Hmmm the intro:
Let's start with insight. Before running for office I used to blog quite frequently on my Myspace page, I even had 12 registered readers, that's right. And yes most of them were family. When I threw my hat into the ring for office one of my campaign friends told me to destroy those blogs immediately, so I did. I started deleting them not thinking to save a few, and then I realized I could not throw them away. I had to keep them, these were my ideas, my thoughts, this was where my head was 3 years ago until 6 month ago. I saved them. Now to be honest I have been running a little ragged lately. Thank goodness for the break in school but I have been downtrodden lately by the campaign, almost to the point that I don't really know what day it is just the things I have to accomplish. Yesterday I was at home outlining a book that I am going to compose (Oh Mrs. Bowers I have been meaning to email you about this) about strong southern women. "Confessions of a Steel Magnolia, and all her friends", hope the title isn't already take. I just googled it, looks like it's still available, which is why I have to get on the ball. It will be mostly a compilation of essays from other southern women from ages 12-91, I have selected 26 authors including myself and my mother. I am digressing from the point as usual.. the point here is I was reading through some of the blogs I had saved for some ideas into the things that I wanted to address in my awesome book (on shelves 12-22). I was scanning and reading looking at the humor of the things I said, my randomness is astounding when I came across something I wrote and it made me cry just a little bit. There in the blue background and black font was this " Life is amazing and beautiful. Things will never be as great as they are right now. Whatever you are going through it will pass, I promise. Be strong." I teared up just now retyping it. A reminder to myself, even though I wrote that blog for a friend years ago, that life is beautiful and amazing. We will never be here again. The frailness of these moments is that they are fleeting. I know that I discuss a lot about time, but this was to be about healing. I know that when I am down I often seek sources outside myself, like books, magazines, knitting anything it seems to escape my own thoughts when dealing with a problem. Those words motivated me in a new way. Motivated me to trust myself, and to continue my belief that God is watching over us all. They may have been typed by me, but I know that God put them in my heart to prepare for down times. As I look around my life right now I know again that God has put all this before me, for me. Placed these wonderful people around me because he knew that I would need them and that they would help me. Faith and insight. Amazing terms when you think about it. To think that my eyes have seen things through my own words. Faith.
During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven and said: "Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king."
Daniel 2:19-23
Everyone meet Madelyn my beautiful neice. What a happy baby! Wouldn't you be if you looked like me just a little bit?
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