Love Letters To Yourself

I've never tried this, have you?  It sounds like a great idea!

Love Letters To Myself

Post 101

Sometimes, on very long days, what you need is a little spiritual reassurance.

The Definition of Shame

So what does shame have to do with being widowed?

Isaiah 54:4

4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

I had always wondered why someone would reproach a widowed person, then I became widowed and understood.


Defining Shame from Brené Brown on Vimeo.

The Power of Vulnerability

This evening we had a Relief Society meeting with the speaker being Sister Carol Ramsay-Scott, LCSW, of Chandler Gilbert Counseling.

Among the many insights she gave were a list of books, one of them being The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown.

She mentioned Brene's Ted Talk, so I looked it up.  I love it.  So many things I need to work on, having listened to this talk.  There is some mild language in it.

A time To Prepare

I need to work on my time management skills.  Along with having a cluttered, disorganized home I also feel like I have a cluttered, disorganized life.

Congratulations, Jenny!

Congratulations to Jenny Oaks Baker on her Grammy nomination!  That's a huge achievement!

I love to listen to Jenny perform music, but I've enjoyed watching this video of her testimony even more.

The Latest

I'm sorry I've missed the last few days of posting.

A lot of things have developed just over the last week, namely an accidental water leak from my dishwasher to the condo below mine.  My week has been stressful and required a visit to an urgent care for repeated anxiety attacks.  I've been put on medication for that.  Because I'm the Worst Case Scenario Girl like Laurel Christensen.

So, between work and dealing with issues with my home, dealing with issues with my financial situation, it's been pretty much crazy.

A few good things about this past week:

- I'm understanding Job a lot more.
- I was still able to find, each day this past week, at least one way to give a random act of kindness to someone, whether it was a teacher, a student, my Mother and yesterday it was even for myself.
- People (including the neighbors downstairs) were a lot nicer about this than I was expecting.
- I still have a long way to go before the Lord is finished refining me into what he wants me to be.

Hopefully people will continue to be patient with me while I get things worked out.