Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year




A predictable new years post of course would include such things like resolutions, and contemplations- all of which I am incredibly good at. I can think of a few. This year especially, is great for contemplation. After all, isn't that what big break-ups, and major life changes are about?




Without digressing into my usual dismay at the amount of waste being produced through confetti, streamers, horn blowers, along with the sheer amount of electricity required to light that damn ball, and the thousands of kilowatt hours required to light every single thing in the country until well past midnight I will attempt to sum up the past and the future succinctly.

Past

1. This year I turned 30, and didn't grow a single whisker!
2. All of my gardening work, blah. Now maybe I can uproot Stepford.
3. Freedom comes with a price, but it is worth paying.
4. Friendship and love change everything.
5. Spinning is seriously adulterous.
6. Anything important is worth the wait.
7. There really is power in saying it out loud.
8. Thank you.


Future

1. More nachos
2. More dreams
3. More fighting
4. More standing
5. More loving
6. More faith
7. More knitting
8. More spinning
9. More belief
10. More eggs


And because I can't resist.......

Less waste, more recycling!!!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Forgiveness


This Christmas Eve has been one of reflection for me. A lot has happened this past year, which has completely changed my life, through which, my faith, has been both, strengthened, and challenged. Most recently though, I've been wondering about forgiveness.

This holiday, Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ, is essentially about forgiveness isn't it? Christ came to save us from our sins, to show us His grace, to forgive us, didn't he?

What are we supposed to learn from that? I googled forgiveness and Christ, and found many, many pages talking about getting forgiveness. Believe me, I am all about getting, and needing forgiveness, but what about giving it? What does it really mean to give forgiveness? And if we are willing to ask for it (repeatedly) shouldn't we be just as willing to give it? I think, in many ways that this is one of my major life lessons; getting and giving forgiveness. This week, I've had a major lesson in forgiveness.

So I step out, in faith, not forgetting- but doing my best to forgive, so that I can ask as I have given.

I forgive you.

Please God forgive me.

Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 14, 2008

130 Days to a New Day


It took exactly 130 days for the county to pick me to mother my amazing children. But who is counting right? Now it is a new day. We are changed forevermore. Healing, loving, and becoming a family. Yay, for we are The Quinns

Thank you God
Thank you Monroe County DHHS
Thank you Denise
Thank you Marie
Thank you Mary
Thank you Sarah
Thank you Stacy
Thank you SPCC
Thank you Syed Children
Thank you Evelyn, Laura, & Irene
Thank you Tiffany & Adam, Dana, Mom, Catherine & John, Jeff & Brooke, Tyna
Thank you Village Yarn Knitters
Thank you Dreams

Fingers crossed, prayers praying for the long and bumpy road ahead (filled still will legal woes and impending visits, but in the end 100% sole custody).