A New Direction

Beauty....its an illusion that is created by the standards of the world... Unattainable for many Impossible to achieve We are constantly told we aren't good enough just by the ads we read, the TV shows we watch, the music we listen to. We are led to believe that if we don't look a certain way we aren't good enough. Says who??  Really - who gets to decide that for us?   I have struggled most of my life with weight issues.  Too fat, at one point because I became obsessed with weight loss I was too thin.  I lived my life around what I ate, how much I ate, how much I ran, what SIZE my clothes were, that I look back now and realize I wasn't LIVING.  I was fighting.  I was fighting to achieve what the WORLD says was good enough. You are good enough if you have medals showing you can run a long distance.  You are good enough if you get a lot of likes of your picture on social media. You are good enough if you wear the smaller size cl...

Ocean Waves -      Powerful;     Forceful;     Strong;     Crashing;     Roaring;         Fierce; How can something with so much power offer so much peace and tranquility to our souls?  Its amazing to me that God, in all His power and greatness, can be so loving and soothing to us when we need comfort.   He created the vastness of the ocean - the depth and the width - and when I sit on the shore and look out, it reminds me of His love and His forgiveness.  He loves with an everlasting love - a love that is deep and wide and vast and never ending.  I love the beach.  I'm drawn to the smell of the salty air and the breeze that washes over me like a cleansing shower.  I love the soothing sound of the waves as they crash against the shore.  I long for Gods love as it does the same - soothes and crashes into me - a force that is so strong it knocks me to my ...