Hey Readers...YOU can help

Yes that's right. I have 2 ways you can help me and this blog. Please consider....then act. Thanks heaps. And thanks to those who have passed on messages about how they are enjoying the blog and getting something from it. Fantastic....my mission is being accomplished!

Here's #1: I am soon to post #6 in the Surviving Singleness series. That's currently my last post in that series, unless you want more:) If so, you might have a suggestion for a topic or theme or perhaps you have a question I could help answer. Yes? Then please FB message or email me or leave a comment on the blog and I'll see what I can do.

And way to help #2 - don't forget Friday Friends & Faves is a place where you can tell your story...or a  part of it. Please email me with a few lines / pars / pages that I can use to fill Friday, but more than that, encourage others. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. Or how exciting or dull you feel your story is. Or if you can write well or you struggle. Go on...have a go!

First Post....WELCOME

Not sure who might read this blog...if anyone (Hi Megan and Taryn!).....but feel like an online journal might be the way to go for me in this stage of life.


'Stage of life'....no not menopause! But being a stay-at-home Mum...with a little more computer access time on my hands, I thought I might try to be somewhat productive and in the meantime, see if using up some of those thousands of words I have to say every day could possibly encourage someone in their day.


So my rough plan is to say something...hopefully meaningful....that might challenge, inspire, encourage and bless YOU - the reader. And as for the title...Keep It Real....I will blog what I think...really....no lies or platitudes here. Bare bones....my thoughts, ideas.....reality for me. I promise.  And I am praying that God might use this 'realness' to speak to you.


To start...I read Proverbs 26 http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Pro&c=26&v=1&t=ESV#top this morning. I have been reading through the Bible this year...a challenge my sister and I set for ourselves back in December last year. It was been an eye opening experience as I (good Christian girl from way back) discover stories and verses that I have never heard before!  God has been speaking....not so much out of Leviticus as through other books though:) and I have been trying to listen. I might write some posts retrospectively (Yay for BIG words!) to fill you in on some of the exciting things God was showing me in August....May.....February.


Anyway...Proverbs 26 partly confirmed the blog idea which had been an inspirational thought during the 1.36am feeding time of dear little Jacob this morning! Have a read (click that link in the par above) and see how many times the writer uses the word 'fool' and note...it's never as a compliment.


Foolish is not what I want to be. I can't afford to be...because: a) God doesn't desire that for me...b) my husband and son don't want that from me....c) friends and family will not benefit if I am foolish. And so often, I can be...in my 'stinkin' thinkin''.....in careless words...in time wasting.....in majoring on the minor things in life. God is clearly reminding each one of us that the thoughts we have, the words that come out of our mouths and the actions of our hands reveal us to be either wise or foolish. 


I especially like vs 26:18-19.....what a picture! "Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death..." And what a challenge it is to read that I am considered a 'madman' who brings danger, injury, destruction, death when I run around saying things that aren't true...be they flat out lies or part truths. God help me to be honest...always...but also considerate in the way I share that honesty.


A simple thought...most in Proverbs are. But what a lesson for life.....to live real for God....be wise....avoid folly......think truth.....speak truth....live truth.