Almost Country Music

November 30th, 2008 by JudyLynn

It may be over but I am still thankful. I had a great time with my family. My sister had the entire clan at her home. We ate !!! She fixed (and I kid you not) a 40# home-grown turkey. There were  plenty of left overs. There were nine of us there and we ate as much as we wanted but the turkey was hardly touched. So it appeared. It was very good, Melted in our mouths.  I think it was their first time raising turkeys. It was a very nice time we spent together.

Yesterday my oldest son and I went and got my youngest son and brought him home for a few days. He lives and works  about 1 1/2 hours from me. We went and saw Transporter 3. It is an excellant movie.  I did good staying in my seat in an up-right position. It had it’s moments. Very much a nail biter I think. If you go see it I would like your  opinion of it.

I am very thankful for my family and friends.  Now we have Christmas to look forward to. My greatest gift given me ,outside of my salvation, is my family.

JudyLynn

November 23rd, 2008 by JudyLynn

Well, I am at a  loss today on thougths of a song. I still have much to be thankful for tho. I am thankful for faithful friends. I have one such friend that is going to introduce me to a banjo player that lives not far away. He is willing to teach me a bit on the banjo. I have had my banjo for a few months now and never pick it up for I do not know anything about it. I only know I like it.

I have other friends I am thankful for.  I have much to be thankful for in my life. We should always count our blessings …big or small. We all have many when we tally them all. Just a thought…

JudyLynn

November 21st, 2008 by JudyLynn

In my previous post I wrote about being thankful for my children and my health and things like that. Today I will add more thoughts on the subject.

My Mother for one. I am so blessed  with the Mom I have. She is a soft spoken gentle woman who at times can and will speak her mind. She is a bouquet of love.  She is eighty years old and she is beautiful! She has a heart of gold and a very generous spirit. With me she shares her thoughts of God, life, love and days of her youth long past. We were not always this close. Altho we got along. we had a riff between us.  Now we have gotten to the point in our lives where we have had wizdom poured upon us and we can communicate our most inner thoughts one to another. I love my mother and I am thankful for her.

Now another thought from last night. I should always have a pen and paper by my bed at night. Last night I had the most awesome words for a song run thru my mind. I do not recall it now but it was good. Here are some of the ideas that I recall……

“He comes in the door with dirt on his boots. I had just waxed the floors. He had finished his chores. I said Hey…watch the dirt! He said I mean no harm. Well take off your boots and I will run the shower water warm.”

So anyway…I should have had a pen and paper by my bed. I can not keep notes in my head. Now understand that there is a lot more to the song but I can not recall it all today. Have you ever lost a good song this way? Another song gone.

JudyLynn

November 20th, 2008 by JudyLynn

Thanksgiving is soon coming . I am thinking of what I am thankful for. Sometimes it is hard to think of such things. Then I think of what my life could be like and I am ever-so-thankful. When I look around and I see people in wheel chairs, on crutches for life, or blind or handicapped in other ways I think to myself…”my life is not so bad. ” As a matter of fact my life is good. I am poor and yet I am so very rich. Compared to the world as a whole I am very wealthy. I eat good food and not termits….I am warm enough so not to get frostbite or death. I am healthy enough to take care of my daily needs such as dressing, bathing, preparing food, driving a car, things like that. So many people can not do so much. It is sad. I have survived much emotional pain in my life as well as physical illness and I am much stronger because of it all. Yesterdays trials are todays memories.

I have two children whom I adore even in trying times. I would not trade either of them for the world. Altho we may not always agree on things and they like to give me a hard time in life, I am proud of them both.

Share with me what you are most thankful for. I would love to hear about it . Songs came also from conversations, you know.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!

JudyLynn

November 16th, 2008 by JudyLynn

I am sitting here at my computer with my window opened listening to the swishhhh of the cars as they go by.  In the middle of November! This is the time of the year when windows most deffinantly are closed and heat is cranked.  Hmmmmm…..

It must be about 60 degrees today. I am thankful for that. See, there are many people that have no heating fuel at this point. Here….in America ! Altho it is a sad and grave situation, it is the truth. As I sit here I wonder what I can do to make a differance, I come to the conclusion that  being on a very low ended budget myself, I can do nothing to bring relief…even for myself. 

I get phone calls, several a week, people wanting money for this charity and that function…..from Fireman to Veitnam Vets and the needs there. I simply tell them that there is nothing I can do to help them but to pray. They ALL accept that. 

See, The Lord, my God, in His Word, tells us that If  His people would humble themselves and pray, He would heal their land. This is not a Bible Thumping site, I assure you, but I am a believer and a follower of Jesus Christ my Lord. Therefore you (the reader ) do not need to worry that I am going to try to convert you, for that is not what I am called to do. I am a singer and song writer….not a teacher or a preacher. Besides it is the Holy Spirit who does the conversion. Not a man or a woman.   I do however tend to share my Love, Peace and Hope. I can not help it. He lives in me and He is my voice sometimes. Again, His Word says if we be silent, even the stones would sing their praises to Him. I am NOT going to argue with the All Mighty Powerful One…so I speak. If you are to be His, you will be. He calls His own unto Himself.

Anyway, today I am lifted up out of the sea of depression that some song writers find themselves in. That is where songs  sometimes come from. While in that sea, might as well go fishing! I do have a song in my heart this day and I will be watching for moments when i can sit and work on it today. If it is to be….it will be.

I pray that all who read this post is warm, content, at peace in this crazy world and seeking. May you be blessed by God beyond measure.

JudyLynn