Why?

Bold Malibu...

So I was listening to the radio a while ago:  A mother had called in about her daughter who was having an affair with a married man and having his child to boot.  The daughter was also married and had previous children with her present husband.  This woman who I will call Bold Malibu did not see anything wrong with her behavior whatsoever...

I have to admit that I was appalled.  I am a woman but I don't think that her attitude was correct.  What was wrong with her?  I think most women would rather be the cherished wife rather than the other woman.  Think about it...  One man thinks you are special enough to marry whereas the other man thinks you are easy pickings.  I mean no brainer, right?  What was she thinking that she was doing the right thing in any way, shape, or form?  If I were this woman's husband then I would have just kicked her to the curb because even God allows divorce for this reason.

However God also chooses some people to be like Hosea.  Hosea married a prostitute.  Need I say more?  Each and every person who is in this situation has to choose how they would react in this situation.

Remember the story of the prodigal?  In each situation we are either the Father, the Runaway Son, or the Elder brother.  Which are you?  In some cases, Bold Malibu repents but in others she simply doesn't care...  The non-repentant Bold Malibu goes to hell...  And don't you think otherwise.  Unfortunately a good man can be ruined by a wicked woman and vice versa...  which is why we have so many broken people walking around looking for love or no strings...

Stuff...

Too Much of It!

Do you ever look at your stuff and wonder why you have so much stuff?  Why do you have it?  Do you even need it?  Sometimes I wonder...  And yet it takes effort to get rid of our stuff, doesn't it?  You sell some...  You donate some...  You give some of it away...  And some you just throw out...  And you still have too much stuff.  Maybe what I need is some wabi sabi...

Wild & Free

A Lot of Birds

One Cold Winter

One Hot Summer

Why is it we never get to experience spring and fall for very long?  Why is it that we go from hot to cold and cold to hot?  I long for a year where we can just prolong spring and fall...   And have a bite-size winter...  And of course there's the monsoon season...  Drip, drip, drip...  Then cascades of water pouring out of the sky...

Seven Seconds...

A Moment in Time

It only takes seven seconds to have an idea of what you think about a person whether it be good, bad, or ugly...  So how do you make a good first impression?  Can you believe that a hit or miss is just seven seconds away? 

Year of Jubilee

Rites of Passages

Sometimes in life you have to decide what the next step will be...  Sometimes in life you find yourself at a crossroads and you know it's time to make a momentous decision...  Sometimes in life you don't have a choice but to come to terms with reality...  Sometimes you realize that failure comes before success...  And tears before joy...  That's the way life is...  The good, bad, and the ugly all wrapped into what we call our life...  What are we told?  Don't worry about tomorrow...  Just go one day at a time...  That's all we can do...

SF Farewell Walk

Meandering Memories

A Friendly Passing...

Sad Day

Sometimes you hear of a friend's passing and feel sadness because you know you won't see them anymore.  However there is this life and there is an afterlife and what we see as an end is only the beginning for what they will be experiencing.  Are you ready when that happens?  When you no longer cease to exist on this earth as we know it?

Blossom Shades

A New Season

Life is Complicated...

Always & Forever

Sometimes in life we don't always get to go out with the one we want to or to marry the one you love...  Why?  Because other people and things get in the way...  Everyone has a secret agenda and if you are not privy to it you may never understand why things happen the way they do.  Sometimes they say not making a decision is actually a decision in itself.  I think if something is truly meant to happen then it will because ultimately God is bigger than us all however we still have free will.  God gave us free will for a reason...  because he wanted us to choose where we really want to be...  Whether it be heaven or hell it is your choice to go where you want.  Sometimes it's hard to see loved ones go where you won't go but it was their choice to be there and that is a decision everyone must choose for themselves.  You can't make that choice for them.  I hope you choose wisely... 

There is a book called The Shack with a segment involving a dialogue between Wisdom and Mack.  Wisdom asks Mack to choose which of his children go to heaven or hell.  He tells Wisdom that he can't make a decision like that.  Well neither can God Wisdom replies.  It's true...  God loves us all whether we are good or bad but he can't choose which of us goes where.  So he gave us free will to choose...  wisely...  I hope...  I know the ones that choose what I choose I will see again in the afterlife however the ones that don't I know I will never see again once we pass.  It's difficult knowing this as there are people I care about that won't choose to go to heaven but it's something I can't force someone else to do. 

Blooming Flowers

Hello May!

Hubcap Bandit

Remember when...

My hubcap went missing?  Turns out it was not the snow.  It's actually a bunch of kids stealing them according to someone I recently talked to.  They pick a different item from a car to steal each year and this is the year of the hubcap.  I thought it was strange because a coworker of mine also lost a hubcap and then one day when I was at the store I noticed that others in the parking lot were also missing just one hubcap.  Well...  so now we know...  I thought it was odd that I have been driving for around three decades now and have never lost a hubcap before.  Hope you don't get targeted by the hubcap bandit!  :)

Windy Days

May Flowers

Have you soaked yourself in sunshine yet?  The days are getting warmer and the flowers are blooming...  What could be better than soaking up some sunshine?  Smell a flower or two?  Laze away in the sun?  Life is always better on the sunny side...  Enjoy!

In the Moment

Life Happens

You know you're in the moment when that is the only place you want to be...  If you think back on different moments in your life there are times when you are exactly where you want to be:  Person, place, or thing...  Then there are moments where you want to be anywhere else but...  that's just the way it goes..  Lonely is not being by yourself, lonely is missing a specific person...

Slice of Sunburst

Yellow Oranges