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30 and Worthy :) 

4/20/2016

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OK, I promise... I do understand that I've been an adult for at least the last 5 years, but THIRTY? What. The. Flip? My cutesie twenties are officially leaving the building, but I hear it gets better from here, and that's nice... I'll take it :) 



​To commemorate the end of my roaring twenties, and begin my celebration to THIRTY, here are 30 lessons I've pulled from my last 10 sets of 365 days :) 

1. You don't have to be wrong to apologize first.

2. Save your money. You'll need it.
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3. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with milk makes a great breakfast. 
 
4. You won’t make it to work by 9:30 if you wake up at 9:07.
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Mood Leading Up to My 30th : )

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What My Birthday Did For Me..

4/23/2015

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I had plans .. and they were changed. The first thing I asked my sister when I woke up yesterday morning was if she was trying to RUIN my birthday. VIDEO clips from: ..My 29th 
Made by Mommy:)
I took off work. I had a schedule. I had appointments. And while she hardly addressed my questions, she did take the wheel and tell me what to do to be ready on time. She helped pack my clothes and people started showing up at random, very early, unexpected parts of the day, like my other sister, Cass. I was ELATED :) Cass did my hair for the day and our night out, but I had to wear blindfolds once I got in the car. Not too long afterwards did we "run into" my (or everyone's) brother, Maully!  He basically showed up out of nowhere to drive us around.. when I tell you I laughed for about 4 minutes straight..
This sign and his hat.. wore. me. out!
"Transportation to Heaven, only for those who are going to heaven.... But not today!!
 I still had questions, though. And they wouldn't give me answers. "Where are we going? What are we seeing? What's next? What time? Can I...?" I just had to trust that I'd be dressed appropriately for every stop of the day.

Turns out my day was packed with many surprises way more beautiful than what I had planned...  

We went to the movies and LAUGHED,  we went for a facial and massages, then we had Sushi for lunch & Tex-Mex for dinner - 2 of my favorites! They even scheduled a nap that I failed to take but at least they knew that I love naptime!!
I'm a planner by nature and profession, so let's just say that I was IMPRESSED:) Let's also say that right down to the last moments of the day, I'd already experienced so much more of what I would have wanted for myself, but had neither the capacity or thoughtfulness for myself to get it all done! 
Isn't that like God though? 
As soon as He "cancels" or "postpones" our plans we get shaky and think, "Why is He ruining my plans? Howww is this supposed to work out now?" Meanwhile, He just threw in a remix and upgraded OUR plans to more than what we could have imagined, more than what we could have figured out or properly executed on our own..

THAT was my day. My day - could preach, but I won't!  ; )  All I had to do was follow instructions, trust my sisters and "my driver" to take me where I would have needed to go to enjoy my birthday (or in the "GOD scheme of things," LIFE!). 

I had to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. I also had to take orders, but that's okay.  All things work together. This birthday was for the books:) I laughed until I cried. And now I have to figure out how to make their birthdays even more awesome in the years to come!

..If my yesterday... was any indication of my year to come,  then I will continue to trust and take orders.

 

My birthday served a great reminder...  God's plans are better than mine.
#trust

"Now to Him who is able to do (exceedingly and) FAR more abundantly than all that we [can] ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be the glory... in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."

Ephesians 3:20-21
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For Every Time - A "Psalm"

8/3/2014

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... for every time You didn't give me what I asked for..
... for every prayer you "didn't answer.."
... for every replacement, every removal -
... for every clear path, out of the rubble...


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For Writers...

7/24/2014

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 "A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing." - Eugene Ionesco

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." - Willa Cather
"This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard." - Neil Gaiman
I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. 
He does the writing. 
The pencil has nothing to do with it.
- Mother Teresa
 

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

- Anais Nin

“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” - Allen Ginsberg, WD
 

"Your writing is trying to tell you something. Just lend an ear."

- Joanne Greenberg

"All Writing Comes by the Grace of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

- Richard Bach

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.” -William Thackeray

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write;
 a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
- Samuel Johnson

"You don’t have to say everything to say something."

- Beth Moore

"WRITING IS ITS OWN REWARD." - Henry Miller
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged." - Erica Jong
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. - Julia Cameron

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin

"Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny."

 

- Alain de Botton

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly, every day.
- Unknown.
"I write to discover what I know..." - Flannery O' Connor 

Know that the Creator lives and moves and breathes within you. So those dreams? Risk them. Those words? Write them. Those hopes? Believe them.

 - Elora Nicole Ramirez

  
"A writer keeps surprising himself... he doesn't know what he is saying until he sees it on the page."
- Thomas Williams
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
  - Unknown
"I am sometimes irritated by my own writing...   I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." - Gustave Flaubert
Writers aren’t people exactly. 
Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
       - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” - George Orwell
"I can shake off everything as I write; My sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." - Anne Frank
Writers are the heroes of our age... Writers tell all or close to it - so we all can be better. Writing is a form of care, a high honor, a responsibility... Writers are messengers. Thank God for them. #sheaWrites
And all writing - is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it for themselves. - Unknown
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. ...Writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. -Orson Scott
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. - Barbara Kingsolver
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?      -  Kurt Vonnegut HAHA - sorry that one sounds so sad, but it made me laugh.. oh well!         ****************
 "Real writers don’t write to get published. They write just to write. Real writers don’t write for recognition or fame or notoriety. They write, because they simply cannot not write. By their gifts and a higher calling, they are compelled to create. Real writers wake up every morning with something to say. And they thank the heavens for an opportunity to do so. You are a writer. You just need to write" - Jeff Goins
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, 
but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it. 
- Unknown
 
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
- Lawrence Block, WD
The secret of good writing -  is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
-Unknown
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Quotes for POETS.

7/23/2014

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  "If it sounds like writing I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rythm of the narrative."

     - Elmore Leonard 

 

 The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. 
    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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TRY.

6/22/2014

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Playing small doesn't serve the world....
All your fun isn't worth a fail.
Is time like money, does it grow on trees?
Are you wasting yet another great commodity?
 Your gifts and time, your heart -- opportunity.
Don't you pretend, when you and I know...
Yes, you and I know...
There's more, much more...
 Wisdom will change your course.
Only courage will beg your try.
Try. 
Yes...you must try.
You know, and I know, what you prefer... 
You. Prefer. Peculiar.
Try...  You must try.
 Give yourself permission to fall.
 Give yourself permission to soar. 
Give your voice permission to speak. 
Give your heart permission to roar.
Own. Embody...Live your truth.
Grow and Give...
There's more to you...
#SheaWrites
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How Do You Know You're A Writer?

6/3/2014

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How do you know you're a writer?

When you wake up with an abundance of thoughts and remain unsettled until you put them into words -- on paper, on a recorder, on a post it note, somewhere, anywhere...

How do we know we're writers?
When our experiences cast an overwhelming shadow over our years of living, and at young ages we become, old souls.. When you know too much, too soon - and there is much to wrestle with, much to reckon...You write..and there's rhythm, you write, and there's resolve.    You write, you learn, you grow, and perhaps... you should share.
To write is to conquer fear --  if with might you fight for a right to privacy: a right -  to your own life. What selfish claim...
If you want to know what you're thinking, pick up a pen...
If you want to know what you're thinking, write.
If you want to know what moves you, pick up a pen.
If you want to know what moves you, WRITE.
Writers have one commission: With the amount of thoughts, questions, answers, resolutions and lessons that graze through the pastures of our hearts and minds daily... it is quite obviously God's will, that we write.
The world depends on its writers, its speakers, its teachers and preachers....   ... the people  who have fallen, gotten up, but given up their right to private note taking.   A writer can't ignore the world out there, the people who have to keep living a long time after their dying. A writer understands that humanity needs to know... how to love and relate, how to survive, what to avoid, how to overcome... 
So then writing isn't so much a choice as much as you are chosen. You really don't have a say in the matter.
You are a writer. 
You must write..
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