40 years plus....gone.

Maybe 40 years yet to come...

...if so,

that gives 14,600 days of possibilities.

What will be accomplished by choice or by default of not making a choice (which is ultimately a choice) with those next 14,600 days?

I took this photo of our boys when we lived on our ranch/farm in Kansas.  It is a favorite of ours.  Almost six years ago now, and it hangs on our wall in a large gallery wrap colored in black and white.

We have had so much fun over the years.  Posing for the photos, doing the mom and the boys "things" while dad was working on our land and at a job, or on another friends land, sometimes all three in the same day. 

These two boys, now young men fill my heart with love!  God has placed a contentment and a joy in our lives, and that is such a blessing.  There is no amount of words that can describe that inner peace.

Peace...

We saw on TV tonight, some things that are just not fathomable....where there is no peace.
We saw that there is a "slave industry" around the world.  
It is a $32 Billion dollar market yearly! 
In our day! 
In our world. 
Our U.S.A. is also included in this...we are not excluded. 

How can this be? 

Can we do anything about that which we are hardly aware of? 
Here is a site to open our awareness... http://www.demiandashton.org/advocate-2-eliminate and to do something about it...if we so choose to.

Personally we are more than "blessed" to be where we are...so now, how can we touch one life and help that person know that they are valued, loved by God and man, and lift them from their unimaginable pain?

That is something that each of us has to decide.

Look away...and walk away.
Look, become informed and make a stand. 

One step...one day...one person...one at a time.

What is your choice?
14,600 days to go.

We are not born losers. We are not born winners. We ARE born choosers.

While doing genealogy over the past several years...I have found cemeteries where others would never have known they existed.

Finding and documenting the information on the stones and correlating that with information on paper.  My husband always asks,"Why?"  It is hard to explain what the draw is...but it is there.

I often wonder, as I know so many living relatives that are just hard to be around and others that draw me to them, what category all of these found names and stories would have been "special" to be around ...or not so much. 

What mark would they have made on my life?  What mark have they made that I am completely unaware of now?

Some from Germany, some from Ireland and England, early on from Spain....they moved...voyaged across the pond, in hopes of having what I now have.  The knowledge of Christ being the Messiah and my savior, my Peace and my Freedom. 

So whether the personalities, political leanings, and religion are at times uncertain...their chosen paths, brought me here.   

Our choices today, will affect/effect so many generations ahead of us.  With this knowledge, our choices must be well planned and prayed over. 

We plan to bring a child across the pond this next year. 

What will that do for the generations that are to come from her? 

I hope the very same that my ancestors have done for me.

Thankful!

W.

The first moment of all the moments yet to come...

This is my first post....with many more to come if the Lord so blesses my days to be many more to come.
As I type, I wonder where I should begin.  What direction should this blogging journal go? 
Where I am now, where I have came from, or where I have yet to go?

So, I suppose I will simply bounce around with all three directions, since that is somewhat my personality.

As I type, our Napoleon Pellet Stove flames and warms and comforts the ambiance of the room in which I set and type.  Reclined on this sofa, with an almost 13 year old Yorkie, Tickles, laying beside my legs and a seven year old Cavalier, Winnie, laying at my side, I am at peace.  Susan Boyle's, The Gift, CD plays in my Hp that sets on my lap.

My new found friend, Karen, whose blog I happened upon about a week ago, has inspired me to begin this site.  So here is the first entry, and so much more to come.  Blessings.  W.