Refresheded

Does anyone else ever have that feeling of being completely used up by the outside world? So many times my emotions, thoughts and physical state of being are drained. It doesn't really matter why that happens, but rather what do I do to fix it?
Water, glorious water and lots of it is the key to becoming refreshed. I know that sounds so weird, right? No not in the sense that when I feel over rout by a life that requires so much of me. So, I love to swim. Yes, that's right I said swim. Somehow just being in a pool of water refreshes my soul.
I find myself feeling like I'm the only person around and the water is my security blanket. It calms me, allows me to drift peacefully without any effort. I dream of the thousands of thing that I still want to do all the while watching the birds swoop and soar as though the had not a care in the world. Feeling their freedom also allows me to let go of the tension and the tiredness that creeps into every crack of my being .It's as if for those sweet moments I too can fly, except in truth I'm floating on top of the water. There in my own private pool in backyard I look up at the blue sky, making funny faces and pictures out of the clouds floating across the bluest of blues I've ever seen.
Funny how just being in my own pool, feeling peaceful, calm and so relaxed I am refreshed. All is right with the world, me and my life. How easy I once again take a deep breath and let it all go. Knowing that my sense of balance is regained, I have hope that whatever comes I can deal with it and especially understanding that as always God has given me a little respite from what seemed overwhelming circumstances.
Life isn't always easy and at times it presents challenges that almost can tilt the balance of who we are as a person, but always with a little practice, lots of water to refresh my moments and a awesome God to guide me through whatever"it" is, I am healed and most especially refreshed.
Now that's a life worth living. Have you refreshed your soul today?

Striving forward

Sometimes I am so overwhelmed by life that I can barely move forward. It takes all of the energy that I can summon up just to make it through most days. But when I think that I can't go on, never take another step, thinking that I've endured all that I possibly am able to, somehow my spirit surges with a renewed strength. Far down inside of my eternal being is a place where my surviving self lives. It's a quiet place that holds that extra strength that I call on when I am beyond weary. Taking a deep breath, relaxing and letting go of whatever the stress is that weighs me down I push backs against the negativity that surrounds me.
Striving forward isn't an easy thing to do these days. We carry so much on our shoulders mostly knowing that there's no place to lay it all down at the end of our day. Deep down inside the belief that we can push back against all that weight is how we win our spirits back.
Strive to find the best in people, to see their goodness and look beyond that which is a negative force. All of that will only work to keep your soul heavy.Yes, I believe that always working to strive forward and bringing the hope of good, placing it at my feet will always win the day.
Is this an easy task? No, not in anyway, shape or form, but it is the better of solution. I would rather believe in my ability to strive forward than to think that the negative weight of the world will crush me. After all if I didn't believe in this idea I certainly wouldn't have live this long.
Once many years ago I was suppose to have died, but apparently that didn't happen. Even when the doctors kept telling that I would never survive my heart disease I was determined that God had saved me from death for his reasons alone. I never stop striving to move forward in my recovery.
That was 17 years ago, From where I sit, I look pretty good for a dead chick!! Now that's what I call striving forward.
Blessings are real, I should know, right?

I'm just saying

When I sit  here jotting my thoughts down as scrambled as they are I am always amazed to see how many people read my stuff. There is no way that I can possibly express how excited and certainly humbled I am that anyone would care about my feelings. Thank you to anyone and everyone that stop by here on this blog spot to read my words. I pray that in some way I can share what my heart feels and how my soul wants to touch all of those out there in the world wide web.
Being me on this site has helped healed my soul in so many ways, I am honored and blessed for all of your time that is spent reading just the words I write. May God in his many forms to all of us bless you each and everyday and give you great joy in your life. Writing is a passion, it opens every door that I chose to step through. Find your passion and smile, it will warm your heart and fill your soul.
I'm just saying......

Enough Said!!

Do I love my life? Of course not! Do I hate my life, no way. Now having said that, in all honesty life is not just a bitch, it's time that we share with one another. Other's before self  is the new golden rule for me. When I try to consider how I would like to see my life in review,  hoping that I have loved other's more than I love my own selfish being would be a great accomplishment.
"Love one another as I have loved you."
Enough said!