Life goes on……

Life is full and busy, busier than I would like to be.  This is going to be a rather random post of whatever I find on my phone.  I said that this is going to be the year of a photo journal of everyday things.  So here we go!

This is my youngest, she has such a gentleness in her face.  I caught this moment while we were shopping in Michaels, this wasn’t posed at all, thank goodness I had my phone ready!

I am finding that I need to make time for things I like to do so that I do not become overwhelmed with my life.

Recently I taught a crochet class for a group of Grade 4 girls.  It was fun seeing them work through it.  We made cute little bracelets.  Easy to make and it teaches you the basics and gives a lot of practise.  A perfect first project!  I just love to teach!

My oldest turned 11!  Wow, where did the time go?  She is growing up so fast, it is so great to see her personality starting to shine through.

Family friends took in a couple of puppies that lost their mother.  My youngest is just enamoured with them.  Look at the look on her face!

The other day there were a couple of quail running around in front of our house, so I ran inside to tell the girls so that they could see them.  We all ran outside to see these birds scurry off into the trees, when we were walking back to the house I happened to look up and I saw this:

It is an upside down rainbow.  I had no idea what it was so I googled it of course! 

The circumzenithal arc or circumzenith arc (CZA), also called the Bravais' arc, is an optical phenomenon similar in appearance to a rainbow; but it arises from refraction of sunlight through horizontally-oriented ice crystals, generally in cirrus clouds, rather than from raindrops.

I guess there is a benefit from our very cold long winter.  We have had snow since mid-October it is really enough.  The Weather Network is tell me that we are in for yet another few inches tomorrow.  Can anyone recommend a nice warm place to move to?

I am working on a great mixed media art piece with a crochet infusion for an upcoming art auction.  I am very excited.  I am also doing something special with my camera strap cozies!  They are the most looked at item in my Etsy shop ~ Living Skies Crochet. 

Keep checking back for more news on that, I have to confirm a few things before I make it official!  In meantime I am making as many as I can before the big announcement.

If you want to follow me along on my photo journey please check out my Instagram livingskiescrochet.

Let’s be honest.

It is time for a reality check.  I do not need to be this busy.  God did not command—”Thou shalt be busy!”  I have been finding my head spinning so fast I sometimes don’t know which direction to go.  So I am putting a plan into place.  I am going to make the time to sit down and make two lists.  The first list will be things that I enjoy doing.

The second list will be all the things that I have signed up for or agreed to do.  Then I will sit down and have a chat with God and start to remove things from the second list that do not match up with the first list.  This is going to be difficult, and I am probably going tick a few people off.  But I learned years ago that this is my life and I have to make the choices for my life’s direction.

Also, whenever I spend time writing and praying about things God’s plan and purpose always becomes clearer.  So say a prayer for me as I go through this time, that I will have wisdom, discernment and the strength to do whatever He wants me to.

Worry = Selfishness

I was listening to a talk about worry and then all of a sudden it dawned on me; worry is so selfish. Let me explain my thinking.

Here is a study I found on worry. Studies show that:
40% Never happen
30% Past mistakes and beyond control
12% health concerns that were needless
10% insignificant or petty
8% were actually about something that was significant and
4% of those were out of people’s control.
Conclusion: 96% of worry is irrelevant

So if 96% of worry is irrelevant than why do we spend so much of our valuable time doing it? We worry because we think that situations are not going to turn out the way that we want them to or how we think they should happen. As if we have some control over the situation.

How funny is that? I am scared to think about all the time I have wasted worrying about things that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to. I have much better things to do with my time!

So tell yourself today that there is no need to worry, you can’t control it anyway. Just give it to God and go on with the more important things in your day. Go and kiss your husband, hug your children, go have coffee with a friend. Your time is more valuable than spending it on irrelevant worry!