Tough Day Today

So glad to be back home and everything accomplished that needed to be done!  Thank you Jesus.

I thank you for answered prayer for my family.  Father, you are soooo good. Amen

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today my Red Hatters celebrated my birthday.  We went to a Tea House in Medina, Miss Molly's.  We had great food, great tea, good service and a shopping spree afterward in the gift shop.  It was a fun day.

Also got birthday greetings from family and an old friend.

Praying to Find a Lost Ring

I couldn't find my diamond ring.  I looked everywhere.  For several days I worried about it. I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to help me find it.  I kept looking and kept praying.  Today I found it tucked away in a travel case in my travel bag.  What a relief.

Things To Forgive

I've been remembering people who took advantage of me or took things from me- in elementary school, high school, college and in my grown up life.  So I have spent enough time remembering the mean girls and the mean guys and the things they did.  Today I will put all that behind me once and for all. God takes care of those things that concern me.

Actually, as I have grown up and attempt to be kind to people, some still take advantage and kinda flaunt it in my face, but God!  He has given me a good attitude about that.  If I have been cheated, lied to, etc., He makes me feel good inspite of what they have done.  It is just a way of knowing the people who mean you good and the ones who mean you evil.

Since not all the people represent God or have the Holy Spirit living in them, it allows me to discern the true from the false.  I can move on without hard feelings.  This is so freeing.

I'm in a situation now where money is involved, but God has made me feel very free about the loss.  I do not have to carry a grudge or unforgiveness.  I also do not have to be obliged to this person.  I don't owe them, they owe me.  So I don't have to plan anything with them and thought money may be lost, I know He will provide for me and also make up for what I have  lost.

Also, I can say no to people and not feel badly.

Red Hat Event a Success!

Everybody showed up!  All except our Pink Hatter. We had a great time.  It did not rain until the whole event was over and everyone was safely at home.  First, we had the cookout with my Vice Queen making the delicious hamburgers on the grill and putting the sandwiches together, complete with onions, tomatoes, lettuce and wonderful bakery buns.  Each hatter brought something.  I enjoyed the salads, especially the fruit salad.  The potato salad was good too. The fresh chips were so good it was hard to stop eating them.  The strawberry covered cream cheese cake was so, so good.  The sweet potato pie was delish.  And the best part was that the goodies were left for me afterwards.  So for days I enjoyed the eating.  So glad I only gained a couple of pounds.  :-)

The second part of the Red Hat event was an outing to the park to see the Shirelles.  One of the originals was there and she looked as gorgeous as the young ones.  That was fun.  It was very crowded so parking was a distance away and a long walk, but going back to the car we caught a ride.

Fireworks were the finale and they were beautiful.  It was so much fun and I am still enjoying my clean house.   Trying to keep it clean.  My daughter came over after and cleaned the guest bathroom for me since my son had left it in a mess and also came back again to carry some old computer stuff out to the curb.  I could only clean part of the bathroom and the tub/ shower area was purposely hidden behind a pretty new shower curtain.  Now it is all sparkly clean and the basement storage area cleared of most of the clutter.

I had a water issue in my basement and the Disaster Pro workmen finished that all up beautifully with Nationwide paying the bill.  It is so fresh and new and wonderful that I want to return to my basement office and do some work down there.  Would love to do Volunteer Coordinating again for a school system as an Independent Contractor.  That was a great ministry.  But, well, whatever God has in mind for me will be the thing that makes me the happiest.

So these last few days I have been enjoying not having anything in particular to do.  Some new events are coming up this month and next, and I will write about it here.