Your anchor or your sail?

I was playing a game on pogo and came across a religious room, even though I didn't know there were those on there. I'll have to go back to this room because it was very uplifting for my downcast soul. It seems we have been living under this grey raincloud for quite a long time. It must have started about mid-summer last year and the more we did to try to get out of it, the more dirt it seemed you dug out of our pit.

Deep into the pit we have sat for nearly 6 months--trying to get out of it. I wouldn't say we are dirt-free yet, but I think we can again see how to climb out of this hole.

So while I was playing this game, they were talking about God's blessings. It made me think about the difference between being an anchor and a sail. Is God your anchor or your sail?

If you believe God is your anchor and is holding you in one place, how will you grow and move towards him? I guess you could believe that by staying in one place you are grounded and not moving is a good thing. However, anchors are useless on dry ground, and if you are in the water --you are moving even if the anchor is trying to hold you to one place.

Isn't it better to let God be your sail? I'd love to feel his breath against my sails moving me in the right direction. Although it seems at times, all you see is gray skies and rain and don't raise your sails in such bad weather so you loose the chance to move out of the bad weather.

I have been living in the rain clouds and have seemed to be anchored to some terrible problems. We need to believe that God will supply our needs to overcome out of our financial burdens and uplift us to higher ground. It looks dark in a pit, but we must have hope that the sun is shining somewhere even if we are chin-high in water.

So who is your anchor and who is your sail?

**s**

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C. givens quote

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J. on Success

Quote from Quotations Book

Sail away into the sunshine

Do you know those people who seem stuck on pause when life is rushing past them? Why do they sit there waiting on life to happen instead of being a part of the flow of life?

I have so many of these people in my life I wouldn't/couldn't begin to name them all here, so pick which one you think I am talking about for this blog. My hopes are that everyone lives to their fullest potential. As a Mom now I am totally worries about my own kids living to their potentials as Rachel would rather just slide through life. Frills are wasted on her, as she does not care either way if she has it or not.

I've noticed that I am motivated by those that are stuck in the mud. Instead of stopping by to try to help them, it seems that I am energized by their lack of enthusiam to reach for the stars. I am more likely to stretch higher after hearing the sad sob stories of those with stories of laziness standing in the ways of accomplishing great things.

Where is your talent? Why aren't you using it? It seems that I dabble in so much because I don't have enough time to do everything that I would like to accomplish. I said today if I didn't have to sleep, imagine what I would accomplish. I need about 10 hours of sleep in order to feel fully functioning so my awake time usually is cluttered with things to do. I love being up at night as I know the kids are in bed sleeping, the phone isn't ringing, there is no one ringing the doorbell, and the city is safe and quiet. Besides the one street light I can see from my window off in the distance, it is completely dark outside and I can only hear the rain hitting the paved street.

So this is to remind those that are sitting on their hands, wishing that I'd sit on mine too. It's not going to happen, no matter how jealous you are of my success....they are going to continue.

Watch me as I sail away into the sunshine, build onto my house in paradise, and someday dance barefoot on the streets of gold.........

**s**

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College Homework

Last night I was asked why I bother going to college since I don't work outside of the home. Beside this being a slap in the face, and really feeling like a complete failure for the second it was said...I answered that I do work and that my skills are valuable even if they are not visible to the stupid people that are standing in front of me accusing me.

So today, I sit here doing my homework...today's topic is STRESS and WORRY. I go to college because I feel called to do so. If you believe in God, or not...I have a purpose to fulfill in this life, and as long as I breathe breath I am going to work on accomplishing that goal.

So back to my homework...STRESS. If you don't have stress you must be pulse-less and cold. I find myself working on this paper and the first verses that come to mind include searching the Book of Matthew. He's always been one of my favorites as gnashing of teeth sounds so harsh, but it's one of his catch phrases. "gnash, gnash!"

"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34 (NASB)

If only life was that easy, Matt! Well, it isn't for me. I always worry about today, tomorrow and then the next day. Then there is the future...and all the other things I cannot control that I include on my worry list.

Do you wonder why I am not in college? It's safe and easily metered for success.

A few quotes on stress that were cool were:

"In order to feel the worth of an anchor, you must feel the stress of the storm." –author unknown

"desserts spelled backwards is stressed!" -author unknown (but it sounds like Garfield).

Amazing that everything I write on this blog is dealing with potential, maybe this is the lesson that I am suppose to overcome (or learn) this year.

Also every assignment in my leadership class revolves around my Bible knowledge and my basic knowledge of life.

What am l writing yet? Well, I am sure I'll come up with something creative to add to the boring group posts that I have to read.

Yeah--I live to be stressed. But I do accomplish a lot by stressing :)

PEACE!
**s**

Happy New Years -2008 Resolutions

Another year---another set of resolutions.
This year I decided to keep them rather simple.
Instead of thinking I can accomplish the world---I want to achieve more from organization and consistency instead of trying to do more.

Here are my resolutions:

This year I'd like to

1) stay up on my homework so that I am not doing it right before it's due.

2) try to stay organized.

3) do more chores--daily so that it doesn't pile up on me.

4) cut down on drinking soda--watch my sugars. Maybe that will help overall in my quest to be skinny.

5) spend more time doing crafts and other me time projects. I miss the crafty side of myself that has been lost with kids and college taking over my life.

6) try to blog more/write more letters to friends.

7) rid myself of my Avon inventory. I have a ton of stuff waiting for a home....it's got to go away.

:) that's about it.

what's your's?