Fast Changes!

I thought of another very good saying:

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you get her in hot water.

(er, make mine Fortnum and Mason's Queen Anne Tea - loose leaf, please! =])

I want to share a wisp of something that is really a big billowing cloud in my life.

No details!

(There are too many of them, in fact.)

I just want to state the obvious.

(well, surely, you've figured it out or suspected it, by now.)

In the past couple of years - especially, the last several months - the most bizarre and pressurized situations have been attaching themselves to my life. They're coming from so many different directions (including within). Absolutely no one knows my full story. No one could.

I definitely live in a sunny spot but, it's more of a state of mind, sometimes, when there are so many clouds.

I'm not afraid of tough times.

We all go through them.

It's just.....

Ouch!!!

Something has happened, though, and it's forced the situation in such a lovely way and this small bird feels SO set free.

That is why I'm sharing this and I don't even know if all of you will understand....

it comes from who I am and my world view.

(....but friends can handle that, no?)

Actually, perhaps, it will encourage some of you!

I mentioned Ginny Owens in my last post. She's a blind christian songwriter/singer. What she's missing in physical sight seems to be concentrated inwardly and, today, listening to a CD that I haven't listened to in ages, I heard this song that just put it perfectly.

Here are her gorgeous thoughts:

I used to see the world in black and white ~ now I find myself lost in a fog of gray.

I thought the good guys always won the fight ~ but I've learned life simply doesn't work that way.

I once believed if I loved others they would love me, too, ~ but I've seen that isn't always so.

I thought that inner peace would come from trusting who I am, ~ but it's really about trusting who I know.

So,

when the winds of change try to blow me over,
and the shadows of confusion hide the truth.
I will hope in the One who is forever ~ I will run to You.
I will run to You!

Ever since the moment life began ~ humankind has tried to solve its mysteries.

So many things we cannot comprehend ~ so we draw conclusions that we can believe.

Well, I know that your hands have placed the earth upon the seas and pitched a tent in the heavens for the sun.

The Author of the universe is the Father who loves me; so, only one conclusion can be drawn...

When the winds of change try to blow me over and the shadows of confusion hide the truth,

I will hope in the One who is forever. I will run to you!

When I face the questions that seem to have no answers and I know my friends are but a precious few,

I will hope in the Love that never changes. I will run to you!

Though the perils of life seem so great And hope seems so frail ~ you never fail, no, Shadows may not disappear but You've always made it clear ~ Truth will prevail.

You will prevail!

I've felt like such a caged bird but that's just rubbish.

I am quite free!

I'm not scared of getting lost in the foggy days. Not afraid of the dark, either.

Actually, I feel a bit like I'm flying...and, definitely singing! =]

(and, okay, if you want to know - I'm dancing, too.)

And,

if you'd like to, also, know....

that is exactly where this image came from!

As Ginny Owens, also, says:

Beauty lies in the True Story!

The song "Run to You!" is from Ginny Owens CD, Something More