Who am I supposed to be?

Things happened this past weekend that really made me question myself.  Who I am, why I am the way I am and what others really see in me (or according to one person’s opinion).  It was shocking  and a bit of reality, nasty and brutal reality to say the least. 

Then through the help of some really amazing friends I was able to rethink all the things that were said to me and start to see things a little differently.  That perhaps those harsh words may not be exactly true.  Thank you (you know who you are) for helping me get out of one of the biggest slumps I’ve been in for a LONG time!

Then I stumbled upon something I wrote down a while ago that I should stick up on my fridge:

“God dwells within you as you yourself, exactly the way you are. God isn’t interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. Just stay as you were made, within your natural character.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Eat, Pray, Love"

With that I will say that sure, nobody’s perfect.  We all have things we can work on to be a better person.  But I am reminded that the Lord has asked me to do things because of the person I am and NOT the person he thinks I can pretend to be.  I hope that by being “me” I can help someone out there love life a little bit more.

Anything going on?

When you don’t blog for a while some one may think “hmm they don’t have much of a life if they don’t blog often.  They must not have anything going on or anything to blog about.  Or the other person may see this as “wow, they have been so busy with living life that they don’t have time to blog.”  Well, let’s just say I’ll leave it up to you, the reader to decide which one is more accurate.

First up, a trip to Catalina with some great friends to celebrate 2 of their 40th birthdays!  Oh and is that a Cafe Rio we hit on the way home?  Can you tell we are excited?

 

 

 

Hosted a wild party for Abby and a few of her school friends.

Then off to Disneyland for Halloween fun.

 

Don’t forget the Ward Trunk or Treat

Then came Halloween.  Since it fell on a Sunday we “let” the kids stay home and pass out candy for the first time.

Throw in a school carnival, a bunch of activities for church, a party with friends, birthday parties and school parties this month kicked our trash.

It was a good one but ready to slow down a little bit.  Oh wait, we have more holidays ahead.  Aaaaaagh.