Thank you!

Today I want to share a special thank you to you all who read my posts.  I will get more regular, though it has not been an easy task for me, because I tend to expend any "extra" energy that comes in on all the things I am behind on, so this gets tabled.  However, I feel I need to keep up on it, and I greatly appreciate the love and heart that goes into wading through all of this.  I know my life is challenging, and it is my daily deal... and realize it is often difficult to wade through someone else's 'stuff', whether or not it is easier or harder than your story, simply because it is not your story.  Thank you for caring enough to read, or even just being curious enough.  The surprise feedback I receive from people, when I had no idea they would care to read my posts, is encouraging, uplifting and gives me hope.  Extra hope, I mean.  :)

When a person is as vulnerable as I have been, with fatigue and/or very high pain levels... or even when the pain is lower, but CONSTANT, it can be scary.  You don't know if you will say the right things... whether or not that means you overshare, or you use the wrong word... and really don't know how people will choose to respond.  So  you can often be overwhelmed and on edge, trying to be careful.  What you are then doing is expending valuable healing energy to keep from offending anyone.  I give up on that.  I would never intentionally offend someone, so I let that go.  That is an internal thing for them.  I am doing my best.

Anyway, I digress.  THANK YOU.  I love you.  I truly do.  And if we have not met, we will have to remedy that and you will then soon enough know that I mean it.  :)

Blessings on you all!

Jen

Love is the answer...

Though not Lyme related, I wanted to share this.  It is important.  And it actually does relate to chronic illness, as it is allowed a foothold when the ability to receive and give love is lacking.  I am working on it.  <3

My response to a post on the recent court decision and how people are reacting:

As a licensed, ordained minister and wedding officiant, I am in a position to choose to love and embrace every person, or not. I just keep hearing LOVE, LOVE, LOVE over and over. It makes sense to love, as God IS LOVE.

Just as I don't share my opinion of favorite color with another, I won't always agree with others and their choices. How do I respond then to these situations? As I came home this evening, after having spent some time with a new couple in our community and realizing that they are a couple, and both male, I was searching for answers in how to respond to things that are very contrary to what I have been taught and I have been unsure of what to think or feel. I LOVE people. I cannot distinguish between people based on color, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, whether they are a cat or dog person, or anything else. Bottom line, each person is an individual who deserves my love and respect solely because they are a person and created by our Loving Father. Created by love, meant to thrive on love, and aught to be loved to wholeness, whatever our Creator means that to be. As I felt a sense of freedom to love, JUST LOVE, and recognizing THAT is my responsibility, and that is pretty much it, I felt joy and excitement at even more opportunities to show that love. Then as I approached my building, a song went through my head that stood out as an excerpt of scripture, which I then looked up. Then I smiled and my heart laughed because it confirmed it all...

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (It even covers the sin of judgment, which many should be very grateful for. I know I am. And am also quite grateful that my erroneous thinking has been cleaned up... kinda funny on how difficult it is to judge someone you are loving. heh)

Regardless of what is right and wrong, you love. As Jesus did. And I admire and look up to Him and want to be JUST LIKE HIM!

Whatever you have done, are doing, will do, or didn't, aren't or won't be doing will not pull you out of a place of the love I have for you. Even when sometimes I don't like you or something you are doing, I can always still love you. Whoever you are, wherever you live, whether or not we know each other... LOVE. It really is the answer. Or should I say HE really is the answer. Love, He is the answer. :)

Overdue...

I have not written in a while.  It has been sporadic, at best.  Often it feels like a chore I just don't have energy for, yet when complete, I feel a sense of accomplishment and relief.  I feel like, just maybe, I said something that someone, somewhere will appreciate.  For some time now, I have had to try to use Siri to post and not type it up.  Predominantly as I did not have a laptop to use, and sitting up at a desk is not always the best thing for me.  You can often tell I was not typing it up, as the words or grammar will come out wrong.  To vs too or two, there vs their... you would think it would be obvious, but apparently that is not always the case.

The fun news is that Jim has taken on some side work and surprised me with a laptop!  I don't think I am all that easily surprised, but I was this time!!!  How amazing... so here I am.  I should be sleeping, but I need to jot a note and hope it helps me sleep.

Here is a brief list of what I am up to:

I am setting up a schedule so I can complete my wedding and event planning course, plan my doterra time, organize kiddie stuff while school is out, start a teeny exercise program slowly, organize my home some, etc. I have far more things to do than I do energy.  Perhaps I should spend some MORE money, sheesh, and get the couple supplements for energy.  Maybe I don't have enough faith in them.  But how can I know if I don't try?  Oh, one more thing... I will be scheduling some time for writing and blogging about using doTERRA's lyme disease protocol.  That isn't all, but is a start...

That is all for right now... I want to check something, and I need to sleep.  I think I can now.

Thanks for reading, and I will plan to write more regularly now that I don't have a very good excuse not to. ;)