Not Who I Use To Be

Why is it so hard to believe that people CAN change for the better.  We remember the hawt mess they were but forget the hawt messes we use to be?

" I Don't Wanna "....Grown and Pouting

We've all heard the saying, "there is someone out that who would to trade the problems they have for yours" or something like that. Any who, sometimes I just don't care to hear about what some else is going through, I just want to bask in my own issues and pout like an over grown kid. Am I wrong? Why yes of course I am but I'm also human. So that's when I know that I'm stepping out of God's will for my life. I pull my big girl britches up and ask God to forgive my selfishness and I extend myself to helping others the more.

Be An Ear

"Suffering in silence
Smiles that hide broken hearts
Pillows soaked with muffled sobs
...we all hide."

Regardless of how strong you believe yourself to be, sometimes you just need someone to just listen to your heart...not talk but just listen.
Not interject with whatever they're dealing with in their own life but just listen to YOU rant, rave, cry and even scream if you have to about YOU.

People, they're are so many hurting in silence but they're afraid to turn to you because they believe you won't value their heart, their experience.

#BeAnEar

Friend or Fiend???

According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, a friend is a person who you like being with as well as a person who helps or supports someone or something.

I'd like to go even further and suggest that a friend encourages, strengthens, builds and feeds life and newness into your character. They'd never allow you to go astray but if they saw that you were, they'd immediately bring you back to reality.

I think that sometimes the longing desire to have someone to call a friend, can cloud our judgment and we end up with a fiend instead. These people mean us no good, they plot against us and know our flaws only to use them against us,

What God says about friendship....

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 27:9 

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Sitting here, I'm thinking to myself just what kind of friend am I. Am I truly supportive and encouraging to them? Am I one that they can rely on no matter what? Will I pray for them? Could I offer brutal honesty to them when they're dead wrong?

What kind of friend are you?

Be the rainbow in some else's cloud.

   --- Dr. Maya Angelou

Love Letter to Monday

Dear Monday,


I was not looking forward to greeting you at 5 a.m. to begin our day. The crust still in their eyes, the 5 or 6 times I've called all of their names to wake them before they finally began to stir around. The rushing, the scrambling, forgetting of the snacks, a handwritten memo to a teacher, last minute medicine dosages, reminders of numerous bills to be paid...all before heading out the door.

Monday, you know what? One thing is for certain, I'm so glad we had the opportunity to open our eyes on this side, another chance to hug my babies and tell them "I love you" and another chance to pray over and with them.

Here's looking forward to the rest of the week!!

Always,

Chrystal

Complexities of the Heart

We ask for love to come into our lives but when it does.

We abandon it and then we're left in wonderment on why it has gone away.

Hopefully one day we'll get it all figured out.

The Heart of A Mother

I wrap my children in my arms
Embed them in my heart
So that when the storm is too much
And when there is no one else
That they can rely on.............
I am here.