and then there was love…..

love is the emotion that we all knock ourselves out looking for. i know i spent a huge part of my life looking for it and you knnow what? i found it when i wasn’t looking for it. ironic huh? people cannot survive without love it is the one thing we all need. so for those who are ssearching guess who you are really searching for? i’ll give you a little hint …God is love… find Him and you’ve found love

blessings

God’s Blessings to all who stop by to read this! I just want to take  a few minutes to share with you all a little bit of the happiness that i liven in. God blesses us all in the ways that we need when we need them. Each of us have to stop and take a moment, a minute, an hour or a day to FIND what He has in store for us. Remember my philosophy: Live each moment to it’s fullest: Love each person in your life with all of your heart; Laugh no matter what gets thrown at you.

Love to all of you,

Mawgilynne

new love, new life but don’t forget the past

It was recently brought to my attention that i needed to update my posts so that others can see that there is life after death and dying. I didn’t die but my old life did. People, including myself, tend to believe that there is no life after death, in this case the death of a spouse. What we continue to not factor into the equation is God. He is NEVER limited on what He can bring into our lives. I have found that i have a tendency to put limits where there are none and to expect only the bad in life not the good. Thankfully for me the Lord in His infinite wisdom does NOT need my input, even when it is my life. He has things well under control and anything i might try to put in is decidely redundant.

To bring understanding into this let me explain. I had decided that i was going to be single and alone for the rest of my life and that was how it was going to be. I didn’t consider two things. 1) I gave my life to Jesus Christ a long time ago, so it is His2) He then can do as He pleases with it. He didn’t see me all alone for the rest of my life. Instead He brought the most wonderful man into my life. Someone who loves and respects me! Someone who believes me beautiful even when my nose is all red from blowing it so much from a cold. Someone who sees beauty where i see lines and wide hips. I am very thankful that i gave Christ my pitiful life and i am very thankful that He sees me through His eyes and no one elses. Yes i have had a hard year but Jesus has taken the ashes and is bringing about beauty. He sees thing through the eyes of love and not judgement. Have all of the decisions i’ve made this past year been the best no not by a long shot but then i am just a human being and not God.

My New Years resolution? To let God be God with no help from me and to let this wonderful man He sent so deeply into my heart that we can not be seperated!

So love, laugh and live to the fullest for you don’t know when it will be over.

how did i get so blessed?

I sit here writing this and i have to ask myself “how did i get so blessed?” I look at myself and i wonder what do others see when they look at me, at my life. Do they see my failures and my insecurities? Do they think of all the things that have shaped me into who i am today? Do they really take the time to consider what is going in my life and why i am making the choices that i am? Do they think i am in “charge” of my own happiness for the first time in my life? or

Do they see what they want to see? Do they jump in with their own opinions on my life and find me lacking? Do they see someone who is right on the verge of being who they want to be without counting the cost for a change.  For once in my life i can step back and not see what others think of me or worry about being who or what someone else wants me to be. I am happy to be who i am and i am truly enjoying the journey to finding out who that is. I spent too much of my life trying to fit into the mold of what other people wanted me to be instead of being who i really am. Good or bad, right or wrong, for once i feel free to be me.

Mawgilynne

my opinion on life, love, and laughter

My opinion on life is that just when you think you have it all figured out you find out that you don’t. I thought my life was going to be dull and gray for the rest of time but Jesus stepped in and turned my gray days into days that are full of laughter and joy again. I know i have always said that you can’t depend on other people for your happiness but you sure can let them take you to new levels!!!

My opinion on love is that when it comes into your life reach out and grab it with both hands. I keep saying i don’t believe in forever kind of love but i would REALLY like to have my mind changed!  You know what i mean? I guess that is the $1,000,000.00 question: is love forever and how do you know? I have found that sometimes you don’t expect to find the real thing and then BAM there it is right in front of you! I wonder how it would feel to really believe in forever? Maybe, just maybe, i’m going to get to find out!!!!!

My opinion on laughter is that it is the best thing around! ESPECIALLY when you get to share it with the ones you love and who love you. Laughter heals all wounds. Laughter relaxes you and fills your heart to overflowing. I plan to laugh a lot.

Okay so in closing let me say I plan to love with all of my heart, i plan to live life to ot’s fullest, and i plan to laugh no matter what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mawgilynne

i’m so excited

I just want to say that sometimes you get a second chance at happiness and when you do you should reach out with both hands and grab it. Don’t think about how, what, when, where, or why be like Nike and Just do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To that special someone in my life thank you and i ;love you!!

happiness is essential

Happiness is essential to life that is something that i have recently discovered. I have also discovered that you can’t let your happiness ride on someone else making you happy it is something that you have to find within yourself. So my advice to myself and others would be to find the person you want to share life with and then go for it. don’t let other people judge you or try to make you conform to what they want for you or think you need to make you happy. Find it for yourself.

I have a very special man that has been added to my life. For the first time in a long time I feel like God is really smiling down on me, not because He has given me everything i desire but because He has shown the most important things. I never thought i would love again and now i have to ask myself if i even knew love before. Sometimes life throws you curve balls and sometimes you are lucky enough to hit a home run. Me? Well i just managed to hit one over the fence!

friends

I am writing this to all of the people who are my friends. You are all so very special. You mean more to me than i can ever say to you or show you. You let me be myself and you love me flaws and all. Sometimes that is the best gift we can give.

When i’m down you pick me up, when i’m happy (and silly) you share the insanity that is my sense of humor, when i hurt you hurt with me. I am so thankful God put you all in my life and i never want to lose even one of you.

Mom your title says it all. We share the most special bond a mother and daughter could ever share: friends. You always tell it to me straight, even when you don’t agree with me. I appreciate you for that.(most of the time anyway) You love me with that love that only your mother has for you and it is the strongest most sacred love a child can ever have. It’s unconditional. So thank you and please don’t ever stop!

Belinda and Naomi you two share the most special of places, you are my very best friends. I don’t know what i would do without either of you. You two know my deepest secrets and my biggest fears and yet you both go up in arms to help me slay the dragons in my life. There have been some big ones haven’t there? Thank you and please don’t ever stop!

Angelina you are friend on a level of it’s own. When God is ready and we are all in place you will step into a position of power and authority in the Spirit. Keep getting yourself ready and let Him season and prepare you as only He can. Know that i love you and through Christ and His Holy Spirit i trust you.

Hiram my jealous man!!!! hahahahaha! You have a sweet spirit in you that is just waiting for Jesus to show it the way out. When you come into full agreement with your destiny in Christ you will take the church world by storm! That my friend as they say is “thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel”

To you all I love you

Sherri

more things to be thankful for

Well I’m just sitting here thinking about the Lord and all He has done for me and you know what? He has done so much but so many times i listen to what others try to tell me to do instead of just listening to the source. I do not blame other people for trying to tell me what to do as this ios just human nature. I do however blame myself for letting the opinions and ideas of other people drag me down. U know Jesus didn’t come here to find perfect people, He knew we would never acheive that this side of heaven and He also knew we couldn’t do it without Him.

I think of the words of the Psalmist David when his back was against the wall (figuratively speaking) and he said “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence comest my help”. David knew to always look up. That is what i am going to try to do also.

Mawgilynne

thank you God for your peace

Thank you God for your peace that passes all understanding. I try to understand Your peace and love but i am too limited. You are all things to me. I truly appreciate all You do and all that You are. You are so much more than a mere human can understand and fathom. In Your word you talk about the depth and the breadth of things and that makes me feel so safe and comforted. It shows me Your love and protection. I love you Lord now and for always.

Love,

Mawgilynne