Pink bubbly wine and colour full family!

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Happiness is having people you love!

Happy new year everyone! 2022 is here, and my theme this year is “Colour Fully Alive”!

I am on a mission to see and experience as much colour as I can.

I want to smell, touch, taste, listen and observe colour.

I want to feel colour! I want to discover new colour. I want to absorb colour into my soul and radiate colour.

And I don’t want to be just one colour, I want to be and experience all the brightest, happiest, peaceful colours.

How do you experience colour?

Well I asked my friend to pick up some sparkly wine for to bring in the new year. She chose a pink wine, “because it made me happy”, she said.

My cousin created this colourful delight to feast our eyes and taste buds on.

Mouthwatering beautiful

What about this great red lipstick? It brings my face alive!

I want to live Fully-Coulourfully-Alive this day January 1 2022, because there will never be another day like it.

What colours do you find makes you feel colour-fully-alive? And for curiosity sake why?

Colour of Life

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I walk in a stupor, surrounded the past two years by a grey wash.

I fight and fight to push back the grey to allow the Son to fully illuminate the colours of life.

Tired of the fog that fights for my soul, the darkness that rushes in.

The speed it tries to goad out of me.

Faster and faster, heavier loads, stuff, clutter, responsibility.

What would it all mean, if it were to end tomorrow. If time here were to stop.

I want to see the full colour of life.

I want to see the world around illuminated and basking in the light.

I want to sit in quiet wonder, with no where pressing to go, nothing needing to be done.

Light where are you? When will the grey be pushed away, and the new colour full world take shape before my eyes.

Stepping through the grey. Today is a new day. Come full colour, come.

…and just like that Christmas festivities were over.

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A marathon of preparation, decoration, relocation. Then we hustled and bustled. We ate and we laughed. Barely had time to stop for a breath.

Christmas morning came the kids were ready for stockings, presents and the traditional breakfast bake.

Seemed like no time, that the house looked shaken and stirred and tossed like a salad, laughter ran freely for a little while.

Then the house grew quiet, adults resting, kids out sledding. My mind quickly returned to when I was a child.

Back in those days huge family gatherings Christmas Eve, and Christmas morn griddle cake and cheese bake. In the afternoon off to Gran & Grandpa C’s. Food and cousins and bouncing on Grandpa’s knee. The nostalga felt painful this year, as Grandma is tucked in a nursing home not so near. 💔

When the kids came back shared food and gifts with friends. Then evening fell no one complained when it was time for bed.

A trip back to the city and back and all of a sudden, just like that, it was over for another year.

Preparing for Christmas

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Fred’s birthday

Well now that my son’s birthday is over, I can get down to the business of Christmasing. I can’t get over the fact that my baby boy turned 16 this year. Time goes by too quickly.

Christmas has always been a magical time for me. I love the lights, the trees, the presents, the people, the food and yes even Santa Claus.

The production of such an event takes time and effort. The decorating, the shopping, the preparing, the ribbons and bows. To be honest as fun as it is on Christmas morning, the stress of getting it all right has been a bit much to handle at times. If I am completely honest it still is to an extent.

So today, now that Fred has had a happy birthday, I turn my heart to preparing Christmas. Making my list, checking it twice, hoping to find the gift that’s just right.

I love gifting, I love hospitality. I love preparing Christmas breakfast, an old family tradition. I love the love.

The Love of course is the main focus. The road to the cross, the lowly manger where my savior was born, the revelation that my heavenly Father cares and wants a personal relationship with me, His brutal death in my place on a cross, and His resurrection and promise that He will go ahead to prepare a place for me in heaven.

The Love ❤, the heart of Christmas. How easy it is for it to get swallowed up in the hustle and bustle, the processing of ribbons and bows. Consumed by the crowds and the loud and rush and the stress and the mess.

Today I prepare for Christmas. Making my list. Checking it twice. But one more thing, checking my heart, have I been naughty or nice.

Today I prepare for Christmas, search my heart Lord, turn it fully back to you. Prepare us for the greatest gift us humans ever knew.

May the still peace of Christmas be with you as we prepare this week.

The enemy: fatigue

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Learning to pace ones self seems to be a most important aspect of maintaining self-control and getting to one’s goals.

Am I the only one that works like a mad man gets loads done, then crashes and burns in a blaze not so glorious?

I personally like to use timers when I am at home. Maybe it’s a throw back to school bells. I need reminders to take breaks, to eat meals, and to get up and do some more.

When I continually forget to pace myself I end up, tired and cranky or eating an entire box of gluten-free crackers while mindlessly watching useless fluff on t.v. and playing addictive games on my phone. Leaving me down on myself, and frustrated.

How do you pace yourself through the day, so your ending is as glorious as the beginning?

Planning into the new year…

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Lose weight by maintaining healthy eating habits. Add back in exercise.

Write everyday. Get beyond chapter 2 of my book. Blog. Prayer journal. Cards and letters.

Get outside to take photos of God’s beautiful artwork.

Spend more time at the mill.

Have experiences with friends and family and Tim.

Enjoy the moment.

Finish BA.

Find an organization system that works for me.

Give thanks.

But most of all “seek first the kingdom of God” so that all these things can be added.

What does your goal list look like?

Father direct our paths as we end this year and begin the next, if it is within Your will.