a life beyond running shoes.

a few quick reads.... honey for a woman's heart gladys hunt i skimmed. it is an elaborate book list.....but pause everyone once in a while to get the nuggets of wisdom and insight into that was fun, encouraging, and reminded me to read good stuff. "reading is a sage way to bump up against life. reading may be an escape, but it is not escape from my own life and problems. it is escape from the narrow boundaries of being only me. reading in some wonderful way helps me find out who i am." (page 24) i was going to return it to the friend i borrowed it from, but decided to go back through it and write down some titles i wanted to remember to put on my "to read" list. it was long but of some good stuff.... not sure it was anything i could not have come up with on my own, but it was a good read. a few authors i would like to check out are: isabel allende, maeve bundy, anne tyler, gail godwin. and i was reminded again that i need to read little women !...

to sing his praises..... praying words would penetrate my heart.... remind me of truths.... and delight in god's love for me... glorious things of thee are spoken zion, city of our god; he, whose word cannot be broken, formed thee for his own abode on the rock of ages founded what can shake thy sure repose? with salvation's walls surrounded, thou mayst smile at all thy foes. see the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love. well supplies thy sons and daughters, and all fears of want removes. what can faint while such a river ever flows their thirst to quench? grace which like the lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. savior, if of zion's city, i, through grace, a member am, let the world deride or pity, i will glory in thy name fading is the worlding's pleasure, all is boasted pomp and show solid joys and lasting treasures none but zion's children know. -- words by john newton, 1779 amazing to think we still sing words so rich and...

she is cute and sweet and fun. but don't let that fool you. she tantrums. she kicks. she yells. she fights. she whines. she resists. and that is the state of my heart. i am fighting the idea that my plan is no longer god's plan. i had a 20 year plan that included my children graduating from high school in this house. i don't shift gears easily. church was so good for me yesterday. to be called into god's presence. to be ushered into worshiping the king. to repent of my toddler-heart. to proclaim god's goodness that endures forever. it is changing my heart....slowly.

this blogging thing is weird. how public do i get.... should i be..... when do i process....how.... etc. well, as to not emotionally vomit via the internet, i will give the bullet points of our summer: my husband resigned from his position as a church planting pastor due to financial reasons. i started packing. my husband did three weeks of home-improvement projects to get our house ready. we put our house on the market. we left on vacation without daddy..... change of plans due to implosion brooklyn. had a blast in california. changed our summer itinerary and came home by passing time in florida. had our final worship service... in our hone no less for an added sweetness. got an offer on the house....countered, accepted. un-enrolled boys from public school. started paperwork to homeschool. kids got sick. left again on vacation. kids had 10 days of stomach bug. had a awesome time at a lake in tennessee with cousins, family, and gramma. my husband had a skype interview with another chur...

in the woods . tana french. dublin murder mystery squad. can i give spoilers? well, i will. main character goes into a myopic funk and ruins the whole story. one of the mysteries remains unsolved, which is super frustrating, and the fun relationship between the partners unravels ridiculously. that being said, i could not put it down and was dying to finish. i did have disturbing dreams.....missing children, murder site, etc. so.... final analysis. it was her first novel.... but i will most likely read her second that takes the female detective's point of view on a new case. i did read the third one of the series and was on the fence about it as well.... so lois, not sure i disliked it but can't say i loved it. dead until dark. living dead in dallas. club dead . charlaine harris okay, i read the first three sookie stackhouse books. more vampire fiction..... adult version though. definitely NOT for juvenile audience. i was also on the fence....but then read two m...