Life with my sister

This little season of life is teaching me a lot. Keeping life simple is one of the main lessons I am learning. In that I am reminded how simple it is to do right, act right and think right. It cuts out so much drama. Focusing our energy on what really matters and making the best of those things is the key to happiness, I think. I feel I am more sensitive to others now. For that I feel blessed and cursed! I find myself saddened for those who choose to make life harder than it has to be. It has made me so much more aware of how often I have failed, and still fall into that trap of life. We are all sinners and fall short of the extravagant glory of God, no doubt. I just want to make it a point to keep it simple and do right. I think it is so much harder to stay in the grey and black areas of life and make life more complicated than it has to be. I am no perfect girl, and no one to model after, but I hope my quest for simplicity and purpose can be an example for someone else who is tired o...

You will think this is fun...or at least I think it is and it is my blog (and my sister's too....hopefully she will find it fun). I was digging through my jewelry chest last week trying to find a fun gold bracelet to wear. I rarely wear gold but am bringing it back, a bit at a time. Anyway, I opened the bottom drawer to see if by chance there was anything in my "keepsake" drawer. It holds my great grandmother's clip on hat earrings that I loved to play with when I was little, my choir pen from church, a charm necklace from a wedding I was in when I was 5, diet coke bottle cap earrings I wore in junior high and LOVED, a gaudy charm bracelet that has "A" all over that a leukemia patient gave me, etc. Anyway, you get the drift. Well hidden in a mesh bag was this gold link bracelet with a heart charm on it. I said "Ah-ha! we have stuck gold". It was a bracelet that my Daddy bought my Meemaw for Mother's Day in 1973. It had "Mother" engra...