut down.  I lived in Phillipians. I was the pitty pitty me girl.  An.....I got called out.  My sisters called me out.  My friends that I had met were and are incredible.  They listened to me and told me I was angry.  They showed up when I wouldnt answer the phone.  They were persistent.  I love them for it!   I had to look deep....very deep into what I was doing by CHOOSING to be miserable.  Because thats what it was...a CHOICE!
Mine  ....   all mine.... to choose.... to decide... to smile.... to laugh..... to be joyfull.  To fake it until I could make it.  To trust!   YES... to trust that God had me. ......God was using me in Virginia.  God was giving me the choice.  I have to admit I choose very poorly at first.  Eventually I did come around.  Not enought to say I would move back, but around enough to enbrace the people around me.
oxxoxoxox

.............................never look back.