Narrow Life into Three

Each Monday night is shared among friends. We laugh, we share, we learn. This week we asked each other what the three goals of our life are. What timing for such a question because let me just tell you I don' t have a clue.
But I came up with these three:

1. To have a family. Let's just say I was a bit surprised to hear these words come out of my mouth as my first goal. I have always wanted to get married; always had that dream of finding my Prince Charming. While kids, kids were placed on the back burner. I just wasn't sure. I have done a lot of babysitting in my lifetime, and I just didn't think motherhood would ever be on my list of things to become. I guess more or less I was caught up in the fact that if I were to become a mother I couldn't be me, that I would lose all sense of adventure, and that I would lose myself. Times have changed, and thoughts shifted. So many have told me that I would make a great mother someday (someday being a LONG ways away). So yes, kids. I think kids are in my future.

2. To own a tea shop. Yep, folks. That is right. I would love to have a tea shop. Simple as that.

3. To live my life with God at the center. Giving control over to him, letting him lead me down the paths of my life. And knowing that I don't have to do anything with my life other than just live it!

Valentine's Day

Ever feel like your mind is running a marathon that you never had planned on running?

One. I am not a runner.
But I have been trying lately, with trying being the key word in this equation. A friend recently told me that the quickest way to get in shape is to run. Well I have been running, but more running has been occurring in head then my body.

Running.

Well it is time to stop running.
It is time to stop.
Stop, sit, and reconnect.
Reconnect with God. I would say reconnect with myself, but the only way a re-connection with myself is going to occur is if I reconnect with God.

Today is Valentine's Day. Sure it isn't my favorite holiday. I mean as a single always looking to mingle... let's just say Valentine's Day is good at putting the emphasis on the single. But this Valentine's Day is different. I got my early morning adventure, but that is besides the point.
Valentine's Day is about love. My Valentine's Day is about my love with God. I recently read a great article on Good Women that emphasized the focus of loving God. I think so often we get wrapped up in the love stories of this world, that we forget our story of love and life being written with our awesome Father in Heaven.

So who is my valentine this Valentine's Day?
God.

A Toast to Tea

There are a number of things I love. One of them: tea. It is simple: I love tea. It all began with one cup of chamomile in the marketplace of Northern Michigan University. For someone who use to hate hot drinks, I now declare myself an addict. It was love from the first sip.

But to me tea has become more than just a drink. It has enveloped my life. It has been there through the ups and downs. The hopeless romance, the burdened week of finals, time spent home, the accident, and new beginnings.

I sit here with a toast to new beginnings. I toast to a cup of tea.