each day is new

I started this blog because I like to write, I don't care if anyone reads it, but I am glad you do, I really just want to bring Joy to the Lord, as he has done so much for me. I titled it Each day is new, because each day is new, and it's such a gift....life that is,  and the renewal of sleep and rest and  if we have a bad day, or make a mistake, we can start each day new..... yes, life is  gift. I was feeling quite selfish recently feeling like I just didn't have enough "me" time or down time and feeling quite overwhelmed and this little poem came to me and I just sat in my car before work and prayed a minute realizing and reveling over the fact of how small my pitiful little life is and how BIG God is and it was all kinda put in perspective for me there in my car in prayer to Him. I am but a speck of dirt from the ground....  You Lord, are the wonder all around.  I am but grit, dust, dirt and clay....  You Lord, are peace, joy and hope for the day.

I can remember as a child, or young person, I was defined by my parents, and while that wasn't a bad thing, they were loving parents, we were poor and I grew up poor, with my Dad in my ear," if you want better, you have to do good in school and go to college." I began to define myself by my ambition, what I did in life, the career path I chose would define me and I was gonna have money and I was gonna be well thought of and I would be defined as such. I had dreams of being rich, working hard and enjoying the payoff. That's how I defined myself. Instead of that rich doctor or lawyer, I became a nurse, that's how I define myself and others define me -the nurse. Never became rich. As my children came along, I began to define myself as mom, my children's mom, that was the place I wanted to be, beside them, helping and teaching them, I didn't want to work a full time job, I wanted to be mom first, defined by mom. That whole career was out the window, ambi

I will never forget the day I read the scripture that says Guard your heart...... or maybe I read a commentary on it or heard a speaker speak on it, but it really made a lot of sense to me how important it is to guard your heart. Proverbs is suppose to be a book of wisdom and wisdom it is and more !!!  You have heard the saying, garbage in and garbage out... well that is it in it's simplest form, yet so much deeper than that. "  Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." Proverbs 4:23(NIV) So why isn't this burned in our minds as a child? why can't we possibly understand this until we are in our 20's, 30's or even older when we have lived a life of low self esteem and low self worth and we are searching for that significance, that purpose and we realize... "oh well we must guard our heart".  I was thinking the other day, ok I have met way too many girls and women with low self worth and low self esteem and these ar