Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

This past week I have been reminded how my life used to be.   Full of DRAMA…   At least, I sure thought that it was.   I could make anything and everything dramatic, and I did.   If I didn’t like my job, it was a full out ordeal that EVERYONE had to know about.   If I didn’t like my friends or family, same thing…   If I was extremely busy, or at least what I thought was extremely busy before I had kids, I had to make a huge deal about it.   I guess life hasn’t changed all that much, but my outlook on life has changed and therefore, my life is changed.   Life is always going to throw curve balls at us.   ALWAYS!   There is no way around this idea, it is a truth.   Life isn’t necessarily easy but depending on how we look at it doesn’t have to be stressful and full of drama all the time.   I used to be so stressed out until I realized, guess what – the world doesn’t revolve around me…   A novel concept I assure you. ...

Recently I was blessed with the opportunity to re-hash Genesis with a group of friends.   We each took a few chapters and summarized those chapters and went through the group.   We covered it all in about 45 minutes.   It was a lot of information to take in, but also fun to hear our friends breathlessly try to fit in everything that they could about the stories that we already knew, into the short few minutes they were given to do this in.   The book of Genesis has an awful lot of drama.   Hearing pieces of it, I thought a soap opera writer couldn’t have done better themselves.   God makes man perfect, but gives us free will – Man sins- Man is thrown out of the Garden of Eden- Man has two sons- One son kills the other son, the world goes down hill.   God sends a flood to kill everything and start over.   He then calls a man who is really really old to follow him.   Abraham has a wife Sarah- Sarah can’t have babies so tells him to ...