I Love A Parade

Okay I've been to famous parades - Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena on New Year's Day several years ago. Adolphus Christmas Parade which our kids were in; and a parade our granddaughter was in, and the Veteran's Parade and now I'm headed toward a famous parade - Macy's T. Parade. Whoopeee!!! And I tear up when I see the bands coming. Maybe it brings back the exciting days of childhood to me; I just feel like a proud American, especially the one our kids marched in!!!! And I've always been on the sidelines right front and center! That's the great part!

How about you? Have you been in a parade or do you even go?

Happy Saturday everyone!!!!!

Football

There's something not many people know about me and I'm going to reveal it now.

On Saturdays I AM ADDICTED to watching Football games by what I call Ivy League Colleges. Since I'm from Oklahoma, I watch OU Football and love to watch (when they show them) SMU, TCU, Rice, and Baylor. Texas Tech someetimes.....I know I get razzed about not watching the Longhorns, but they have beaten OK too many times, so IF I HAVE TIME, I might click on that one. I also do Outreach at Church on Saturdays, so one or more games are included. Sometimes I think Referees are partial...that's my own opinion so please don't throw rotten eggs at me.

How about you? Do you watch NFL or College games? Or any at all.

I love the excitement of the players, coaches, band, and cheerleaders & fans all inclusive!!!! It's Friday! Have fun today - End the week with tons of joy!!

Okay - How To Be Your Own Cheerleader

1 - Get excited
2 - Believe you can cheer for yourself
3 - Use tons of enthusiasm
4 - Practice!
5 - Definitely keep extremely positive thoughts and Self Talk
6 - Shouldn't be this far on the numbers - Trust God to give you total help!
7 - Refuse to be around negativity or drainy personalities!
8 - Stay on Goal
9 - Visualize yourself WINNING!!!!

It works! (To get started - get some loyal support from a very close family
member who is on your team!!!!) Like our Son helped me yesterday
and now I'm cheering myself on to do it!!!!! Ride in a smaller
jet for travel!!!
I covet your prayers.....beginning now! Thank You One and All!

Believe!

Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't - you're right either way!

Belief in ourselves is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use!

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers and we suffer more in our imagination than reality.

Learn your lessons and move on!

Those are my encouraging thoughts today. Remember to read Philippians chapter 1...awesome, asesome, soooo good to believe!

Congratulations!

.......to my hubby and I.......41 years of matrimony!!!! It seems like it was yesterday. It's amazing how time flies!!!!!!!!!!!! Up up and away! And away we go..........sing the Anniversary Song.....I love it!!!!!

Keeping Up With New Technology

I love to keep up with the new items coming out...I don't freak out if I don't get a new cell phone or computer add-on, but what I hear from one of our kids is that there is what's called a "web cam" (hope that's the spelling of it) and I could actually talk to our daughter via camera, see her and talk at the same time. Come on...you can't beat that with a stick!!!! Okay Santa...I'm putting my request in NOW....so I'm diggin' that new technology and not only will I put it on my Santa list but on my prayer list!!! A-ha...gotcha -- telling God about it is sure to be an answer!!! I hope your Monday is very eventful. I know mine is going to be!!!

Q&A

After morning Service today we have Q&A where my husband answers questions regarding the message or whatever is on one's mind.........I love it! In today's economy, people need answers. Our church is built on God giving hope, guidance and security!
Come join us. A pretty casual atmosphere awaits you.

America Rocks! Random thoughts...

Lately I've been hearing on some News Channels that America is not a great country to be in. I beg to differ with comments that go out negative about America. I am proud to be an American and to help mankind out in any way I possibly can. Try being grateful for the freedom we have! There's always someone to help explain the why of something. The freedom we have to go to Church on Sunday and hear a message that is relevant and good for us out of the Bible. Did you know the Bible has the answers to ANYTHING!!! Just look it up. Lately I've really been going to the Bible and finding comfort in the scriptures - especially when someone puts America, the country I love, down. We need to pray for our new President and ask God to lead Him in all ways. Decisions that have to be made will be definitely necessary as (as his wife calls him) Barak makes will need the support of the American people.

Yes, America rocks! Be proud, read what the Bible says about the freedom we have in Christ, the creator of mankind, and bow your head to be grateful for even the smallest thing you own or have been blessed with. I know I am!!! C ya in Church tomorrow at 10 a.m. Worship the true and living God! Those are my thoughts. I am so very blessed and super grateful!

4 P's

Purpose

Passion

Projected Goals

Plan

Persist

Gives Confidence - Try it...it works! Have a Happy Friday!

Country Music Awards

Okay - I confess I fell asleep and didn't get to see who won the female vocalist award. Livin' in the country as a kid, I listened to whatever radio station my older brothers and sisters had the station on......The country ones won at times, so Ernest Tubb and Dottie Rambo who has gone home to be with the Lord were singers. I'll surf the internet and find out.

Since my passion is singing, and my husband and I sing to country background music at times, I love the down home of country music. Do you? Let me know. I'm happy for whomever gets the award 'cause it's hours and hours of practice...trust me!!!

Keep On Being Grateful

God is so great! He supplies our every need and more! I'm already praying your Thanksgiving will be a grateful one. Start being thankful now and by the time Thanksgiving Day gets here, you will feel a great feeling of gratefulness. Give thanks is how it begins! I am so thankful for His bountiful blessings! Proverbs 2:2 - maintaining gratefulness causes us to walk in righteousness, in love and in obedience to the God who supplies.

Facebook

What is your opinion? I've just now been introduced to the "fun" of Facebook. I dig it!!!! So, please comment or e-mail me and let me know what you think? Thx.

Get The Right Answers

Women are always wanting to "know the answer." I promise if you are W.O.W. today at 9 a.m. at Lighthouse Church you will get the answer!!!! Definite answers! See you there.

Soul Searching

My question - if you are confronted with the truth, would you even tell it?

I actually had a situation where I was being used, so I confronted the truth with this lady. And in all description, she was a lady. She didn't come clean about the truth when I confronted her, but she did the next day! Yea God on that one! Which tells me, it's easier to tell a lie, thinking it might get you in good graces with that person, but in the long run, it gets you nowhere but anger and then as you think about it..........the truth would be chosen as a better solution!

The next day she came out with the truth and oh how heavenly the air was. Hip, hip, hooray!

So hope happens...just tell the truth in the first place....admit you blundered and you are a bigger and better person!

I'm sure glad that worked out...I'm sure I received one or two gray hairs over it!

You're definitely put back on the road to emotional wholeness! Go for it.

Hey Ladies.....Tomorrow is W.O.W. (Women of Worth) 9 a.m. (ugh) but great coffee and refreshments and discussion regarding TRUST.........ooooohhhhh really good!!!
See you there - bring a friend. You'll be glad you did!!!!

Just Be Honest!

My thoughts....just tell the truth! Lately I have run into people that would rather lie than the truth......oh pla---eeeeze!!! For the love of might....please tell the truth...lies begat lies. Come on...get with the program...I'm helping some women that think it's right to lie.........WRONG!!!!! Just be honest...in a relationship, you owe the truth. When the other person lies, I can feel comfortable in my own skin because I have to live with my conscience and I will confront the truth. Sooooo, if you are reading this, please know lies get you nowhere.......admit you have wronged someone and make it right.

God will give you grace and mercy to tell the truth. If you have begun a pattern of lying, then come clean. I would much rather have a happy, honest, loving life of enjoyment as I pillow my head at night and thank the Lord that I had a day of serving Him in truth and wisdom to obey His will.

Your thoughts???? You're always free to comment and if you don't care to, drop me an e-mail or call me. Whatever you do, please catch yourself when you tell a lie; correct it; face telling the truth. It sets you free!!!!! Well, why? Because MAD looks bad on you! Let's love one another and make the world a better place to live! ADD VALUE TO OTHERS!

Thanksgiving Is Almost Here!

I love Thanksgiving.
No, I adore Thanksgiving!
A time to really be grateful is my first love.
Every year we have been treated like a king & queen at our Son's home.....
This year we are going to our Daughter's. Even though she's a veggie lover,
she is going to fix us a turkey and trimmings!!! I am soooooo very grateful.
Get in the spirit. It's there....tell your family you are grateful! That will
make your day!!!

Recognition And Encouragers

It's a choice! Either you want to encourage or you won't. Please keep me away from
someone who does not want to encourage. It brings me down. I finally saw that people who aren't happy for great things that happen to me aren't looking out for my best interest and I had better make a choice to ignore them because I know how stressed I get over it.

We all have tremendous power to affect the lives of people around us.........Encouragement from us could be the difference-maker in someone's day, week, or even life, sending that person in a whole new direction! I've been sent in a new direction this week and some day I pray I can blog about it...it's incredibly amazing!!! Just from one person in our family encouraging me...I really feel like a somebody!!!! And do I ever feel loved!

How can you help other people to feel like they are somebody? By seeing them as a ten. I believe that you get out of people exactly what you expect from them. If you treat people like tens, they respond like tens! People want encouragement and recognition and affirmation. It is a deep human desire, and we an help people become great simply by showing them how we believe in them!

Powerful Business Insights

An uncooperative attitude carries with it its own penalties.

I read in a book recently, "If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it - by the blade or by the handle," YOU can control how you react to the stress and in some cases take active steps to cut down the amount of stress you have to endure.

My thoughts are lately I've been around to see some bad attitudes and I'm not judging or condeming, but the down, bitter attitude will get you nowhere. My encouragement would be to suck it up and turn on a positive attitude; an attitude of gratefulness and trust me, the world will look better to you.

Don't march yourself out in the wilderness or feel abandoned, rely on Ps. 30:5 "Weeping may endure for the night....but joy comes in the morning." Put on a cheerful attitude and see how your day will be different! But, remember to vote!

VOTE!!!

Don't even hestitate! I actually saw four people over the weekend who weren't going to vote. Hello....................Not acceptable!!!! bottom line: Please VOTE! I did EARLY VOTING and loved it!

P. S. I am blessed beyond comprehension today!!!!!!! Whoopeee!!!

Yea - it's Sunday!!!

My husband is in a new series, "JOY" book of Philippians...............love, love, love it. I truly am a joyful person and I can't wait...it grieves my heart when people don't have joy. I take it as a global suffering if they don't know how to at least smile and be happy. Believe it or not, there are hundreds of people who have no joy. Come to Lighthouse Church, 10 a.m. and you will hear the answer to
having JOY.................see you there!!!!!