Today's Grab Bag of Thoughts

on my sisters 34th birthday I find myself ending the day like usual on her birthday or anniversary...lying in bed cuddling with a Nacho, crying, watching the slide show and now blogging.  (Slide show from the service-  https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10151493365525259&id=599790258  )  Lying here my mind starts to wander from s ome healthy logical questions to others not so, yet I wonder any way.  I wonder what a birthday party in Heaven looks like.  I wonder if everyone you've ever known goes or if it is just family? Does the big guy make an appearance?  Is the saying up there...it ain't over until the "big guy" sings?   Do you get gifts or because your are in heaven and you already have all you could want is their presence gift enough?  Can I get fireworks set off for my birthday every year in heaven? Did Stacy have a good day? Does she miss us? How does she deal with the extreme emotions she must be having being able to see us but never be with us? T

The artist Colbie Caillat has written not only a very powerful song but an amazing and very moving video.  So many times we are asked to be more than we are.  You don't look the part.  Everyone should be skinny.  You need to put make up on because you look tired. You need to be more sexy to get a man.  Change this, change that....but why?  God made each and everyone different and beautiful in every way.  We are the ones that take that pure beauty away from ourselves and each other.  Why?  Why do we glamorize skinny? Why not glamorize HEALTHY.  Good food choices, exercise and loving ourselves for who we are?  Life is way too short to worry about what other people think about you...it is more important that you love you.  We need to take hold of our lives and our children's lives and start love ourselves for who we are and loving others for who they are.  When will my daughter stop coming home and telling me someone called her fat? When will families stop talking about weight all

Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap. (1 Timothy 3:2-7 NIV)

Very early this morning I had the most vivid dream about a baby girl.  She was totally mine, birthed her and all.  She was gorgeous. Her smile melted my heart.  I even breast fed her in my dream.  I am telling you this was a life like dream.  Beautiful green/brown eyes, dark brown hair and all.  Even Alyssa loved her.  She said can we call her Sophia the first.  I said her name is just Sophia, but she is our first. Yes, there was a father in this dream...but he face was not as clear as the rest of ours.  OF COURSE. Hmmmm....Baby Sophia I can't wait it meet you some day.  Until then that time....I will just say I loved meeting you this morning.