Let's Do This

March 19,2011


I have felt the desire to have a blog for a while now. It started with a comment to a friend on Facebook around a year and a half ago. I only thought my life was turning upside down at that time. Knowing the things I know today I would say that I subconsciously knew I would soon be faced with yet another roller coaster ride in my life. 


I want this blog to be about perseverance, the determination and yes even the stubborness that it takes to get through this gift we call life. At times I have wanted to throw my gift back to God and tell him that I didn't like what I was finding inside of it. I would tell Him, "Thank you very much but I knew what I needed and wanted". What I was receiving seemed more like someones rejected and recycled gift. Maybe even a gift that had been tossed in a dump for years and uncovered and handed out to me! 


Yes I do talk to God like He is my buddy at times. I guess that is how I have made it this far in life. Sometimes I think I will show Him who is the boss.....Have you ever tried that? It doesn't work very well! Not for long anyway. I have to laugh at myself when I think about it. I can do that today though. Just shake my head and laugh at my self for thinking that I know what I need. 


My life has been a dramatic, traumatic, suspenseful comedy. I've been bounced, beat, shoved, and flat out drop kicked in this life. There is a difference between those and me that can't find the rainbow because of the storm that engulfs them. It might be that word that is so seldom used today...gumption: the boldness of enterprise, initiative or aggressiveness, Guts, Spunk, Common Sense.


That is what this little blog is going to be about. So I hope you join me for the ride. No gurantee that it will be smooth travels. It will be enlightening. It may even help you know that you are not alone in the struggles of this "gift of life" we have been given. I believe that is what we all need. Someone that has the guts to admit that sometimes we want to catapult our "gift" back at God and tell Him that we don't like it one little bit!