Simply Living & Risen Acres

  There has been a thought running thru my mind and I can not shake it off. You know when you have gone thru some hard times and you think you have delt with every inch of the trauma and then SURPRISE! something pops up and you now have to deal and cry over a new part of the trauma? Yes! This happened to me. As you well know about my parents divorce and how my siblings and I delt with the pain and that pain has now turned into a scar. A couple of months before Thanksgiving my brother's face started to bubble to the surface in my mind. I remember him weeping, not crying, but weeping. He sat at my table at 4am weeping many times during my parents divorce. I don't know why this image of him kept coming up in my mind.  I pushed that image of him out a couple of times because for one, I work every day, second, Thanksgiving was three months away and I needed to get my menu together and get the house in order. Normally, I have my husbands whole family over for Thanksgiving. That woul...

  Fall is here! Yay! Florida is really falling this year. What I mean to say is Florida is not hot like usual. We don't have the leaves that change with fall. We have the occasional palm leaves that fall to the ground. Gosh! I hate palm trees! The sun does an occasional blaze here and there. It's Florida! It's the season of perfect weather. We don't really get to sweater weather but sometimes it's cold enough we can wear a sweater. My family and I have done our pumpkin carving and gave the carved pumpkin right on over to the girls....hens. The girls devoured that pumpkin. This was the first year I actually made pumpkin puree. I made pumpkin muffins for coffee and Lawrd it was amazing! What a difference homemade pumpkin puree makes! Of course, I bought one pumpkin to be able to make the puree. If I had known how easy the pumpkin puree was to make I would of bought like twenty pumpkins to have puree for the year! I did go out and try to buy some more pumpkins but the ...

  You know what is tough? Is where to start or how do I start? The only thing that comes to mind is...well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in! That's it! That's all I've got! I've got so much on my mind that I do want to share and bam! I loose the nerve. Saturday and Sunday is my only days off. I do work half a day on Saturday. I have so much to do....to catch up on. Do you plan your day out? I do! I was thinking yesterday, while cleaning, how to overcome the fear of sharing deep thoughts? You know, for example, fears of being alone or why can I not serve God like I would love too. For some reason I was thinking about testimonies. I remember as a little girl being in church and our elders would stand up and testify about how good God had been to them. The elderly would say how they were still standing after going thru hardships. They would always say," I have served God for twenty five years and I am still standing here." As a little girl I didn't t...