Posts by Merrill

A picture speaks a thousand words….

Posted by on Aug 30, 2011 | 2 comments

The other day Grace, Jackson and I were looking at old photos that I have been throwing in a box for……years. We saw babies, birthdays, trips, school years, holidays, adventures, friends and family at all ages and then I saw this beautiful woman. She was young, skinny, beautiful, and full of life. It was me. YIKES!!! I thought to myself…Why did I not know, realize or grasp how beautiful I was back then? It hit me, most of us beat ourselves up all along the way, never quite happy with where we are in our bodies at any given moment. Never skinny enough, too many freckles, long nose, a tummy that has grown and shrunk with each childbirth…..the list...

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A bad moment or two, but not a BAD day.

Posted by on Aug 11, 2011 | 0 comments

Reading this new book by Regina Brett called, God Never Blinks. It had 50 short lessons for life’s little detours, something I am very familiar with…detours, wrong turns, back roads…. So, today I was at lesson 17. “You can get through anything life hands you IF you stay put in the day you are in and don’t jump ahead.” There were some great underline-able sentences (something I do to all my books) but the one that jumped out was, “No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.” Love this, because as I was finishing up this lesson and out walked Gracie to announce….”Mom my stomach...

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Apples to Oranges…the fruit salad of life!

Posted by on Aug 8, 2011 | 0 comments

I found myself in the bathroom on Sunday getting ready for church and was thinking about this woman whom I admire and love. I had a moment and thought “Oh, to be her, to have her life!” You see I had a feeling she would not be at church,  but that she might be up in the NC mountains at her beautiful mountain home. I visualized her in the cool weather, playing, creating, drinking wine or coffee just hanging with her mountain friends while I was home, sweaty and hot. You know I always feel closer to Jesus in NC. She also has this sweet husband with whom she and he refer to each other as “ONE”, holding two fingers up pressed tightly together. Now I...

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You are Mine!

Posted by on Jul 28, 2011 | 4 comments

I was power walking with Sunshine this morning trying to get in shape to be the “Mother of the Groom”, plus my 30 year high school reunion is a week later. Can you spell MOTIVATION? While walking I was going over things in my head when I started coaching myself, we life coaches do that sometimes…. “What’s going well in your life?” “I am Successful….I am a good mother to 5 amazing children, I am working doing what I love and am good at….” “I am Blessed….I have a roof over my head, food to eat, family, friends, Sunny the dog to walk with me, and a God who loves me….” “I have a healthy...

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A pigtail kinda day…

Posted by on Jul 20, 2011 | 0 comments

Do you ever notice if you get up and get going without showering that your day is more productive? I seem to find that to be true. It is not so much about the cleanliness or uncleanliness, it’s that you are uninterrupted. From the moment you wake, to the end of the day you stay on task and just keep moving. It doesn’t matter if what you have to do makes you dirty or sweaty, because you have not showered. It does not matter what you look like because these are the days you don’t care, you are focused. You can move faster in tennis shoes or flip flops than in heals…right? Clear head, dirty body…hum? Okay, well today was one of those days and...

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