Come on in.  Get comfortable and let’s get to know one another.  I’ll go first.

 

• As a kid I wanted to be a librarian.
• Then a veterinarian.
• And yet somehow I ended up with two criminal justice degrees, with one of those being in forensics.  I had plans once upon a time to go to the FBI and be a criminal profiler.
• Now I am a stay at home mommy blogger.  You tracking me?  Yeah, me neither.  The path of life often makes no sense at all.
• I have a serious lip balm problem.  🙂  I used to make my own!  My current favorite is the EOS sphere balms.
• All my life I have secretly longed to be a horse girl.  I have always always wanted horses and a ranch.  I found the show Heartland on Netflix recently and that seems like a dream to me.  In that scenario I of course am the horse whisperer….

 

• I would rather have print media than digital.
• Sunflowers and tiger lilies are my favorite flowers.  Tiger lilies grew up and down the sides of the driveway of my childhood home in WV.

 

• I have two tattoos and always have the itch to get another.
• You know those crazy coupon ladies you see with the big binder full of coupons at the grocery store?  Yep, that would be me, and I love it!  It’s a thrill watching the register total go from something you just can’t afford to like $20!
• I’m from WV and lived there till I was 8.  We then moved to NC.
• Driving through Times Square in New York City screams freedom to me.  I lived in NYC for  a month one summer.
• I love to cook, as long as I don’t have to then do the dishes as well.  I have thought of going to culinary school a few times over the years.
• I love books!  I love how you can open the cover of a new book and be instantly transported to somewhere else, or how a book someone has written can speak from their heart to yours.  There are stacks of books all over my house.  In fact I still have the very first chapter book my mother gave me at age 8.
• The right song can instantly change my mood.  I almost constantly have a song running through my head and often absently sing it out loud.
• I also sing along to any song playing, anywhere, whether I know the words or not.
• My number one dream house feature is that it have a full wall to wall, floor to ceiling library!  I need somewhere to put those stacks of books!

 

Your turn.  Introduce yourself with a fun fact in the comment section!

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

  When the world seems too heavy or it seems like God isn’t listening I come to these words and they reassure me, they comfort me, and they soothe my soul.  I hope they do the same for you today.

Wait

by Russell Kelfer

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;

Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.

I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate…

and the Master so gently said, “Wait.”

“Wait?  You say wait?” my indignant reply.

“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!

Is your hand shortened?  Or have you not heard?

By faith I have asked, and I’m claiming your Word.”

“My future and all to which I relate

hangs in the balance, and you tell me to ‘Wait?’

I’m needing a ‘yes,’ a go-ahead sign.

Or even a ‘no,’ to which I’ll resign.

“You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,

we need but to ask, and we shall receive.

Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:

I’m weary of asking!  I need a reply.”

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate

as my Master replied again, “Wait.”

So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,

and grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting…for what?”

He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine…

and He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.

I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.

I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.

“I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.

You’d have what you want, but you wouldn’t have Me.

You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint.

You’d not know the power that I give to the faint.

                  “You’d not learn to see through clouds of despair.

You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there.

You’d not know the joy of resting in Me

when darkness and silence are all you can see.

“You’d never experience the fullness of love

when the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.

You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,

but you’d not know the depth of the love of My heart.

“The glow of My comfort late into the night,

the faith that I give when you walk without sight.

The depth that’s beyond getting just what you ask

from an infinite God who makes what you have last.

“You’d never know should your pain quickly flee,

what it means that ‘My grace is sufficient for thee.’

Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,

but, oh, the loss, if I lost what I’m doing in you.

“So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see

that the greatest of gifts is to truly know Me.

And though oft’ My answers seem terribly late,

My most precious answer of all is still, ‘Wait.”

I hope you find comfort in the knowledge that coming to know Him and introducing Him to the world around us is the greatest gift our Father gives us.  Can you imagine the life lived without His companionship?  Without His love?  One where when the darkness closes in, that is all there is?  So, sit back, close your eyes, and be secure in the knowledge that you are His and that He is doing a great work in you.

Godspeed,

Mollie