Well, I completed Part 2 of my previous post a few minutes ago… and I somehow managed to delete it. My heart dropped when I realized that I did something really stupid to make it disappear and all of my efforts to recover it haven’t worked.
But here’s one of the great things about my fifteen minute blog… I am able to just get over it and move on a bit easier than I would be able to if I had spent hours on it. Though I may not be able to re-write that post as well as I feel it was, I will try again another night. Not tonight.
So I just set another 15 minute timer and have no clue where I’m going to go with this post. I apologize in advance if this is the worst post ever.
I have 8 minutes left.
That may give me just enough time to muse about something I think about kinda often:
Pie charts.
Wow, I can be such a geek. I do enjoy charts. I’m a visual learner.
There’s a certain reason I think about pie charts. Well, one pie chart in specific. At some point over recent years, I began to wonder what my free time would look like as a pie chart. I invite you to entertain such a thought for a few moments. It can be quite sobering and humbling. It has personally been one thought of many that God has used to revolutionize my life. At the time I had that thought, the Holy Spirit helped me examine myself honestly. I did not like what I saw. It was embarrassing and I was ashamed. God didn’t shame me; His kindness is what brought me into such a much-needed inward reflection. Our time here is so limited, so very limited. I know this and I was ashamed of myself for not living out what I know to be true. For when I accept this truth I know, I view time as a precious gift and not a
I’m glad you’re here. I’ve been calling Birmingham, Alabama home since 2013. I’m happily married to the sweetest, most selfless man I’ve ever known. Prior to meeting and marrying him in 2021, I was a divorced mom to three daughters for 4 1/2 years. When I remarried, I gained a fourth daughter.
On January 26, 2024, we lost my Dad. He had just turned 92 on January 6. He moved in with us the week after Joseph and I got married in October of 2021, and we had the honor of being his caregivers for the last 2 years and 3 months of his life.
I currently work full-time as a Fitness Director at the most wonderful country club, where I also have a full load of personal training clients. This is a job I have enjoyed since 2019. Prior to entering the fitness industry, I was an elementary/middle school tutor.
I have been a follower of Jesus Christ since I was a child. God showed me that He was real and that He loved me in powerful, unmistakeable ways during some very dark and difficult childhood years. As an adult, my theology has changed quite a bit. As life circumstances crushed me, I began holding all of the things I had been taught as a child, teenager, and young adult up to the light of scripture. As a result, I deconstructed my faith before deconstruction was really a thing, but never abandoned my faith in the process. After living through harmful teachings that were founded on misuse of scripture, I am passionate about the integrity of God’s Word. Nothing boils my blood quite like seeing scriptures used for selfish gain, abused, and taught out of their intended context.
I have been journaling for 25 years. This is my space of the internet to share the ways God has been faithful to me as evidenced in my journals, as well as anything else that is placed on my heart to share. I hope you find something here that positively impacts you in some way. All are welcome here.
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