"When you know how to die you know how to live" ~Morrie Schwartz

ummmmm....just thinking....... ;) 

~Years ago people took time to prepare for their burial... one way was to build their own coffin....so in this thought...I'm thinking~~~

 ~If we could write our own funeral sermon what would we write. I was thinking about how we sometimes put our funeral sermons in the hands of... at times someone who doesn't know us too deeply.   

~So what if we were to write our own sermon what would we say.....well my thinking started with what I would not say....I would not say any personal goodbyes....for I would for sure mess that up....like forgetting someone.... or it would be too intense...so just leave the whole personal goodbyes....out of the sermon. 

~But really...it has trigger my thoughts to what would I actually write....which I think I could spend the rest of my life writing....and revising. 

~Build-your-own-coffin~

~~~Soul Surfer~~~

Just watched the movie...and in thought...

I find myself thinking~

Could we all have a story to tell?

Of how a part of us was taken in an attack?

...And how through much pain we~

have to learn to accept~

and learn how to live again~

We may not be able to do things as easy...

...but are we willing to try...

…..to learn...

…......no matter how much harder....

…..........are we willing...

~to not quit or avoid~

…......are we willing...

~to train to become strong~

…..are we willing...

~to tell our minds that we can.

For even though we have the scars...

..that make normal life a bit difficult.

We have the ability to continue to live

….it may take many challenging battles...

…....and in knowing that....

…..........let the battles begin.

For without the fight...

….we are left life-less.

In the fight for life...

...the support of people carrying

the wounded girl to a place

to stop the bleeding.

….the support of family & friends

for the sake of love...

not knowing what to do

….yet....

learning along the way.

...the support of self

to make choices

to bring our-self to train

to surf/live again.

So in closing thought...

We do not come to this competition to win,

For it's okay...

Because we came to ~LIVE~

~Nothing Else Matters~

In all that is....said or done....

...My focus on this journey.....So close....no matter how far....

I never opened myself this way

Life is ours, we live it our way

All these words...I don't just say

Trust I seek and I find in “Him”

A mind for a different view....

And nothing else matters!

~~Frustrating~~

"""""""" I """"""""

“Never cared for what they do...

Never cared for what they know

Never cared for things they say...

Never cared for games they play!..

And I know”

nothing else matters....

~~~~~~~for~~~~~~~

Trust I seek and I find in “Him”

Forever trusting who we are “in Him”

…..And Nothing Else Matters!!!!

I Need To Take Myself Higher....!

~I am challenge to fight the battles going on within my mind. My mind wants to wonder to all those situations that are bringing me down. Yet, I look to God and say "I need to stay focus on... only You" In Philippians 4:8 I am reminded to think on these things~

Philippians 4:8 (The Message)

^8-9Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

~So I challenge my mind with this and even get interrupted with the thoughts that are upsetting me and (STOP)... myself... say as I am talking to Him... "God"... "Help me to stay focus!" and take my thoughts captive to this verse once again. Even in the midst of captivating my thoughts I find my body shaky for the challenges of my journey these past 3 weeks and up to this moment have taken me on a roller coaster of thoughts and emotions. Now I find myself writing this so maybe as I put down in ink some of my reflections along this journey... I can create and look at this like a part of the map.... that as I find myself feeling lost or controlled by the strong winds that seem to take me adrift... I can once again read this and set my course. In Mark 10:27 I am reminded that "With Me" this part of my journey ~is~ impossible...but "With God" to walk through this darken, wilderness ~is~ possible. ~and~ I am not to worry for like Matt. 6:27....can I even add anything to my life through worry...? So in Philip 4:6 I am not to worry... instead ~

Philippians 4:6 (The Message)

^6-7Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

~hum.... Christ displaces worry at the center of my life.... Just like in my mind Philippians 4:8 says I can think of positives instead of negatives... By shaping my worries into prayers... He displaces the worry at the center of my life...I no longer have a sense of worry....but a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good...will come and settle me down. I should reflect to this verse as a reminder of God's direction when Ronnie says.... "Terrie calm down"... this verse would be the direction to know how to calm down... for in myself to find calm is not so easy at times, but to take all my worries into prayers, to let God know my concerns... that is the path to take to find myself once again in that beautiful field of wild flowers with the warmth of the sun comforting my achy body and all I can do is to look up for His yoke is easy and His burden is light... I look up and smile as I say to Him... "life is good"

So I am on a journey and find myself on paths that are steep...rocky...cold and dark...I feel lost...I stop pull out the map and look at the roads...find a sense of direction...get caught up in my mind the couple turns I need to take...and press on in my journey...and believe I will find my way out of here!

~Fight The Good Fight~

~and take yourself to higher places~