What if.....?

I've been thinking.....

What if....the next time I catch a glimpse of my face in the mirror.....
I say something kind to my reflection?

What if....when I see my familiar image, I look for something positive
instead of zero-ing in on the blemish, the wrinkle, the negative?

What if....when I finish brushing my teeth or
washing my face or
fixing my hair.....................what if instead of travelling down
the old familiar
"oh my good gosh, what has happened
to me (sob)?" road

What if.......................I just SMILED instead?
Wouldn't my reflection just SMILE right back at me?

And what if I said to myself---------- "Self, you are beautiful."

I'm just wondering. How would that change my day?
How would that affect my interaction with others?
How much more confident would I be to go out into the
world and BE?

I once heard a wise woman (my pastor's wife Cindy) say
"Don't ever say anything about yourself that God Himself wouldn't agree with."

That has stuck with me for a long time now. I haven't lived that way always (at all).
But ---- I know she was totally on the mark with her words.

So.....what if.....
we ALL said to ourselves ONLY what the LORD says about us.

He thinks we are beautiful.
He says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
He Himself put us together just exactly as He wanted --- beautifully.


What if.....we believed it? and then ----

What if.....we live like we believe it? and then----

What would change in each of our worlds? and then---

What would change in the great BIG world?????


I sooooo want to find out! Do you?

Think about it ----

Gwynie Pie

Too busy! Too busy?

Is anyone else out there feeling like I've been feeling lately?

I've really been struggling.....

trying to keep up with everything

and yet...

not really wanting to do anything!

The JOY of life is dulled,

and the energy is drained,

and life has begun to feel like that movie

"Groundhog Day".

Do you know what I mean????

I have, for some months now,

felt all burnt out, empty,

lifeless.

And waaaaaay too consumed

with the Emergencies---

all the while I have let the

Important

fall to the wayside.

I have known exactly what the problem was --

because

I've walked this way before.

It's simple really.

I have "forgotten my first love".

I've become so busy

that I pushed my pursuit of the LORD

and his words

and spending time with Him --

I've pushed it right to, not the bottom,

of my list of "need to do"

BUT no longer at the top of my list

of "must do".

Knowing

confessing

repenting

changing course....

it should be the easiest thing in the world.

Why do I resist so?

In a word - Pride.

I always think I know better.

Until of course it's proven

that I do not

and

will not. ever.

And how He pursues me when I go off the rails....

it is quite amazing.

The sermon series at church has been

First Things First.

WOW!

Profound.

The first book I picked up

(of my 26 book goal for 2010)

is

The Magnificent Obsession

by Anne Graham Lotz.

Oh. My. Goodness.

Every word is as if it was written just for me

and for just this time of my life.

And every other thing I've listened to,

read, watched ---

has had the same message.

You'd think it was a conspiracy of some sort.

And of course, it IS.

The Word tells us that He desires to

spend time with us,

and that He will never allow us,

who know Him, to

slide backwards.....

He will always, always, always

pursue us

and bring us back.

He loves us.

How wonderful

amazing

glorious

comforting.

How are you doing on this 20th of January, 2010?

Gwynie Pie

Random thoughts on a very cold day

Every post deserves a picture, so as not to be boring, so here's my post picture for today.
Imagine me sitting right here
as close to this wonderful fire as I can get.

Ahhhhh -- that's nice. And yet, I'm still sooooo cold - brrrrr.
High today is below freezing, wind blowing. Low tonight somewhere around 12 !!!

HEY - I have a job. Yes, I'm going to work. Outside the home. I am the new postmaster relief
for one of the nearby small town post offices.
The opportunity to interview for the job just kind of came to me.
I'm a big believer in walking through an open door until it closes, sooooo -- now I have
a job, a very part-time job.

NOW that I have this job ---- I'm finding all sorts of projects I want to do here
at the house ---- and no time to do them of course .....cause I have a job. Ain't it the way?

I find that the absence of the Christmas decorations is SHOCKING to my system!
I love it for about a day.
Then I'm thinking "wonder what would look good right there?" and
am busy scouring through the closets and storage areas for something interesting
to go in that empty space.

Big football game tonight -- Texas vs. Alabama.
Being a true-maroon, die hard Texas A&M fan....
I don't have a dog in the fight. Don't care who wins. However ----
we will fix an enormous Sam's pepperoni pizza and
enjoy watching the game anyway.
Any excuse for a party.

Got my hair cut yesterday. An event for sure. I do that so rarely that it is quite the event
when it does happen.
AND something even more rare ---- I LOVE IT !!! Really, even the acid-test of looking
in the mirror first thing this morning???? Still love it. I'm thinking of calling the young
lady who cut it just to tell her that I love it.
I'll get a picture posted soon.
Truly - an amazing event.
Tell all your friends -- Gwyn Rosser got a haircut she loves. News at 10.

Well that's NOT all the "random thoughts" I can come up with, but I gotta go make a bed,
wash a dish, scrub a shower. Talk to y'all later.

Gwynie Pie