Rules to Happiness #142

Forgiving yourself is harder than forgiving anyone else.

Rules to Happiness #141

It's okay to hide.

Notes

It's been three days since I had caffeine. Lord, what did I do to deserve this? *pouts*

Rules to Happiness #140

Your greatest love story is still being written.

I Solemnly Swear....

My Mother always told us that we needed to use our gifts from God. Then she told me that I could be very frustrating at times- like I had a gift.  Now that I'm older I realized that the two are really very connected.

 

I spend a great deal of my time calling doctors offices, hospitals, post offices, and insurance companies. I hound people until they give me the paperwork I need to help the people I'm supposed to help. On more than one occasion I've been described as annoying. I may be consistently polite and sweet tempered, but I never forget what any person I talk to promises to do for me. And this drives them crazy because THEY forget.

 

And today I realized something- I can still use my gifts. I solemnly swear to be a nuisance for the greater Glory of God.

Tap Dancing Purple Semis

A friend of a friend has this theory, that whenever she is uncertain about something, or wants God to make a decision for her, she asks Him to send her a sign: a purple semi truck.  Now you or I or anyone who lives anywhere near civilization will probably see a purple semi on a semi regular basis. It may be that we don't see just purple semis because they aren't the most popular color, but we see them. She doesn't see them at all except when she's asking God for an answer.  She calls it the "tap dancing purple semis" because when she sees them that's ALL that she sees. I find this more than a little humorous. 

 

Since I heard this I tried to view seeing a purple semi the same way. Obviously this doesn't work as well because 1.) it's not my sign and 2.) I go in the Interstate at least twice day near one of the larger cities in Texas and consequently I see lots of purple semis.  That being said there are still some days where it seems that I am surrounded by them and they make me smile. 

 

I tried testing her theory a few months ago- to see if He would show me what He wanted in a more tangible way. And all of a sudden all I could see were purple semis. Unfortunately, I STILL didn't know what He wanted. It seems the more I saw the semis the more lost I was.  And then, about a week ago, while stuck in a horrible traffic jam, that maybe the point wasn't supposed to be that He was giving me the answers. Maybe the point of the semis- the point of the sign from Him- was to remind me that He's still there.

Rules to Happiness #139

Perhaps God's message isn't there to tell you what to do, but to remind you that He's still here.

Rules to Happiness #138

Good can come from bad.

Rules to Happines #137

Sometimes you just make stupid mistakes.

Rules to Happines #136

There isn't enough coffee in the world to fix some levels of stupid.