Love and Kindness Has Been Overflowing...

  I am very overwhelmed by all the kindness I have been shown the last few days and my birthday.

From the kind words to heart-felt messages on Facebook....cards , letters and amazing surprises I received in the mail.

One of the things I found was a handmade blanket with I love you embroidered in the corner , it came from a friend of  mine...I met her and her husband at a hotel in Florida about six years ago, they are from Montana. We have written ever since.

I wrapped it around me and it was like a hug.

I also received a gift from someone I have never met....I do not think they knew it was my birthday, It was something I wanted very much ...I had only just discovered them on the internet, I was and still am overwhelmed.

It was a doll , I shall treasure her forever.

And there were more surprises.

I received ...so much kindness.

I appreciate it all and thank all of you.

There has just been so much love surrounding me, I actually am not sure how to respond...
If I could I would compose a great symphony or some sort of marvelous dance.

God is love and He has showed me great love through my friends.

Amazing Love

 Lately I have been thinking about love.....
  

How God so loved the world that He sent His only Son to pay the price for our sins.

I have been thinking how love covers a multitude of sin and how in Proverbs 10:12 it says... hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins. 

Also I have been think about how forgiveness works.

When someone wrongs you it is much like a wound, you can take care of it or you can pick at it and it gets infected and maybe even leads to dire consequences. But sometimes even when a wound is taken care of and heals it still leaves a scar....those scars serve as reminders of what happened and sometimes even old wounds still cause you pain.

 Forgiveness is something that takes work and time.

 Some people in my life have done things that really hurt me...but I love them a lot, I have prayed for them daily and somehow they can make a really big boo boo and I forgive them, but then there was a person in my life who I was not fond of and they said something that was not nice to me about my family and I still struggle with forgiving them, compared to the big boo boo... what this person said was not really that big of a thing so why do those words spoken so long ago sometimes still bother me?

I think I did not love this person enough. 

When I was praying for them I really should of been praying for myself also, I should of been praying for God to give me more love.

I had the wrong attitude.

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God . He who does not love does not know God ,for God is love.
                                                                                            ~1John 4:7-8

Also I know I have done bad things too...and I am thankful others have forgiven me.

We all sin. 

New Glasses, Family Reunion, And The Reason Why I Don't Sleep Very Well....

 My new glasses came yesterday and I am glad..my left eye was far blurrier than I thought, now it is so much better. The eye doctor really should of left the right side alone however, I am deciding whether to send the glasses back or not.

I got to go to the reunion yesterday and I fell asleep, I guess I was having seizures . No wonder why I get so exhausted. They get me while I sleep too. I 'm not going to talk about it anymore right now.

The reunion is days not just a day I have missed a day but was glad I went yesterday. My youngest cousin is super tall like six feet !!!!! I feel even smaller now. We talked about true love and stories that really ought to be on This American Life, school and what alternative school is like ( prison basically), and how I was....all I say is o.k.

Sometimes I am not o.k. but I lie.

Oh yes, I am planning to enter the Easter Seals art contest.