Live Your Life!

Well, I'm super exhausted right now but wanted to touch base.

This particular week has been a good week, a very FULL week.
May 10 - was Mother's day, May 13 was both my dad's birthday and Natasha's and mine 17th anniversary (read the post on that below), and May 15 was my mom's birthday!

---so I just want to honor mother and father here as well as my wife and our anniversary. I changed the first picture of Natasha because she had a fit about it but seems to like this one well enough for me to not get into trouble broadcasting her face over the internet. I think she is a little calmer now after she has looked at the blog a little.

My plan here is to have some slide shows soon, also when I learn how to actually do that, a few links to other places of interest, too.

Zachary and I planted banana peppers and sweet potatoes this morning and followed a frog!...which inspired him to want to look for more...down in the creek!

Thank you to those who have responded here or by my e-mail...I try to write back when able...so check the comments under the day you made and entry.
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There are a number of things that I am wanting to share with you this week from ponderings and readings and will seek to do so soon. The main words that keep going through me lately are "quest", and "digging deeper" but wondering if I should hold on to these for creating a blog about deeper spiritual issues and communication, keeping this one for more light-hearted content...still thinking.
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Gotta head back to the house now...let me leave you with this that you be encouraged:

May your spirit find definition in the material world (hey, remember that song by the Police?)
-let the transient events of the day be trivialized by the triumph of the everliving, everlasting Mind of Christ in you. Don't let any of the events of this day overwhelm or overpower you in any way!

-begin to receive your information from the voice of your Creator, rather than from the alternative messages that you have received since your earth-birth.

-focus on the larger ideas of purpose and destiny. Your life is more than your current circumstances...you are here for a reason...your life matters because it is a valid and viable part of the grand scheme of things. Believe this until you can feel it.

-Death has no sting for you, because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus liberates you from its grasp, and His eternal love produces fearlessness in you!

-Today, really live your real life.

(adapted from A year in the now-Bishop Jim Swilley)
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keep on smilin', get in sync with the flow of joy and not worrying today!
Love, Karl