- Hey All, the healing continues !!! the last two Dr. appointments have been very positive. I feel like the hardest part has been recognizing that I'm just like everyone else, I'm frail & human! Seriously though, I've never had to really deal with any major health issues, & if there was a year to do it, 2011 has proved itself to be that year. I'm feeling better everyday and owe a great deal of thanks to family, friends, and some people I've barely been able to remember, thank-you all I really feel a deep debt of gratitude.
- Enough of the lovey, mushy B.S., buckle up cause this one might get a little "Blue". I would like to start by sharing a little quoted material ...
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint". (Isaiah 40:28-31)
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland".(Isaiah 43:18-19)
"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you". (Isaiah 46:4)
"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him" … (Revelation 6:8)
- Hey, I know, "Bible Verses Stacey !? Really" !? But please, follow me, give me a little lee-way here, please. You see, I've quoted the Dali Lama, Nietzsche, The Buddha, I've quoted, Frankl, Plato, & Aristotle, that only names a few. The bottom line is these are all men who, one way or another, have committed thoughts and ideas to paper for the world to ponder. I have always done that, ... read, & pondered.
- The quotes from the book of Isaiah, were scriptures Sara and I chose for our wedding, at the time we were deep in study, and while everyone else was quoting, "Love is Patient, Love is Kind", we wanted to share something about who "we were", as a couple, so the whole quote should be read as one entire thought, I encourage you to go back and read it that way now. It speaks volumes about "Sara & Stacey", and if you've read it correctly, you shouldn't get much "religion" out of it.
- The last quote, from the book of revelation, is a very powerful one for me. As a person in recovery, I know all too well, what comes for each of us, and I've seen far too much these last 6mos. I've lived some 42yrs. and have seen young people half my age be taken, far too soon, far too young. Yet this is the way of our world isn't it? If I were to give you a shovel, and ask you to "build me a hill", what is your very first move? (assuming we are already outside) Certainly, to build a hill one must first, dig a hole!
- There are indisputable laws that govern our entire universe, gravity teaches lessons everyday. Just ask yourself the next time you trip. This one certain, absolute truth cannot be disputed, you cannot have something, without first there being nothing, to have life we must have death. To have heat, there must be the absence of heat, cold. To enjoy light, we must endure darkness. To build a hill, we must dig a hole.
- These last 6mos. I (we) have lost and said goodbye to 4 very special people, not the least of which was my mother. I have spent 2plus weeks in hospital, been back for Joshua, had a car accident, & put more medication into my own body then I ever did in the previous 41yrs. of my life. My take on the entirety of it all? There must be fertilizer, if we are to grow roses. We must endure the darkness, if we are to appreciate the light. As many times as I am convinced there is a God, I am left with times like this that cause me to doubt Him, or His Love for me, and yet my Faith endures. I refuse to share anything less then my truth, for anyone to expect me to believe otherwise is dishonest.
- The Rest I'll Save For Another Day, Keep A Heart For Truth, Love, S.
