Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Idioms

It’s funny how our lives can suddenly get “turned upside down”. It’s as if someone “pulled the rug out from under us”. We may not know why it happens but they say it must happen for a reason; though we might not find out about that for a period of time. They say “change is good”, but what if bad comes out of it? Sure, we can choose our happiness, we can be responsible for it. But what about the times, when we’ve been hurt so deeply that it seems “forever and a lifetime” to heal? We can “let it go” but really, deep down, it still exists. It’s not always easy. Life goes on. People walk past “without an inkling” of what’s going on inside. I mean deep inside. We can “put up a facade” and pretend everything is “a-o.k.” because that’s what we’re supposed to do isn’t it? 
Have you seen hopelessness in someone’s eyes? Have you seen it in your child’s eyes? Im sure Jesus has. “Give me your eyes.” I love that song by Brandon Heath. I've posted it before on my other blog but I will post a part of it here as well:


All those people going somewhere
Why have I never cared?
 Give me your eyes for just one second
 Give me your eyes so I can see
 Everything that I keep missing
 Give me your love for humanity
 Give me your arms for the broken-hearted
 The ones that are far beyond my reach
 Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
 Give me your eyes so I can see
Well, I want a second glance
So give me a second chance
To see the way you've seen the people all along

I have seen hopelessnes--I have heard hopelessness--I may have "thought" I felt hopelessness--so now, what am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? What are we all going to do about it?



Sunday, January 17, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!


A little late. It has been a while since I last blogged my thoughts. Christmas was great--quiet but good. New Year's was spent housesitting and hanging out with Cory while she was housesitting also. Heard lots of fireworks go off but didn't frighten the dog at all. This dog is very mellow. The new year brought us some snow--3 days of it. It was wonderful. I love the snow, especially watching it fall to the ground. It didn't stick much but there was enough to make snow angels on the walking trail across the street. Sections of the creek were frozen and was beautiful.