What is "NEW"?

We are always confronted with the word NEW. A NEW product. A NEW star in Hollywood. A NEW discovery in science. But are these really new? The new product, could it not be a reworking of something that came before? Same with the discovery? Is it really new or was it always there just out of the realm of visualizing or understanding? Let's take the bible. Are those concepts new or have they been around since the beginning of time? If you do an in-depth study of God's commandments they appear to be the same throughout the bible. Nothing has changed. And according to the writer of Hebrews He will never change. So is anything really new? Probably not, especially not to God. How holy and wonderful that this has all been present since God sang the world into existence!!!

So this is Christmas!!!

This is what Christmas is all about, spending time enjoying the blessings of friendships that God has given and will give you. Spending time enjoying the blessings of God in terms of God's great grace and love. And soaking it all in. Father God invented love, invented peace and in living in all of those breaths of life He loved us enough to send His Son who showed us the way, sending light into this life so that we might know God's love. This is the greatest Christmas present of all... His love...

Still Waiting

When will my business take off? When will I have enough business to supplement my retirement. When will I be able to breath a little easier? How about when God decides? How about when He decides that it is time for business to take off. It is the end of the year and people are dealing with Christmas. They cannot think about their animals While I may be biting my nails deep down I believe it will be taken care of. I know that He is in control and it is all about His timing, not mine. He led me to be in Kentucky, He led me to be a writer. He led me to open this practice, And that gives me the impetus to hang in and hang on. It may be years but I can last. I can do all things with Him...

AT HOME

I must admit, I love being home. I've dreamed of staying home since I started 20 years ago with the federal government and was a relief veterinarian, Home to me, means reading, means walking, means cooking, means photography, means playing and jostling with the kitties. I do like keeping busy and plan to volunteer with various centers for animals and having my practice and I do tote mom around to her doctor's appointments whether or not I think she should go. Let me repeat: whether or not she should go. My mom is in her 90s and there are times she feels the need to see a dermatologist because she is afraid of the "bugs" in my house which are really just her imagination or perhaps a dermatosis brought on by her diabetes,confirmed by the dermatologist by the way. She has no bugs. she is depressed by staying at home. She won't go walking with me, she won't go to the Senior Center, she won't make new friends. Whether or nor it is because she is in her 90s and refuses to be nice, or whether it is she doesn't trust people,I am uncertain. But I do know that she is not physically sick.She is depressed. I on the other hand love being at home. I love going out because I want to. I love not living in hotels.I love being able to have lunch with friends whenever I want to. It is a time for me to grow, and would be a time for mom to grow if she would relax and let it grow. Mom is just afraid and that is not what being at home is all about. It takes a special person to stay at home.One who knows fear and has faced it over and over and not given into it.I pray mom gets her bravery back. I pray I never lose my bravery.