Weddings, arg!

Well gentle reader (I've stolen this title from Stephen King), I put my digits to keyboard again for your viewing pleasure and to share my thoughts.

This weekend has been about wedding plans: Donna's, now Lauren's (congrats again, sweet girl), and the renewal of my vows. It feels funny planning an event that had almost none the first time. Now I'm in the midst of marriage mania! I feel woefully inadequate to help Donna plan hers and I really haven't spent any time planning my event at all, and it comes two weeks before hers!

I keep waiting for divine inspiration and none is forthcoming, maybe it would help if I prayed about it. It kinda has me in a funk. Where is a person's fairy godmother when she needs her? Well I will get down on my knees and pray for guidance and wisdom. Only God is going to get me through this 'cause I'm failing as captain of this particular ship.

Thanks for lending your ear, I'm just a wee bit hormonal and in need of a swift spiritual kick.

Ta

Two weeks down 50 to go

This is the second week of the year-gone. Okay, it's only the 9th today, but if you are counting on a Monday through Friday basis, it's week two. And, it's my first week back to work, a rather productive one I might add even though I had a cold.

The first of the year is like waking up in the morning on a Saturday, the whole year is spread before me like a vista view. Anything and everything is still possible, it's fresh and new and makes me want to get down to some serious setting things to right. Don't worry, it usually goes away in a week or two.

I really don't have anything special to relate or impart. I'm not a sage or a prophet. No powerful words of import from the oracle Janet. Just trying to keep my blog from growing stale, like (cough-Donna's). But what is better, publish and bore or don't publish and perish? Who is to say which is right? Not I, gentle reader, not I.

Jumping into the New Year

2009. Yep, that's what it is. Seems like just yesterday we were bracing for Y2K. Yet here we are nine years later and the planet is still doing what it always has.

I'd make a resolution but it has always been my resolution not to. That way I can't break it, it's failproof. But I do make some decisions to better myself, my lot in life, and my spiritual walk. What are they, you ask? I'd tell you but then if I break them it would signal failure. Better just to keep them private.

I will say that I think 2009 is going to be a good year. Don't ask me how, I just think that no matter what goes down, the Blaisdell's will be blessed. I don't mean bad things won't happen, I mean that God is in control and that He will take care of us in all circumstances.

It will be a period of spiritual growth, of a deeper trust in God and his character. That we will grow to rely on Him and His strength rather than our own. I pray that the coming months will not be painful but unfortunately, pain is where the greatest growth comes from.

Anyway, blessings are coming, just keep a watchful eye out for them!