A Bit More Randomness...

So it's been a hot minute since I've posted.  I had started to put myself on a schedule and tried to ensure that I would be posting regularly...well.... as we can see - that didn't happen!  I've been struggling mightily with the death of my Dad and just have been trying to get through the daily process of living.  I've gone to 2 counseling sessions and I must say they have been pretty helpful.  Not in the sense of diagnosis, but in the sense of getting it out.. being able to voice my inner fears and doubts without anyone judging me.

WHEW.....enough already!!!

So back in the saddle again.  A few more random thoughts:

1.  My hunnee helped me download pics from my phone - since that's what I seem to take most of my pics with and now I have room for more.  Yaay me!!

2.  Still doing my OBS, even though I'm not participating online anymore, but the study itself is really helpful and very timely.

3.  Found a new app for my phone called Path and and its like more complete integration of Instagram, FB, Blogger, and Twitter.  I am in love with this app... I've kept my presence completely private and I have been able to upload all kinds of pics, thoughts, books, locations, everything that the other apps can do, I've been able to do... again ..I'M IN LOVE!!

4.  I learned a little bit of how to add text to one of my photos in the MS Paint program.    Kinda fun and frustrating at the same time.  Hopefully I can add the pic to this post. lol  Maybe I can add this as part of my online testimony... an ongoing segment called "photo verse."  Not completely convinced...I'll keep working on it.

Okay, off to post in Path... joy! I'll be back soon to share the verses God gave me during this season.

Abiding in Him,
   Tiff

Random Musings...

With so much going on today...well everyday. I just thought I would put down a few random thoughts that have been occupying me lately.

1.  Decided to watermark my photos moving forward, just because I've been reading a few posts lately that people have been stealing images from blogs and passing them off their own. Now I know that my pics are by no means theft worthy, however, I think I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.  And waaalaaa... I did ...yaaay!!

2.  Wanted to participate in the OBS blog hop today, yet somehow I felt myself being rushed to "post something" and I certainly did not want to post that here.  I really have a lot to say, and yet I'm still detemining the appropriate amount of transperancy that I should have on my blog.  So today is short and sweet and mindless.  Maybe tomorrow will be earth shattering, maybe not! Either way, I'm working on being Steadfast in the areas God has clearly given to me!!

3.  Being honest about "time sucks"!!! In the Let.It.Go. OBS Melissa wanted us to get real about what are tools, toys, or tangents ("time sucks") in our life.  Well, I have a couple.  These tangents (ts) have the ability to also affect how I feel and view myself and my life.   Pinterest is my #1 tangent.  I can easily lose myself looking at others' boards, admiring, contemplating, and then berating myself that I hardly ever really make anything that I pin.  My next tangent is my blog roll.  Again, I spend an inordinate amount of time reading, admiring, envying, coveting, berating myself and then feeling overwhelmed that I am not as good as...(insert what ever phase of life i'm focused on - i.e wife, mom, DIL, employee, boss, business owner, creative soul, etc).  It is all vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do:  and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no profit under the sun.
                                                                                          Ecclesiastes 2:11

     

So instead I'm not going to beat myself up, I'm going to take solace in the progress I'm making.  And here are two of the pics I caught of the sky as I was leaving my Kaiser appt today.  I absolutely love taking pics like these, they really speak to the majesty of the Lord and how we as humans attempt to imitate what He has already created.  It truly is God's Glory!!! AMEN!!

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good."
                                                                  Genesis 1:31

Abiding in Him.  
     Tiff

My Kryptonite

Kryptonite... that fictional element that could ultimately destroy Superman.  Superman...Superwoman... that's sometimes how I feel or rather how I think I should feel.  I feel like I need to do it all, be it all, become it all - just in order to to be a good wife, good mom, good daughter, friend, employee, manager, christian woman, etc, etc, etc.   

So what's my kryptonite??  My deep seated need (desire) to be "good."  However, the Bible says this about human goodness:

         "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."                                       

               Romans 3:12  

So where does this leave me?? Clinging to the Word of God, just where I should be. 

I'm truly in a strange place, a desolate place, an unfamiliar and uncomfortable place.   However, I do KNOW that searching God's Word (not for God, but in His Word) will ultimately shed light on my path.  I have no idea what I'm doing or when I might be out of the valley and on my way to the mountaintop... I just know that I need the Lord to do it.  I will continue to embrace my one word and look to Him for the healing and letting go of behavioral traits that are clearly not of Him.  To this end, I have started an Online Bible Study by Melissa Taylor called Let.It.Go. based on the book written by Karen Ehman.

I pray to stay faithful to this study by continuing to be Steadfast in and through the Lord and that I may use this space as another vehicle to show what the Lord is doing in me and through His Word.  

Abiding in Him, 

    Tiff

P.S. On Wednesday, I hope to reveal the verse God laid upon my heart  - to meditate upon throughout the year.