Turning the Page
Posted by ellen5e in Christian, Health, Home, Personal Experience, Ponderings on 01 31st, 2010 | No Comments
I HAVE TURNED THE PAGE! January 2010 is a time that I can look upon as a time of new beginnings. I continued to use my contemplations of December’s poor energy from CFS and come up with some kind of plan.
First, honestly assess where I am. I am in poor health and am driving myself unrealistically...
Imperfect Perfection
You know what? I am NOT perfect. Surprise! Yet, one of my personal struggles is with the character defect of perfectionism. I could even go so far to say that it is a sin, but I don’t know that I chose so much to act this way as it is a natural bent that has plagued my Type A, constantly pushing...
Crashed and Turned
Posted by ellen5e in Chronic Pain, Life, Personal Experience, Uncategorized on 09 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Some of you will have already heard about this, but since today is the anniversary date of a major life-altering event, I decided to reblog it.
September 17, 1987 is a special date on the calendar for me. You see, it was 22 years ago today that my life took a major hit. While driving our Kawasaki 550...
On My Knees
My friends and followers may have noticed that I’ve not been as
social online over the last week. Why? Lots of reasons, but primarily, high demands of many different projects all coming due at the same time. There were the annual stage props for a production at Madame Walker theatre which my husband...
Weathering the Storm
Posted by ellen5e in Biblical, Christian, Events, Home, Life, Ponderings, Spirit on 02 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Right now the wind is really howling outside my office window. It makes me think about the storms of life and about the sermon at church today.
The sermon was about Jonah and how he hired a boat to take him in the opposite direction of where God had told him to go. Jonah understood that God was telling...
The Lame Lamb
Posted by ellen5e in Animals, Biblical, Christian, Life, Ministry, Nature, Ponderings, Spirit, UBCafe on 02 18th, 2008 | No Comments
I would like to tell you of a shepherding practice that is used when a lamb continues to wander away from the flock. In order for the lamb that keeps wandering away to learn to stay with the flock, the shepherd uses his staff and actually breaks one of legs of the lamb. Then he splints the leg and...