Around The Corner

Many Farms, Arizona

Navajo Rez tornado funnel cloud many farms

A funnel cloud touched down on the navajo reservation in the small town of Many Farms, AZ. This happen about 5:30pm mtn time.

Fall is just ‘Around The Corner.’ Well, I always plan ahead, always. If August, which has been unseasonably Cool(in the 80's) and(Wet), does not feel like Summer, well then September is probably going to get the ‘Heat Index Rising, with horrid 3 Digit Numbers. After all this is the Desert. Since I’ve been back, part of July and part of August, have been turned upside down, COOL INSTEAD OF HOT, HOT, HOT!!!ON AUG 3RD THERE WAS ACTUALLY A TORNADO, THAT WAS SPOTTED ACROSS THE ROAD 191. They are very, very rare!!! More photo's coming!

So why not let September, get changed by you 'Around The Corner,' which should be pretending to get cool AND FALLISH, around here normally, but could get hot, hot, hot instead, WITH SUMMER'S HEAT FALLING DOWN AROUND THIS HERE TOWN!!! September could be, devastatingly drought like. That's cause the rest of the Country, will send the heat to the Desert, when they tire of it.

Well, I usually put up Capri’s and get out Winter stuff in September, for October, which is usually Cool enough to start the ole clothes Switcheroo. Yes, September’s Fall Piece, is falling into the Puzzle. And then Labor Day, Calendar Day, Turkey Day, Christmas Day, and then, New Year's Day, again.  Wow, I am really getting excited about all these Day’s, we have to look forward to, and all I had to do was take September, for a drive around this here Town, along with Sing my Fall Song!!! I wrote a Song, called GOLDEN LEAVES.  It includes March Winds a Blowing, Fall Leaves a Falling and Winter’s Snow a Snowing and Summer’s heat a Falling. THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU!!! NOW REMEMBER THIS IS A SONG, SOUNDS BETTER WITH THE GUITAR AND ME SINGING IT, well Ok, anybody singing it. BUT AS I SAID BEFORE, THIS IS THE RIGHT TIMING FOR THE WORDS TO BE SHARED WITH YOU!!! MAYBE YOU’LL UNDERSTAND THE WEATHER CHANNEL BETTER AND LOVE  MORE ALSO!!!

GOLDEN LEAVES

Golden Leaves are falling down around this town
Golden Leaves falling down bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen that I don’t understand
There are things that I  know

Winter snows are falling down around this town
Winter snows falling round bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen that I don’t understand
There are things that I know


March winds are blowing around this town
March winds blowing round bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen I just don’t understand
There are things that happen that  I do

Summer’s heat is falling round around this town
Summer’s heat’s falling round bringing pain to my heart
There are some things that happen I just don’t understand
There are some things that happen that I do

I know I know I love you
I know I know I do
I don’t understand why I love you
I don’t understand why I do

No I don’t understand why I do
 

Tornado Touchdown in Rough Rock ABOUT 20 MILES UP THE ROAD ON A MESA

Here are a few pics of those Tornadoes. I actually  go to see one of the MF one's  as it passed over the air  going toward the Dog Kennels, where my friend Peggy was working, she saw it too and got inside the Brick Building. It was all kinds of wierd swirls, as I watched from my Porch, which were getting down and dirty, more and more swirliest and circular, by the moment. Thankful it, bypassed us all in the air.

But I am Stymied this year!! What to predict?

Which doesn’t usually happen too often to me. Usually my Pseudo Predictions are just that, Pseudo and just as tricky as a Casino. Care to wager? Weather wins every time, just like the House.

But I kinda really do, like being prepared, so I will pretend, I know what the Weather is going to do, and make sure, if I’m wrong, that I do not take down the Air Conditioner. You can usually wear, jeans and a long sleeve shirt when the Air turns Brisk, inside or quickly change to Capri's if it's hot out.

I am sure where ever you have planted yourself, you are facing similar circumstances. Trying to outguess what Mother Nature has planned for you there in the Mid-West, or plain ole, North, South, East and West. The last time I talked to someone in the Mid South, they say it is, ‘really, really Too Hot, To Play Outside, kind of Day!’ Guess they are Praying, for some of our Cool Rain, which is socked in, for the rest of the Week here. Thunderstorms everyday MSNBC, INTERNET SAYS!!!I love MSNBC!!! Their Weather is right on the Mark, right up their with the House.

But they are probably wondering, if their Weather is extreme, for where they live. Well, I know our Weather is ‘extreme,’ for the Desert. Cool usually is not a temperature, that ole Mercury hits around here, excepting for Night Time. And that is super great. For if one can just survive the Day, the Night cools, wonderfully. NOT so in some places. The Heat just stays as an uninvited guest. IN THIS CASE, THE WEATHER CHANNEL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, IF THEY PREDICT THE, SAME OLE, SAME OLE, ALL THE TIME, YOU'D THINK THEY'D DO A JIG, WHEN THEY GIVE IT TO YOU or at least call you up and say, "sorry."

But whatever your Weather, turn on some Music and Dance. It is good for the Soul and downright excellent for your exercising body. Get a cool glass of-Tea, Coffee, Chicken Broth, Diet Coke, Diet Snapple, Gatorade, Sangria, Beer, Margarita, Strawberry Daquari,  Pina Colada or Martini with Olives, of course, after the dance. Put your Feet up, and make a Call to someone you LOVE!  AND TELL UM SO!!! DON'T WAIT, DO IT BEFORE YOU GO 'AROUND THE CORNER!!!'

NAH, YOU’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY YOU LOVE UM. JUST ASK MY SONG!!!

Feeling Better

Hill Country Bible Church-JOIN THE JOURNEY, to which I am signed up to receive by e-mail and LOVE IT GREATLY. It has really given me some spiritual steps on which to climb. These peoples testimony’s really help me. I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT. Go in and sign up, you will know what I mean. Here are a few excerpts from one of them.

We all live with fear in our lives, whether founded or unfounded, but there is only one thing that we should have, and that is a reverential fear about our God Himself.
Many times in the Bible someone was afraid to move or to speak out and in almost every instance the Lord told them not to be afraid.  They were fearing the wrong things.  Other times, God did  want His children to be afraid.  One of those was when a few disciples heard God’s voice booming from the sky, and they “fell on their faces and were greatly afraid” (Matt. 17:6)  This was a healthy, holy fear; a reverence for the one and only God!  This fear is different; it is a good fear!

When we begin to “get who God is," then slowly, miraculously, our fear fades and faith takes over!  Friends, listen as He calls to us: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me.” (John 14:1)

Yes, I hear. Do not let your hearts be troubled. So I won’t. I will use common sense and I have made leaps and strides by drinking lots of liquids. Healed completely? That is God’s Opportunity, I don’t know yet, but I will not fear it, but I do feel better and want to clean up the house. That has got to be a sign, that all is well within my household. Actually wanting to read Flylady again and write again, exercise and sing and play music and piddle around with Facebook is a great indicator.. Flylady is super with the suggestions on just how to keep it organized. And I love organized, so she fits right into my niche. And she even has a men’s Flymen(or something like that) on Facebook.

Now I do believe that if one is feeling better, then one is on the road to recovery. Anyway that is the road I am traveling on now. The Faith road to forgiveness and healing and feel good. One just can’t use that excuse anymore, about feeling bad, to try to get out of doing things, it won’t work. One must get on with life, and get gumption to finish a few projects. I sure don’t want to temp the fates.

I actually want to get back to sewing with a great big, “YEA GIRL, YOU GO FOR IT.” I haven’t got to do that in months, so I am straining at the bit to get started. I have been given lots of ideas from my daughter, whom I spent the afternoon at Hancock’s getting material and patterns. She took me out to eat at this fantastic Greek Place and then we diddled the afternoon away at Hancock’s while it rained.

There was a great big ½ off sale and simplicity patterns for a $1.00 apiece. Got lots of material and about 20 patterns. Yup I got enough to last me till Christmas. Only thing is these are summer patterns, but she lives in a State that is hot up till November. So I still got time to get it all done. She is actually my daughter in law, but we act just like mom and daughter, so I call her my daughter. She sews and loves it, but with kids, right now it is too much on her plate, so she is tied up, but she is actually motivating me to get with it when I can. She and my Son been praying for me to get well, as well. THEY REALLY ARE A PRAYING FAMILY. THAT’S ABOUT TOPS IN MY BOOK.

Then we went to Starbucks, for about two hours, and sat outside on the patio, and had a very close knit conversation of life in general and she actually listened to some of my ‘wisdom’ and I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT, and there she prayed for our 4th of July weekend and all we knew. IT rained cats and dogs all afternoon and the whole time we were at Starbucks. LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT and the talks were super, for I actually tried hard to listen to her point of view. And I did it.

I have just joined Lookville.com they are a fashion site. You can upload pics and ask others opinions on just how it looks. I find it quite interesting. Albeit I haven’t had chance to upload any fashions yet. But I am sure I will. This lady e-mailed me, that she LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT, MY BLOG THAT IS, and I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT, and to take a look at her web site. I find it quite appealing. 
here is her email.
Hi there blogger!
Just visited your "Levinslair" blog and I was super impressed by its design and content. We started our site Lookville.com not too long ago. It's a place for people to have discussions, share tips, and ask questions about fashion. It's been going great so far and I would love to have you on it! check it out if you're interested: http://lookville.com/signup?c=BLGUS&ref=fb_us And we would love to hear your feedbacks.Ciao!- Daphne G.

See I told you so.
Any how, Thanks for all the prayers that have gone up spoken and unspoken. I truly appreciate prayers. They make all the difference in this here World Scene. They are the foundation I build my Faith on. May all the sick everywhere feel a special tug at their hearts as I lift them up to my Father in Prayer. May they feel special and feel, LOVED, LOVED, LOVED!

Love Nina
Later more later, 

Sickness

Now that we covered accidents, I thought I just might broach the subject of Sickness’s. No one wants an accident and no one wants to be sick. But alas, it happens to the best of us, both of them. But sickness is in a category all by itself, for it has a much longer stay, than an accident which is short lived. A Sickness will come in, welcome itself, make itself at home, and just look at you, like, ‘what’s your problem,” this won’t take long, why resist, it’s gonna happen anyway.

Now no one likes to be sick. My particular problem at this moment is Bronchitis, which will not let go. It’s as if, it is saying, I think I’ll just stick around awhile, might even spend the night, like a friend or relative.

But alas, we know, it’s no friend, and even the worse of my relatives, is mild compared to this dude. That does make me appreciate all my relatives more, for sure. And friends also.

Some how or other, in all my travels this summer, I picked this frienenemy up. I should have known better, but it looks rather strange to wear a mask to visit all your families. Especially when there ain’t no Swine Flu Pandemic going around. That seems to have went to sleep to wake up at a later date and bug us no end.

But this mess, is horrible. This is as close to horrible as I can get. It almost went into pneumonia by laying it’s murky head on my lap, but my husband’s been pouring Chicken Broth down me, Our Daughter who is a Chemical Engineer has been advising him, on all the ways, she treats her children and husband when they are sick. She has done lots of studies on foods and is an excellent cook, giving only the best vitamins and minerals from the veggies themselves. She says chicken bones is a natural mucus thinner, and the broth itself is very healing for a sick one. I Also drink Gatorade, Tea with Honey and Water Galore, plus I stick in a Diet Coke and Coffee, whenever I can find alone and downtime. This is all to help loosen the phlegm

Now before you say go to Dr, I have gone to two of them. They just said, finish all the antibiotic or it will get pneumonic plague like. And take Mussinex that thinner of mucus. Breather too, twice a day. The last Doc even said, "I was beyond herbs?" Ooh that sounds bad. But what does that mean, even cinnamon rolls won't do me any good, or garlic either for that matter. I think they will, but who am I, anyway.....Sometimes I wonder about bedside manners, that actually upset me. I never heard of anybody in this world being 'beyond herbs.' That was downright tacky of her. I guess she didn't realize I'm a writer and you got to be careful what you say to me. Cause I got to get it out of my system.

But low and behold it’s still, hanging on. This is another case of ‘WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS’ routine. Where did God go?

    Well, I guess we all get sick, sometimes, and we all say, ‘WHERE DID GOD GO?’ HE’S THE HEALER OF ALL THINGS.

Or maybe you don’t do this. Well, I can’t hit the nail on the head, 100%of the time, can I? I like to think I can, if I am slow about it I can. But if I got any slower I ‘d be backing up, everybody tells me.

Anyway, the Lord says, ‘humble yourself before the Lord, and He will lift you up. James 4:8.

Well, 3 falls are pretty humbling, plus a sickness to boot, doubly so, for it lasts quite the length of days, so I figure I am pretty humble. I guess I have to learn to wait on the Lord!

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him......Psalm 37:7A
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.
So as you can see, PATIENCE IS THE IN, WORD. You gotta give the Lord time to answer prayers. Yes he can do it instantly, but more than likely, he does not like us, telling him how to answer prayers. He gives what is right.

Now I need to do something besides WHINE ABOUT MY STATE OF BEING. I NEED TO HAVE PATIENCE. YES, THAT IS WONDERFUL. THAT WILL MAKE ME CHEERFUL OF HEART.

ALL THE DAYS OF THE OPPRESSED ARE WRETCHED, BUT THE CHEERFUL HEART HAS A CONTINUAL FEAST.

YOU SEE I CAN CHOOSE A CHEERFUL HEART, AND A CHEERFUL HEART I WILL CHOOSE, THAT MEANS I AM CONTINUALLY FEASTING AT THE TABLE OF THE LORD, LIKE MEPHIBOSHETH(The lame son of  Jonathon-eating at King David’s table for his whole lifetime-because King David had made a covenant with his best friend.

So show no pity to me, because I am I have fallen 3 times, or am Sick, PRAYERS, YES, but pity no. And I really do not like tears. I like Silver drops of Golden Deeds. Lay them deeds on people. They'll love you for it. That’s a song I wrote. I Love it.Course I realize, sometimes tears fall and one can't stop them. Don't even try. Let it happen and get it over with. You'll feel better because of it. Cleans the System! Blows out the Pipes! Let's people know your TOUCHED IN YOUR SOUL.

Now back to Why am I sick? I do not know that answer. But I don’t need to know. I am responsible for what I do know, not for what I do not know.

Now I am not saying that I am not responsible for what I do. For if I know to do good and do not do it, that is Sin and I am held accountable for that. That is the Sin of Omission. Not the Sin of Commission. But our Lord does hold us accountable for both of these. Unless we go have, 'a little talk with Jesus,' once we recognize this is in our life. Life ain't fair, BUT HE'S ALWAYS FAIR!!!

Love Nina
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Accidents

Those creepy, weird, unrealistic happenings that catch us off guard and interfere with our DAILY DOINGS.

    Man, I had 3 of them in one house while traveling this summer. No one was responsible in any way, shape or form. I fell off a back yard deck, onto dirt and whacked my elbow and shoulder, slammed my hip and rib into the dirt. Second, I stepped downward off a bar stool onto floor, wearing my bunny suit, which is fleece and hit the Pergo, which is like trying to ice skate on the living room floor. This caused me to hit everything I did not know I had, and jarred most organs. Then 3rdly I was walking too fast, turned a corner and whacked my knee right into a rock point, off a fireplace ledge and landed on the floor. That one I don't know what I hit, beside my knee hurting WOW LIKE/I think my wrist was sore from trying to stop the fall.

    Now, I really do not know why, but I was in a state of constant pain due to one or the other or the other happening, on top of being sick with Bronchitis. It is a good thing my bone density is nigh onto perfect or I would have broken a few dozen bones, plus turn my insides into Jello, while I was in the process, of going off the deep end, concerning ACCIDENTS. I REALLY WAS BEGINNING TO BELIEVE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WAS OUT TO GET ME. AND THESE THINGS WERE ALL SELF INDUCED or seemed to be, OR I COULDA PLAYED MY PARANOIAC CARD.

    I talked to my 7 year old granddaughter, who was the only one who witnessed me falling, and she kept saying, "Nina, Nina you OK?  I told her I was. So afterward  while I was still hurting, sitting in a chair on this same, said deck, I told her, I did not understand why I fell off the deck, other than getting slightly unbalanced, but I been there done that before. I told her I was beginning to think I was doing something wrong. Cause physically I was hurting, but mostly it is humbling TO FALL, and it sure cuts you in the quick of your emotions spiritually, to do something stupid and out of the ordinary.

    She tells me, that ‘maybe Nina does, do some wrong things, sometime, BUT WE ALL DO WRONG THINGS, and things just happen BECAUSE OF THIS, but it don’t mean we deserve it or nothing like that. That God just allows things to happen.
    Well, I am here to tell you, that made me FEEL BETTER.

    I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT ANY BETTER.

    I quit trying to think about it, then ACCIDENT TWO AND THREE HAPPENED.

    NOW I AM CONVINCED MAYBE people better stay away from me, just in case, God was more closely involved in all this, than I had previously thought.

    So I asked her Dad, my Friend, and he said, ‘look in the mirror.’
    Now that made me FEEL BAD.
    But maybe there is a combination of things at work here. By looking in the mirror I had to admit, my need for more of God’s Wisdom, than I obviously had. So, as GOD SAYS, if we ask He gives it, and don’t hold our faults against us.

     So I asked. NOW maybe I could control some of these ACCIDENTS. BY USING MY WISDOM I ASKED GOD FOR.
   
   1. Like on the DECK BUILD RAILS SINCE IT IS TWO STEPS HIGH so next time no one falls off. Course, this is contingent, on understanding no one else has ever fallen, and maybe it don't need rails, maybe I just need a walker. There is always that possibility.
   2. Like do not wear a bunny suit made of fleece on Pergo floors during the summer.
   3. Like slow down while turning a corner INSTEAD OF RUNNING so I can see the pointed rock jumping out in front of me to grab my attention, and say, I AM HERE, SEE ME!!! I AM HERE, FEEL ME!!!

    Now I am not saying all ACCIDENTS ARE ANSWERABLE, OR THAT YOU CAN STOP THEM ALL. BUT SOME, NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, BEFORE THE BIGGY, NOT AFTER IT. COMMON SENSE WOULD DICTATE POSSESSING, THIS PREVENTION KIND OF THINKING. SAFETY OFFICER’S HAVE MY VOTE 100% NOW. TO A POINT, SOME OF THEM GET DOWNRIGHT RIDICULOUS WITH THEIR ORDERS, BUT STILL AND YET, SOME USE COMMON SENSE AND ACTUALLY IMPROVE A SITUATION. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I'M FOR SOME KIND OF OVERSIGHT.

MOSTLY BECAUSE:

 NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO ACCIDENTS. JUST DON’T GET COCKY, ON ME!!!
 NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO NATURAL DISASTERS. SURELY COCKINESS HAS NO PLACE HERE!

    Now I still, cannot give anyone else, any reason why some really horrendous ones occur, but I DO BELIEVE, ONE WILL NEVER GO WRONG, IN GOING TO A CHILD, WITH THE QUESTION, (THEY HAVE SUCH, SIMPLE ANSWERS) OR GOING TO A FRIEND, WITH THE QUESTION. TRUE FRIENDS WILL ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH, ENEMIES WILL PRETEND THEY ARE DOING YOU A FAVOR, BUT THEY ARE NOT, SOMETIMES!

I DO BELIEVE, ONE WILL NEVER GO WRONG IN GOING TO GOD, AND ASKING HIM, WHY? AND FOR WISDOM. EVEN WHEN OUR UNDERSTANDING IS DIM, WHICH HE TELLS US IS AN OK STATE TO BE IN. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO UNDERSTAND! GOD SAYS LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING! TRUST GOD!!!


    THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A TOUCH OF THE ‘UNEXPLAINABLE AND MYSTERIOUS,’ AS WELL AS, A QUESTION OF ‘WHY ME.’ WHAT DID I DO?

    Natural disasters, ring a bell, these we do not understand either. THE VOICE OF GOD IS LOUD IN NATURE.
  
    ALL IN ALL, NATURE’S WRATH BRINGS US FACE TO FACE WITH GOD.
        You will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. - Isaiah 58:9

Yiyaa

Well, I did it. I met my goal. Now what you ask? Well, for one thing, arriving at a goal, has the propensity to close the door on various sundry ideas and notions, that I have been writing about. It becomes the finished product of all one's, sum and totaled wish lists of goals, over and done with, never to be approached again,
ever. Like man, it's nice to have bragging rights for a change. It's called the JUST KEEP ON MOVING ALONG SYNDROME, NEW THINGS HAPPEN JUST AROUND THE CORNER. SHUT THE DOOR ON THE PAST!

 I really do not know, if I am capable of doing this, but I am working on it whole heartedly. Now we are on a Levins' Tour de Mid-West, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, so I have flat-lined. Visiting with everybody has left me brain dead. I didn't realize, how much one just depends on everyone else to make decisions for them, while on the road. I do like being co-operative and allowing others, to decide whats Ok. And WALLA, PEOPLE LOVE BEING IN CHARGE, FOR A CHANGE. GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHINE AT WHAT THEY DO BEST! HOSPITALITY AT IT'S BEST.

 Except for fishing trips, and that is an island, all to its' self. Fishing trips just entail getting out of bed and getting the jump on the hungry catfish. Like I said, earlier, it is very nice to have bragging rights. I actually have a whopper to tell. I caught a 2 foot catfish in one of the Oklahoma Ponds of my husband's relative. Now I did good. I even got to fiddle at the old home place's pond. Now that I loved. MEMORIES HOW THEY DRIFT IN AND OUT OF ONE'S MIND. Albeit, not a fish in sight, but hey, one can't be a winner every time. Besides, that is when, Music becomes Master, to make one feel like keeping on, keeping on fishing, at another pond. That is the mark of a good fisherman, THERE'S ALWAYS THE NEXT TIME, THE NEXT POND, THE NEXT PLACE, IF YOU'RE A TRUE BLUE FISHERMAN.
WHICH I AM.

Now I really have, had a blast, visiting everyone. Each house I have gone to, has it's rewards, it's perks and it's 'to do list.' This is to keep us from being 'bored.' Papa cannot stand not doing something. And I fight doing too much, for sure, but I can be persuaded, with a wonderful meal cooked by the various kids at times. Each house has all the best loving Kids in the world and Grand Kids. They are all appreciative of what time we have to spend with each one of them.  Since we are slightly  limited in our 'time travels' we have to go back to work and let all of them get back to their particular 'ways of life.' Yes, I butt in and try to tell them what is best but that is the 'preacher' in this woman. Which happens occasionally, just can't help it.

I guess what I am trying to say, is this. Life is full, of its' up times and its' down times. It is an upper to get to see everybody. It is a downer having to leave. But life is not a CONTINUAL FISHING TRIP, OR IS IT?
I GUESS WE SHOULD CONSIDER IT TO BE ONE. SOMETIMES YOU LAND REALLY BIG ONES, SOMETIMES YOU SIT ON THE BANK FOR HOURS AND GET NOTHING BUT A PERCH, 2 INCH ONE, AT THAT. SOMETIMES YOU CUT THE PERCH UP AND USE IT FOR BAIT, CAUSE YOU RAN OUT OF BLOOD BAIT OR WORMS, and just maybe you'll get a big one, with bigger bait. But you don't and night begins to fall.  THEN YOU CONTINUE, TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON, TILL THE DARK REALLY SETS IN AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THE BAIT OR THE HOOK.

BUT ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN. IT IS A BLAST AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN YOU REALIZE, YOU DID NOT ACCOMPLISH ONE DARN THING EXCEPT FOR PASSING THE TIME OF DAY. BUT IT WAS A MARVELOUS FEELING TO  'WASTE IT,' YOUR WAY! EVERYBODY'S GOT TO HAVE THEIR RELAXING MOMENTS. AND THEN, THERE IS THE TIME, WHEN THE BONUS COMES, A REAL LIVE FISH AND YOU GET TO 'EAT THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR.' WOW! WHAT A SUPER, MARVELOUS FEELING TO KNOW YOU ARE AT ONE WITH MOTHER NATURE.  YOU'RE A TRUE BLUE FISHERMAN. LIFE OUGHT TO BE SO GOOD. BUT HEY, MAN, DID I NOT TELL YOU BEFORE, LIFE IS SO GOOD. IT'S NICE TO WEAR A LABEL, ONE THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY. IT DON'T TAKE MONEY TO BE LABELED A FISHERMAN, ALL  YOU GOT TO DO IS, CALL YOURSELF ONE.      

SO IF YOU THINK I WILL NOT BE BRAGGING ABOUT THAT 2 FOOT CATFISH, YOU ARE WRONG. WHEN I GO BACK, I WILL TELL EVERYONE THAT WILL LISTEN. THAT IS CAUSE I REALLY GOT EXCITED ABOUT CATCHING THAT DUDE. NOW THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TODAY, EXCITEMENT!

EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING, EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT WE ARE SAYING, EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IN THE FUTURE. YES, MY FRIEND, LET'S PUT THE EX BACK INTO 'CITEMENT,' INSTEAD OF ME 'INCITING' YOU TO GET 'EXCITED,' I AM GOING TO TELL YOU, TO READ THIS ALL AGAIN. YOU WILL INCITE YOURSELF TO DO WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING ALL ALONG. JOIN IN, FISH.

APPROACH LIFE LIKE A KID, APPROACHES FISHING. DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN, LET IT GET YOU UP! WHEN BAD COMES YOUR WAY, PLAN A FISHING TRIP! GRAB YOUR POLE, DIG SOME WORMS, AND MOSEY ON OVER TO THE NEXT SUITABLE BODY OF WATER, YOU SEE, AND FISH.  IT WON'T LOOK SO BAD, ANYMORE, TO YOU. BUT BEST OF ALL,

GET EXCITED!!! ABOUT LIFE. 

THAT IS 99% OF THE ANSWER. THE OTHER 1% WILL COME ALONG WHEN GOD GETS READY FOR YOU TO HAVE IT.


Love Nina
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A Funny Thing

I HAVE REVISED MY GOAL TO BE REALISTIC WHICH IS A YES, I CAN DO THAT, I CREATED IT! GIVING UP IS NOT AN OPTION.

The closer I get to our Family Reunion, A FUNNY THING, is happening to my mind. I am 3 lbs away from my Goal. ALL I NEED IS TO HIT THE 30'S. And I figured out if I just watch what I eat I can still hit it by May 30th, my birthday, by getting really active and losing 1 lbs every two days. Which is feasible and easy enough and still remain on the healthy side. And I will accept it, if I loose more weight along the way.

But I don’t want to do it. I want to forget losing weight and be what I am. Cause we are having our friends, Grover and Kay over to eat dinner with us Pizza(which I love)and to play Train before everyone parts ways. I was planning on a sickly, kinda sweet desert but canceled it. It would ‘hurt me ’ to say, I am going to eat ‘smaller portions,’ which is what I would have to do. But I opted not to temp myself.  I have been trying to get back in the weight loss frame of  mind. MY MIND IS SAYING RATHER LOUDLY, DON'T DO THAT. HOW SILLY CAN YOU GET, YOUR TOO OLD TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE. Which is silly cause your never too young, or never too middle, or never too old, to worry about what you look like.
   
BUT HEALTH WISE, THERE IS A FAINT SOUND OF, 'DON'T OVER EAT!'  HARVARD HEALTH, which I ascribe to, DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD DO THIS, THEY EVEN ADVISE EXERCISING. THIS, GOAL IS A WISE IDEA. KEEPS YOU FROM HAVING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, DIABETES, HEART TROUBLE, ETC,.ETC,.ETC.

A SAD THING IS HAPPENING, MY MIND, IS TALKING WAY TO MUCH. I HEAR VOICES SAYING, EAT, EAT, AND THEN I HEAR VOICES SAYING, DON'T EAT, DON'T EAT. IT'S DOWNRIGHT DEBILITATING, cause mostly those Voices are my own.

    A FUNNY THING, is happening to my mind. But you see, my mind is playing tricks on me. I have already lost 9 lbs and I am getting ‘COMFORTABLE’ WITH MYSELF. I am thinking, hey, I’ll just put on LOOSE T-SHIRTS, and just go like I am. They won’t care. I repeat, THEY WON’T CARE. AND THEY WON’T. In fact they'll be so happy to see me, they will take me, VOICES AND ALL. Truly, I don't mind the voices, I just wish one would tell me how to stop that oil flowing(AN EPIPHANY) and I'll tell BP. I won't condemn um, I'll help um. Why, you ask? Cause I drive a big car, silly. And I don't like driving a bike all the way to TEXAS. Anyways back to the point. Yes, this drivel has a point.

    A FUNNY THING, is happening to my mind. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I AM GETTING TOO CLOSE TO MY GOAL, AND I AM GOING BACK TO MY OLD WAYS OF THINKING.
    TOTAL SATISFACTION WITH MYSELF AND OTHERS. I CALL IT THE, I’M OK, YOUR OK, BACKWARD SYNDROME. Like I said BEFORE, TOTAL SATISFACTION WITH MYSELF AND OTHERS. Why change? Why trouble myself?

    This is not how it all started. I was dissatisfied with myself and others. I was thinking, we all need to improve and can, if we ‘but try.’ But now, A FUNNY THING, is happening to my mind. IT'S SO SAD! I HAVE TURNED THE OTHER CHEEK, CREATED A WAY TO FAIL, AND DARN IF I’M NOT HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION. ALL BECAUSE, OF MY ABILITY TO ACCEPT ME AND OTHERS JUST LIKE THEY ARE. I AM BEGINNING TO ASSESS MY SITUATION AND SAY, THIS IS OK. WHAT’S WRONG WITH FAILING TO MEET A GOAL. NOTHING IF YOU ARE NOT IN A CLASSROOM SITUATION.

I THINK....... No one could care less, if I fail or not....... I THINK

    “But one of my daughters told me she had lost 15lbs and was heading toward her goal 30 more lbs.

    “And then, my other daughter asked me, yesterday,  how I was coming along with my weight loss.  I told her, beginning to flounder, and asked her how she was doing, she told me she had lost 5 lbs her goal. I said great. And I am certain the rest of my daughters will ask the same thing when I see them, because I have been giving updates every week or so, on how I am coming along AND NOT GIVING UP. Plus worse than that, I’m the main one, motivating them not to give up, to go for the  Gold and the Gifts.

    SO NOW, I AM DOWN TO THE NITTY, GRITTY, AND NEED TO LIVE UP TO MY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES AND REALIZE THERE ARE OTHERS WHO ARE FOLLOWING ME. DO I, LIKE THE PIED PIPER LEAD THEM OVER A DITCH, OR DO I ‘STAND UP AND BE COUNTED,’ AND QUIT THIS INFERNAL, YOU'RE OK, I’M OK, BUSINESS. We were not OK, in March when we invented this Goal, and we are not OK now, if WE QUIT BEFORE WE REACH OUR GOALS.

    This funny thing, that is occurring with me, is just going to have to become, just a funny thing, something I can look back at, and laugh about. For I am not going to quit, just because I have arrived at a very late date, and it is sooo eassssy to give up, for I know all of my husbands family will take and like me just like I am and still love me.

 BUT I WON’T. And since I have to LIVE WITH ME, I would like to PLEASE ME. And PLEASE THOSE OTHERS WHOM I MOTIVATED.

    I kinda think this applies to MY HUSBAND LEADER AND MY PRESIDENTIAL LEADER ALSO. THEY  MOTIVATED ME, now let THEM quit wallowing in self pity and the massive amount of problems, that face them, and get busy saying, 'I HAVE TO LIVE WITH ME, I Would like to PLEASE ME, and PLEASE THOSE OTHERS WHOM I MOTIVATED.' 

IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

Love Nina
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Stars

Shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life. - Philippians 2:15-16

This is not one of my Daily Devotionals, it is merely one of my Daily Bible Readings I got from Moody Bible Institute(great learning tool), but I assure you THIS SCRIPTURE, is most precious to me, so I felt like, yes, I could expound on this one relatively easily. It does seem, that I have a whole lot of scripture, in my Blogs, but that is Ok. Sometimes that is the STAR WITNESS.

I kinda think, this SCRIPTURE means, you don’t have to be a relatively Religious person, to fall into this CATEGORY, BUT IT IS OK, IF YOU ARE.

I think it is talking, to all of us, ordinary folk, for there is a multitude of Stars, just like there is a multitude of people, who can qualify for this description, ordinary! All it takes is AIMING AT GOD THROUGH JESUS. Then you are one who can ‘HOLD OUT THE WORD OF LIFE.’

AS JESUS SAYS, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE AND NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME.

Now that is pretty plain talk that even me can understand.

So wanna shine, POINT UM TO JESUS, Leave the rest in GOD'S HANDS, for them and for you. HE'LL BE THERE WHEN YOU NEED HIM MOST.***SHAMA(in the present) & UP AHEAD***

You don’t have to be a preacher, you don’t have to be a teacher, you don’t have to be an evangelist. You don’t have to be anybody, but who you are. You are qualified. YOU ARE THE CALLED.

There’s no shortage of STARS IN HEAVEN!

There is a shortage of STARS IN THE UNIVERSE!
SO GO AHEAD, SHINE! WE COULD USE MORE LIGHT!

Love Nina
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