It's A New Day~

I woke up this morning ready to get back to the "normal." To tell you the truth I am looking forward to it. I am excited about a blank new page of a year.

 We jumped out of bed ready to face all that this year has to bring. We start getting ready and poof~ the whole house went black. Our electricity went dead. We looked at all our neighbors who all had their power on. Ok~ so we call the electrical company~ to which we heard, "They will be there later today." Our house is all electric. This girl was craving coffee like never before. Funny how you want something much worse when you can't have it.  And it was getting cold~ what to do? My Hannah says, "Mom I need the electricity to get ready for work"~ still struggling with her bronchitis. (Which by the way has spread to all my sibling's houses as well.) She is a tad bit grumpy.  Like I don't know this~ I mean I am sitting in the dark with drippy wet hair too! 

So I decide to curl up in my favorite chair and start with my Proverbs for the day~ I then went to my wonderful new devotional~ have I mentioned that I love it! (by the way) I really want a new Bible so I told myself that after the past year I have had I needed something extra~ I mean I just really do. So I have challenged myself to read my Bible through this year and I plan on marking it up with notes and markers and highlighters and getting just what I am needing. Then I will celebrate and buy myself the Bible I really want no matter how much it cost. Yep~ that is just what I am going to do. I had just finished 10 chapters when the lights came on. Thinking I might just not make it as an Amish~ which is my secret heart's desire.

 So back to my story I read 10 chapters~still would like to know where God found Cain's wife and how in the  cotton picking world could someone handle this day to day life for 960 years. I mean for real~ I am already dog tired at only 45.  And Adam had many sons and daughters~ my stars~ they had to have a major miracle energy drink of some sort.

I have balanced the check book and counted the loses from the Holiday spending and decided I might just want to go back to bed. But I have a boy ready to homeschool and chores to be done. So I decided to start my day just a few hours late~ but I am smiling!



A.B. Simpson~  told a spurious story of a brand new clock. The maker had just put him on the shelf between two older clocks that were busy ticking away.

"Well," said the clock to the newcomer, "I feel sorry for you. You just got started, but you'll be tired before you get through 31 million ticks!"

"Thirty-one million!" exclaimed the 'alarmed' new clock. "I could never do that." And stopped instantly in despair.

All the other clocks chimed in, "Why you silly thing, don't listen to such words. All you have to do is make one tick at a time. One now, and then the next~ it's easy."

"Oh, if that is all." cried the new clock, "here I go."  Off it went, never stopping to count the ticks over the months and the millions. By the year's end it had completed 31,526,000 ticks.


I have lived long enough to have this lesson down but somehow I so easily forget this wise little lesson. We just have to learn to live one moment at a time. There really is no sense in borrowing sorrow or it's worries.

We can do nothing about the seconds, minutes, or even moments from last year~ so it is time to let them go!





So today with my hot coffee in my hand and my warm furnace now blowing I am going to live one moment at a time. I choose not to carry tomorrow's pack or yesterday's past on my back~ so I can tick one moment to the next for the rest of this new year!

I pray you have a great day!

New Year Blessings to you~