Connecting...and...Reflecting.

On this dreary gloomy day, I reflect on this broken day of Sept. 11. This day everyone is still talking about even ten years after the fact. Hearts are still broken by calamity and betrayal. People are still remembering and weeping and some have not come to grips with the broken connections that have ripped apart their families. Healing takes time and must begin with forgiveness, on purpose. Slowly they must rebuild their lives in the midst of their ever present pain and sad memories to get on with their lives.

I reflect and ruminate and tell myself as I meditate on all of this brokenness..that I should be most grateful for my family even if I don't always agree with everything they do or how they live their life. I talk to myself often, out loud. Something that most of us do but don't want to admit.

The wonderful fact is that they are still here and we can mend broken fences on purpose..Life is much too short to hold onto disagreements and past hurts. Do we really know how many moments we are given with each one of them yet we let everything else get in the way. Our time our money our plans include first of all us and we would all admit that the evils of our hearts are caused by selfishness and greed,,, the destroyers of life and connections with the ones we should be loving. How can we cut these two nasty things out of our lives??

Maybe, by making the choice to think before we leap and act. Those actions we take in our vengeance and anger and those words not chosen with care will follow us around with regret for many days and the bruises we inflict on ourselves when our own words condemn us are very hard to cure. No matter how many times we run to the freezer for ice packs and to stop the seeping flow of blood that slowly drains into the underground passages of our wounds we will still bleed.

There is a better way. The Way of the cross, the way of grace. Surrounded with supernatural love we can forgive ourselves, to rise again and hold our heads up and try again. Tomorrow is another day of new beginnings and the grace we have been shown is free to give away without cost to others. There is everything to gain by living life in this way. Regrets can be washed away..as the son comes out again.

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Hey, are we now connected...?

Computer stuff is still challenging but I am learning new and more every day and giving it a good effort.

blessings,,,

Can life ever get too full of good stuff?

Do you ever want to shout...put my friends on hold, put my blessings on hold and especially put my weight on hold...(that's a good one).

I have had the joy of meeting many wonderful people, especially in the past few weeks,that have similar interests and are creative in their own capacity....so of coarse, I just want to spend more time with them and get to know them and how they tick. Isn't life a balancing act full of daily boundaries, that we all need to set for ourselves? We want to visit our family and spend time with our friends and then of coarse do all those things we love to do , to the point where we feel worn down, tired out and cranky. So we need to put the brakes on and try the balancing act.

Sleep seems to be the last thing on my list and trying to live life to the fullest including sharing me with God who is always waiting patiently on the outskirts of my life keeps me challenged.

It is in Him that I move and create and it is through Him that I keep my balance on the scale of my messy life and it is through Him that I have the power to crawl out of bed each day, as I get older by the minute. When you are at the end of your rope, try God ,,,He will give you a breakthrough, better then any friend or family member can do for you.

blessings, my friends.

Be delightful.

In this cold, snapping winter time of the year, when spring has announced it's arrival but does not want to come, we just hang on. As rain and sleet pelts us when we just want to feel warm and sit by the fire-place, we try to imagine how the robins must feel. Maybe looking for worms under the snow and freezing their poor little feet is not what they wanted out of life but yet they hang on.

We know that a little sunshine brings new life and energy to our bones and our faces change from being grumpy to beaming beauties.

At times all of us need our spirits to be rescued from the drudgery of the cold grey that holds us captive and like the winter with it's frosty waves of ice we will eventually thaw out. Sometimes we need to sow a few good deeds for others and the sunshine of new love will warm our hearts enough to drive away the blues and make our little world bigger. Just like the robin, finally finding his nice juicy worm and calling his mate to share in his bounty; we can also become more content with our own lot in life when we focus on others rather then just little old me. Just because those rose colored glasses can become heavy when they stay on our noses too long...

From Glimmergirl to Metalmud...Still keeping the Shine.

Hello friends, For the sake of simplicity I have changed my blog name to metalmud blogspot..I really liked glimmergirl because shiny denotes jewelery arts of which I am so much part of but....if I need a reminder to write on my blog so....glimmergirl needs metalmud to kick her . I hate being kicked so glimmergirl has got to go back to whereever she came from and metalmud gets to stay. Hope that makes a little bit of sense. Life needs to be made less confusing. Thank-you for a little bit of input. It is encouraging to know that someone is taking the time to read this blog. It takes time and effort to reply. Hats off to you. I do love to hear comments and input once in a while. Art comments or just ...what grabs you in life of what makes your day. I hope that I can make someones day just by being an encourager. For so many out ther life is so intense and in many ways we all have too much on out plates. How can we scrape off a little and lighten the load? Hey maybe even sometimes around the belly.. Talking to myself completely..That takes will power and effort to be sure. I am still discovering that art goes hand in hand with wellness. We each have our own form of art that we like to pursue..Cooking is an art in itself that I seem to have less and less time for. However I have a very faithful husband who has taken up the slack for me and makes sure I eat.

Christmas Hope

..............Halloween is over, the candies are chewed and swallowed and digested. The decorations have been replaced by Christmas lights and the anticipation is beginning to tug at your heart strings.
What is on your agenda for Christmas? The season of joy and hope for some but sorrow, lonliness and fear for others.
Who will you decide to help this Christmas and whose life will you make brighter..Will you help the Salvaton Army ring in funds to help the less fortunate, will you fill a choe box and bring joy to a needy child or will you go shopping and buy yet another pair of shoes or another sweater and add it to a closet is brimming with more then you can wear.
Will you sort through those treasures and give something away to help a need.
There is still time, the season is just beginning.
Be creative, make a Christmas Card, sew some pj's for a little one, bake a chritmas cake or join a choir to bring the warmth of music with the good news of the birth of Jesus Christ. He is hope to a world looking for something lasting, something that is free, a hope to wipe away tears and lonliness from faces filled with pain. Call out to Him because He will never disappoint You because He is your Hope.