Just a few things.....

Hey Y'all,

The whole world is saddened by the passings of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson. I remember watching Ed on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson for years. David and I both thought he was the perfect sidekick for him. I thought Farrah was a stunning woman. I was never a real Charlie's Angels fan but I thought she did a banging job in "The Burning Bed" and "Small Sacrifices." A really good actress. And Michael Jackson was a super-talented performer. I still get a thrill when I watch "Thriller." But my heart sinks when I wonder where these 3 are spending eternity. Unless they knew Jesus Christ as their own personal savior they are right now in hell. No favoritism there. In the public eye they all had many problems with sins publicized. whether proven or not. But in private of the public....so do I. I can't pass a judgement on any of them I only know what I learned from TV and such. I just know the legacy they leave behind. That makes me think of what kind I will leave when I leave this earth. I am waiting on 2 dear friends, Kathy and Debbie, to come over and lay by the pool with me today. We met 26 years ago and we have stayed close through marriages, births, job losses & changes, moves and just life. They are truly wonderful Christian women and I love spending time with them. And lastly, this past Wednesday night my daughters Sunday School class goes from house to house in the summer. This week was our turn. they swam and grilled hotdogs and laughed and played. The host house is responsible for the devotional time. They have great leaders in the class but they are called the College and Career Class." So they are becoming more responsible for their study in the Word. Erica led the group in a lesson on fear. She did a wonderful job and I am so proud of her. All these sweet young adults really opened up on what they fear. From the silly (spiders, snakes, bears and bees) to the serious fears. Crippling ones if Satan had his evil way. Disappointing people, rejection, not following God's will, no discernment and several more. I have watched these kids since birth and they have done their parents proud. Have they fallen into pits? Yes. So have I. But they each one know who can pull them out of the slimy pit. And that y'all is quite a legacy no man can follow.

Bless Y'all

Cindy

The Weekend....

Hey Y'all,

I love Monday mornings. Home by myself, picking up the clutter, catching up emails, bills, snail-mail etc... This was Father's Day weekend. I did myself proud and grilled out several meats and dug some new potatoes to broil. A real "man's meal". Meat-n- Tators. I even let all the men eat in the cool house and all the womenfolk ate outside around the pool. It was a beautiful evening too. I even let all the dogs beg around our feet. By the way, I am beginning to really strongly dislike Darla. She is my indoor snob dog. David says only snobs have dogs like her. For 3 days now she has been using my formal dining room as a bathroom. She is doing it on purpose too. She is a very spiteful little thing. Please pray for her. Every time I get out my Bible or try to do some homework for a study or Sunday School she aggravates the life out of me. When my small group of "sisters" comes over she is relentless. I have explained salvation to her numerous times but she has a heart of stone. I even told her that all dogs don't go to heaven. She just shrugs her little shoulders. I told her just this morning that she is pushing 13 and time is running out. Hard hearted thing. My other dogs will be in heaven and I have a few there already. One went straight to hell....no doubt. Mean thing. I want Darla in heaven with me but it isn't looking to good for her. Also this weekend my Sunday School class finally finished an in-depth study on the book of Matthew. I think it took us all of 2 years. It gave verse by verse a whole new meaning. Next week we start an in depth study on Revelations. I think that will take at least 25 years. Jesus will come back before we get half way through! On Friday I had lunch with a dear friend at a neat restaurant downtown. She is so savvy at new stuff. I know this is so random but I am thinking backwards as I type. Right now I wish I was swimming but my solar blanket is on my pool and I can't take it off alone so I am stuck doing housework. I think I have a rash from it too. Have a great day!!!

Bless Y'all,

Cindy

Is it just me?????

Hey Y'all,

Is it just me or is this world going slap crazy? Between the news headlines and all the nutty stuff on magazine covers in the checkout line I cannot grasp all that is going on in this sicko world. Satan is after families galore...and he is winning them over right and left. No longer do parents raise God-fearing children. Parents don't even marry anymore. They just co-exist and co-parent a passel of youngns'. I would love to just live in a cave and never know a thing. But God calls us to be in the world not of the world and hiding is just not doable. I get so weary trying to express thoughts and knowledge of the WORD into this world I live in. Mostly, I feel it falls on deaf ears. Yesterday at church it was such a good service and so many tender drops of love fell on my dried up soul. Then I left the parking lot and the world crashed in. Today is quiet and I am home alone but my spirit is all a quiver with thoughts and prayer needs and praises and cries of pure help in areas. I think I just need to "Be still and know who is in control" I need to hit my face to do this because if I give my self a chance I will be glancing off and thinking on something else. Praise our sovreign God, sisters....Praise HIM.

Bless Y'all,

Cindy

When will women get a clue???????

Hey Y'all,

I went to the gym not once but twice yesterday. I did the Total Body Sculpting class and then returned 3 hours later to do the Zumba class with my girls. To reward myself for being so disciplined I ate a bowl of low fat ice cream. Yum-Yum. While at the gym, being the non-stop people watcher, I was amazed at the outfits some women wear to "workout". I myself had on my daughters' old middle school gym shorts and a tank top from the clearance rack at Walmart. Classy stuff. What I want to know is when women will get a clue that tight biker shorts do not ever look good. Especially paired with a sports bra and no top. This is even more attractive while running on a treadmill while your back fat covers most of the strap and your muffin top is inflated then fell over your biker shorts!!!! These women think all the stares mean one thing when it really means something else. Women please!!!! Wake up. Cover yourself up and just workout. I have no desire nor does anyone else to see every nook and cranny of your body. Also, stop hanging out with the guys on their side lifting flimsy 5 pound weights while these young 17 year old BOYS are power-lifting 800 pounds or something to the like. They are not interested in you. And shame on you for trying to make them be. I could just slap somebody silly!! I am sorry if I sound so irate but I am. There are so many beautiful, sweet and precious ladies that get in their heads that they need to turn a head or have someone make a comment. This is not becoming. I realize that some of these women are just plain old "hoochie mamas". They think because they can squeeze in a size 4 tiny little thing that they are good to go. You are not. Dress age appropriately. There comes a time when the mini-skirt hits the trashcan. Ultra-low slung jeans are a no-no and baring your tummy with it's new belly button ring is just plain trashy. Also, keep your new additions from spilling out of too-tight tank tops and put them in a bra. They might not ever need one anymore but please spare the world all your details. We think modesty in young girls is hard pressed. Go to your local gym, pool or mall and watch some of these 40 plus women walking around. Heartbreaking. Remember ladies there is no old knee cream out there nor is there a neck cream that really works. You can look stylish, modern and classy without showing off one part of your body. Also, aging is a part of life. Each wrinkle I have is earned. I'd like to think these crows feet came from all the time I have spent in prayer with my eyes tightly shut. But they are probably just plain old laugh lines. Now, I do think every old barn needs a fresh coat of paint. You can wear make-up, jewelry and dress nicely. Just do us a favor? Don't overdo.

Bless Y'all

Cindy

The List

Each year when school lets out I create a list of things I would like to accomplish during the summer break. These are a lot like New Year Resolutions....they never come to the goal. One year I did repaint most of my rooms in my house and mange to wallpaper 3 of them. I think that was the summer I later went to a rehab for the craft-challenged. I have never recovered. This summer my top priority is my daughter, Erica's, wedding. I need to finalize all of her ideas, choices and selections for this grand event. She is really just the sweetest thing. I not only love her fiercely. I really like her. She has turned out well. I also want to spend time with my youngest, Megan. She too is the sweetest thing. This child of mine has caused me a few gray hairs but my hair stylist, Karen, has never let me actually see one. Bless her. Megan is high maintenance, needy and downright fun. When she is not screaming she is laughing hysterically. She and I will spending a lot of time this summer with her aging beagle, Hunter. This is probably his last summer. He is really going downhill. I would also like to spend some time goofing off. The older I get the more I see this as really a good thing. Houses keep getting dirty. By the way I am installing a dirt floor soon. What is the use anyway??? Clothes pile up daily. And people keep getting hungry. I plan to have friends over for a swim and good lunches around my pool. I envision long talks on deep theological topics. In reality we will probably sit around and discuss a big pile of nothing important. You know, that is okay too...sometimes. I do want to get into the WORD more and deeper this summer. I so desire to do the will of God but seeking Him daily for instruction is where my downfall lies. Two or three minutes is not enough prayer time nor does five or ten minutes reading enough time. I am not saying that there is a set time to spend with God. That would be legalism and I am trying very hard to avoid that pit...again. God has spoken to me many times in a second flat. But to really dig in the WORD and absorb it. To be able to breathe it back out with a full confidence when a conversation is turning in a certain way. I have a lot more goals this summer. Right now I am off to make my bed. I plan to do this daily too!

Bless Y'all,

Cindy

What I been a doin'!!

Hey Y'all,

I am so sorry dear faithful reader(s)! I have been........well lazy I guess. I could say I have been so busy (I have) or that I have had too many things on my mind (I have) or that I had nothing to say (never-ever). But the truth is I have been lazy. I have the same 24 hours everyone else does and Like everyone else I do what I really want to do with those hours. First of all, I am so glad now that Kris won American Idol. I have read all about Mr. Lambert and his escapades and choices and I am glad I never voted for him but I did guiltily cheer for him. Kris is the better choice America!! Second of all....SCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER!!! Enough said on that. Now, a few things I have seen. Sunday in church the offering plate came my way and I passed it on to the sweet lady beside me and then I saw the strangest thing. The couple in front of me passed the plate back to the usher and then the wife snapped open her purse and took out a little bitty bottle of hand sanitizer. Squirted some on her and her husbands hands and quickly put it back in her purse. Why? That is a little overboard to me. I bet she didn't realize that she re-germed herself with the snap on her purse when she put the stuff back up. I might tell her this Sunday but then I would have to run to the altar and pray myself up for being just mean. Which I have done before...right Sandra? Now for a funny story. This is just like my kooky family. My sweet mother gets up often during the night. For many years she got up to eat. She would lay a snickers candy bar on the counter and get up 2 or 3 times and take a bite. I would be as big as a house if I did that. But anyway, she still gets up a couple of times to go to the bathroom. My parents have a bathroom in their bedroom but for reasons I will explain at a later date, this has always been daddy's bathroom and the hall one was the girls' room. The two never cross. My own house is alot like that too. I said we were weird. Anyway, my mom got up the other night to use the girls' room and she sat down. One major thing about my mom. She never opens her eyes when she gets up at night. Never. She says she will wake up then. I have tried to tell her she is already awake but she insists she isn't and she knows the layout of the house by heart so she will keep them closed. So, she was sitting there when she heard my niece, Brittany, stumble in the bathroom. She lives with them and is a 23 year old young woman. Weird in her own right. Before my mother could say a word let alone open her eyes. Plop. Brittany sat down right in her lap. Talk about screaming!! Poor Brittany screamed and screamed. I mean who goes to the bathroom at night and expects to sit on legs? Then they started laughing so hard that my daddy got up and cut the light on....imagine that?! Only my family. I need some new books to read...any suggestions y'all. If you cannot comment please email me some good reading. Nothing that will make me think either.....Tracy.

Bless Y'all,

Cindy