Today's Grab Bag of Thoughts

Just a Super Handy List of All Free Museum Days in Los Angeles (thanks We :-) Like LA ) Museums in Los Angeles That Are Always Free Annenberg Space for Photography Armory Center for the Arts Automobile Driving Museum  (technically free, though they will solicit a $5 donation) California African American Museum California Science Center Chinese American Museum Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum ESMoA FIDM Museum & Galleries Fowler Museum at UCLA Getty Villa Griffith Observatory Hammer Museum at UCLA J. Paul Getty Museum LAFD Museum in Hollywood (open only Saturdays 10am-4pm) LA Plaza de Culture y Artes LAX Flight Path Learning Center Los Angeles County Museum of Art (free after 3pm on Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri if you’re an L.A. County resident) Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Madrona Marsh Preserve Nethercutt Museum Santa Monica Museum of Art ($5 suggested donation) Torrance Art Museum Travel Town Museum UCLA Meteorite Gallery USC Fisher Museum of Art ...

This weekend I spent Friday through Sunday in the mountains of creatline with hundreds of sisters in Christ. Thousand Pines Christian Camp brought us all together to discover and discuss the Art of Balance, life with Jesus in an unbalanced world. Matthew 6:25-34.  The air was crisp, clear and so fresh as I start my Saturday walking through the pines and singing a praise song on my way to breakfast, when I realized I was starting to get a headache. No biggie, normally so I just try to put this behind me.  I ate, drank coffee and kept going.   As the day progressed, I kept going with the activities: chapel, off roading, archery, a nap in the sun and great conversation with old friends.  Though I continued through the day, I was not only pushing my headache aside I was pushing my fears and current "issues" aside in the effort to focus on God and what he wants to show me.  Every hour crept by and every hour the headache was getting worse. By dinner time, I could tel...

I'm not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TV, but I am very certain that when a teenager is struggling with his emotions you don't play the I'm gonna be an asshole game and point out the raw obvious facts of his actions.  His girlfriend is in the hospital and the Drs have still having a hard time figuring out all that is wrong with her. His mother, who is now dead, had a lot of dr uncertainty around her illness and how to help her.  His new mom if suffering on the outside from some unknown illness and he's worried about her too   You don't look at this kid and say "Does your hurting and depression help her get better?" You don't tell him that "other student learning is being impaired by his sadness" and you sure as heck don't make a 14 yr old boy do breathing games if they don't help him.  Hard love doesn't work on this type of kid. But hey what do I know....I'm not a psychiatrist...I'm only his mom.  Why not just ask s...

I just love this post, so much I wanted to share with you all- post from Faithgateway .  Some call him Sinterklaas. Others Pere Noel or Papa Noel. He’s been known as Hoteiosho, Sonnerklaas, Father Christmas, Jelly Belly, and to most English speakers, Santa Claus. His original name was Nicholas, which means victorious. He was born in AD 280 in what is now Turkey. He was orphaned at age nine when his parents died of a plague. Though many would think Santa majored in toy making and minored in marketing, actually the original Nicholas studied Greek philosophy and Christian doctrine. He was honored by the Catholic church by being named Bishop of Myra in the early fourth century. He held the post until his death on December 6, 343. History recognized him as a saint, but in the third century he was a bit of a troublemaker. He was twice jailed, once by the Emperor Diocletian for religious reasons, the other for slugging a fellow b...

At the day, I am reflecting on how often we don't see God in our lives but he's always there and has been. As I currently find myself the mother of two ADHD kids,  I look back and NOW see clearly why things have happened as they did.  If I never left advertising for teaching, I would have some of the knowledge I have on ADHD, Autism or Learning Disabilities.  I wanted to help families become advocates for their kids. To help them find better ways to relate, teach and understand how differently their child's brain works.  Now I am that parent struggling to give their child the best foundation they can without giving them the negative repetitive voices in their heads saying they are just bad, always make bad decisions, needs to control themselves. I opened a box of books today and there on top was a college text book on ADHD.  God, I love how you weave the web of my life together daily. 

Today my bible study was about worrying.  Few of us worry a little but many of us worry Daily, hourly even by the minute.  But why? What will it help?  Does it makes us feel better?  Can we stop?  I'm not saying that the following will help you stop worrying, but maybe as you start to worry you'll hear these words In your head and worry less .  Four Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Worry Worry is essentially a control issue. It’s trying to control the uncontrollable. We can’t control the economy, so we worry about the economy. We can’t control our children, so we worry about our children. We can’t control the future, so we worry about the future. But worry never solves anything! It’s stewing without doing. Jesus actually gives four reasons you don’t need to worry in his Sermon on the Mount. 1. Worry is unreasonable.  Matthew 6:25 says, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life mor...