Heartfriend Originals

Some days are thankful days.  They are the days when I awaken and think of how blessed I am for so many things.  What's odd to me is how these days come at times when I don't feel so well, or have difficult decisions to make, or have disturbances in relationships.  I don't find that my thankfulness is increased by an increase in "good" events, but by events that are perhaps troublesome.  It's as if my mind looks for good more carefully when things are harsher.......and finds them.  But when things are really going very smoothly I can become pretty self centered and wonder why things are not all going my way.  These days have been days of immense thankfulness.  I absolutely love that.  Though I sometimes wish for more ease of life, I find that I enjoy the thankfulness of these times more than I enjoy the easiness.  It took me a long time to feel that way.  It's not really my nature to like difficult times.  Yet, maybe it's seeing that through hard work, through winter times, freshness comes.  Renewal.  Oh, yes I've written that Rose Buds is being renewed and rejuvenated.  A little bit each day.  If you come in you might find that it looks significantly different.  You should see the black vanity i just painted.  Oooh,  Ahhhh.  But what is most exciting is that I am being renewed.  Inside to outside.  It's not just an exterior makeover.  We've all had those........where some expert magnificently enhances all of our best features and makes us look beautiful........but still, sometimes we feel like crap inside.  The best makeovers are the kind that start in our soul.  They work their way out to our faces, to our smiles, to our eyes.  It's the kind of makeover that doesn't necessarily remove wrinkles but rather makes it look like a good thing to have wrinkles.  You know, those women with happy wrinkles?  Crinkly eyes.  I love a well loved, well used face....one that has done lots of smiling and giving.  For me it all begins with remembering Who made me and what He thinks of me.  He says I'm invaluable.  He says I'm to die for.  He says that I am His artwork.  He says I'm cherished.  And somehow when I start to hear those things, I start to be thankful, though nothing has changed.  And being thankful looks really good on anyone!  Try it on today.  Comes in all sizes.  All color palettes.  You'll find that it'll make every part of you more appealing. 

Well, thanks for walking with me on my ramble.  Have a great spring!  blessings, rhonda