What is IMPORTANT?

Sometimes I find myself going over many things in my mind. Past experiences, Past people who have entered and exited. Past hurts and such.

I began to realize that I draw what I think to me.

I am starting a new page in my life. I will begin to make a habit of being grateful for all of the things in life.
1. Bless those who despitefully use me... and abuse me. Who care less about me
than I realized.
2. Create safe and comfortable boundaries for my happiness.
3. Continue to tell my darling daughters that they are what they want to be and to
strive to be what they really want and expect good things always.
4. Thankful for answered prayers many years ago, with having one of the best
husbands in the world and I know lots say that but I truly mean it. I have an
honest man who is full of integrity and he is a very dependable human being to
which one of my prayers was answered for sure.
5. Don't sweat the small stuff.
6. God is wonderful and the universe is wonderful. I am expecting such great things
in my life and I am living as if I have all I want and need.
7. FAITH is the key to all abundance, joy and happiness.
8. Thankful for all who have passed through on my way to living my life.
9. Grateful for the lessons learned in the mistakes of the past, and the mistakes I
have made but looking to the future with a great sense of hope and happiness.
10. Ask and ye shall receive.
11. Knock and the door shall be opened.
12. SEEK and ye shall find.

Sometimes you wonder about those who are family in your lives and why it seems they choose others over you. How they don't seem to care to stay in touch with you even though you do try and why it seems you just don't matter much to them?
I now leave that with God and I am living each and every day being grateful to God for the day, the chance to enjoy it and each and every moment of the day. Because I am alive, I am grateful to be alive. I am here living a wonderful life with amazing blessings. I am grateful that GOD gave me the intuition I have and the ability to discern situations to which I can find a good path for us. The moving when everyone else said "ARE YOU CRAZY?... both to Alberta and back to NL.
God is the ruler of my life and he alone directs my path. I trust in that and when I trust in that and I strive to be better, it comes so easily to me.

BLESS THOSE WHO seem to forget about you.... Bless those who get wrapped up in their own lives and their own selves and forget about you.... BLESS those who need GOD and for those who need to wake up and be thankful for what they have and the health they have instead of looking at the dreary side of life.

THANK YOU for all of the blessings.
THANK YOU for my life.
THANK YOU for my ability to see, and hear and speak and think.
THANK YOU for my ability to walk and use my arms and legs.
THANK YOU for my children and my husband.
THANK YOU for family who care and who don't.

Thanks for this day and those to come.

FRIENDS FOR LIFE

Well, it's hard to believe that Ann, Jerry, Andrew and Jenna are back in Grande Prairie so soon. Time sure flies when you are enjoying it.

WE enjoyed having them stay with us for 6 days and we had a great time. Great food, Great Friends, Great time.

Ann & Jerry are now making plans to move back to NL. They are ready for the change and for the move home. Home is where the heart is... and I guess they're heart is here.

So now their excitement begins.
Jerry was offered a job right away and they are looking at all of the options and making their plans.

See ya soon...

FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE

Today our friends Ann, Jerry and their son Andrew and daughter Jenna will arrive for 6 days. They arrived in NL from Grande Prairie on June 24th and stayed two days with us and then headed out to visit with their families and friends.

I am very happy to see them again as they have been the best of friends to Kevin and me.

I first met Ann when I moved from Toronto to Bonavista, NL after a tumultuous relationship. My daughters and I moved for survival and Bonavista was the place at the time, that my parents had moved and my father had passed away two years earlier. My mother was still there. I had no where else to go and so while living in Bonavista I decided to go back to school and that is where I met Ann.

Ann had just left a tumultuous relationship in Port Aux Basques.

At first Ann was a very harsh, bold person that I wasn't sure I liked. She would show up early on Saturday mornings with her son and it really earked me. Of course, because of her very generous heart I grew to love her as a friend and when she started dated Jerry, we all became friends. After awhile, they decided on New Years Eve 1989-90 that I should go to the New Years Ball with them. Well, not wanting to go because it should be couples, they had invited a fellow by the name of Kevin Ryder to come too. He showed up and the rest is history.

Kevin and I got married and Ann and Jerry stood at our wedding. We stood at Ann & Jerry's wedding. They moved to Port aux basques and we moved to Calgary that August. Ann and Jerry moved to Calgary the following year and Jenna had been born 2 months prior.

Ann & Jerry, Andrew and Jenna lived with us for 8 months and then moved out on their own. A year later they moved to Grande Prairie and are still living there.

We have a lot of history between us and we do enjoy each others company. We are dear friends and I cherish their friendships as they have been there through thick and thin for me and I for them.

I am very grateful for them and grateful to have them in my life.
I do hope that somehow they will find a way to move back home so we can all hang out again as we did when we lived here.

In ALL things give thanks

I have not been writing much here in the blogger. Most of those I know don't really blog or care to but today I feel compelled to be thankful.

In All things give thanks and so I am going to blog all of the things I am grateful for and some of them will be speaking positively for what I expect to come. GOOD THINGS.

1. I am very grateful for my health, my legs that can walk, my eyes that can see, my ears to hear.

2. I am grateful that I can smell and taste.

3. I am grateful that I can drink good water and eat amazing food.

4. I am grateful for the person God created in me, the creative, imaginative, intuitive creation I am.

5. I am grateful for my parents.

6. I am grateful for a father who had great faith, who didn't waver no matter what anyone thought.

7. I am grateful for two brothers.

8. I am grateful for my husband Kevin who came into my life and has given me the true meaning of LOVE.

9. I am grateful for the YOUNG / BRUCE family.

10. I am grateful that Bruce, Joanne and their families are still in my life.

11. I am grateful that I live in a place that affords me fresh air and good living.

12. I am grateful for my two successful daughters who gave me such joy and are a constant joy in my life.

13. I am grateful for the RYDER family.

14. I am grateful for the many friends I have met over the years and some who are constantly in my thoughts and prayers.

15. I am grateful for Jim and Marion Burton for their generosity to me from the ages of 9-13 while living in La Scie, NL.

16. I am grateful for past employers and co-workers I have had the privilege of working with over the past few years.

17. I am grateful for our jobs, our home, our vehicles, our livelihoods.

18. I am grateful to NEWDOCK for keeping me working.

19. I am grateful to Manpower Professionals for keeping me busy.

20. I am grateful for my dog Shadow and for WHipper who are constant joys in our lives.

21. I am grateful to GOD for all of the blessings he bestows on me each day.

22. I am grateful for waking up each morning and enjoying each day.

23. I am grateful for the abundance and joy I have.

24. I am grateful for all the good things that are coming my way.

25. I am grateful that I can look at the Ocean each day.

26. I am grateful for the ability to make a good meal.

27. I am grateful for those in this world that help to bring peace, love and prosperity to others, who give generously to those in need.

28. I am grateful for the places I have lived and the wonderful experiences I have enjoyed.

THANK YOU GOD for all of the blessings.
BLESS those who may read this and bring them joy, peace and abundance.

AMEN!