honor your spouse....

CALLING ALL COUPLES!!!!
I found out about a giveaway on JRU Studio's Blog today - go to her website to read about Union28, a company that helps you honor your spouse.  

Remind Self - Live OUT LOUD

I stopped by a favorite Blog this week, written by Jill.  She always inspires with such truth and passion for living which you can experience HERE.   In one of her posts she shared this same video, and I have heard the song many times but never REALLY listened to it (know what I mean?)....  Today the words just hit me - WHAM - what am I waiting for?  have you ever felt like that?   Today is unwritten    hmmmmmmmmmmm   it's never too late.  I don't know maybe you won't feel it like I was meant to today but I'm including it here - just in case you need to hear it too....Like Jill said on her Blog ...just wanna dance!

Please do yourself a favor ........

I follow a Blog called "a girl and her brush" which you can visit HERE for her story. 

She hit me square in the HEART today.......when I saw this on her Blog

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I hope you enjoy reading her post as much as I did, and I hope you will leave her a comment and tell her what you think.  Oh yes, of course I would love it if you came back and told me what you  thought as well - ENJOY.

ENJOY enJOY - do you?

I made a new friend this summer, her name is Elizabeth and I want to share her with you.  She's living in Puerto Rico, and she's FULL of energy, love and kindness - and she'll tell you about really ENJOYING THE RIDE.  I think we all know this long ride is going to get bumpy, rough at times, scary, unpredictable and there will be curves in the road we were not expecting.  So how do we ENJOY it all??

"Finding Connections" is by Elizabeth, I think you'll enjoy her work which she sells on Etsy.  She would be  thrilled if you stopped by her Blog and read it for yourself, and feel free to leave a comment for her letting her know how it affected your ride.  I'm going to post  today my favorite part which is like an affirmation for me, almost a prayer to repeat daily and I sure hope you enJOY it as much as I did.  Oh by the way, I love comments too ;-)  

“Enjoying the Ride” is a decision. We have to face it, to embrace it, to work on it, to practice it, to make it a habit, to believe in it, to have faith in it. Most of the religions have an answer for this approach. The one that I know best has Jesus words written in the Bible: “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” And I strongly believe that we can do that, too. We can change our attitude toward everything in our life and manage to Enjoy the Ride through this amazing but yet difficult journey we are in. I can write a long book on this theme, but this is not the time or place. I have many, many experiences lived that can prove that changing the attitude, being grateful, forgiving, embracing each moment, seeing the cup half full instead of half empty, loving one another, being understanding, being kind, being honest, being brave will get one to Enjoy the Ride. I read once that we have the responsibility of being happy, to smile at others so we can help others to be happy, and Enjoy the Ride. In the movie “Patch Adams”, the character said: “The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up!” ~ Patch Adams

I have this motto in my life and I try hard to never forget: a minute you dedicate to negative thinking, to hate, to complain, to suffer, to envy, to judge, to condemn, to make fun of others, to be angry and stay that way …..it is a minute lost, and that minute will never get back. It is my duty and my responsibility to get to Enjoy the Ride!

The Beginning

Well, I did it! I had put off taking out my new computer and loading/setting it up even though I could barely do anything anymore on my laptop with little or no memory left. Something always goes wrong when I try to update, load new software or anything techie so this was BIG (like uh it's the operator, you think?). But I had been to B & N to check out the new "Artful Blogging" by Somerset, and WOW was I inspired. I read several articles about how their life had challenges too and they didn't know what to do first, were not experts but found a wonderful population of generous, helpful, gifted and like-minded individuals willing to share, support and help. I have purchased the publication before but this one spoke to me ;-) So here I am!!

My goal is to put photos showing my creative side, and express my real self! I'm so excited and can't wait to interact and see all the other blogs out there. Who knows where this might lead? So...my first challenge is to figure out how to "dress up" my blog with pyzam??? I'm off to the tutorials and video library. Thanks for being there ~~