TRUE CONFESSIONS!

Once upon a time, there was a magazine on the market called "True Confessions. Perhaps, it is still out there somewhere, but, it has been many years since I have seen one, much less read one. At that time I was a
very young girl and I thought it to be "Quite Shocking!" Of course, at this time in history it would probably be a little like "Bubble Gum Music" and would not even shock a 10 year old, but, that was a long time ago. Unfortunately things have changed rather drastically.
Actually, what I have in mind today has nothing at all to do with magazines, "Shocking or not", but, I remembered the name and thought it would be an appropiate title for what I do have to say.
Last night I sat at this computer and wrote a "tongue in cheek" list of my complsints about the weather we have been having to deal with this spring. Asmittedly, I was not totally serious, I was just a little out of sorts and felt like complaining.
As I said at the time "I was even getting on my own nerves!"
Well this morning, as I got up and prepared to leave the house for a full day, I decided I would turn on the TV and check out the news to see if there was anything interesting happening in our world.
The minute a picture came onto the screen, I realized there had been a terrible tragedy. On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, as I am sure everyone already knows, a huge storm system had barreled across the southern part of our country and devastated everything for many miles around! Sadly and tragically, taken by the storms, were also more than 200(and still counting)lives! This was SHOCKING and HEARTRENDING.
It has caused me to rethink what I said last night, it dosn't matter if I thought, at the time, that I was being funny.
I am now so ASHAMED of myself. For I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!
EACH and EVERYDAY, I look around me and see people that are truly HURTING! EVERYDAY, I talk to someone who is sick, or without a job, or without a home, or a wonderful husband, or a loving child, or a friend, maybe they can't walk, or havn't got a leg, or are paralyzed, or cannot see, or hear or speak! OR DYING! The list goes on and on!
EVERYDAY! Not once in awhile, but EVERYDAY!!!
So my friends, I want to apologize to each and every one of you that read last nights article.
I AM and HAVE BEEN BLESSED in so many ways I could never begin to count them all.
And I AM SO THANKFUL FOR WHAT GOD HAS PROVIDED! Sometimes I just need to be reminded of how much I really have!
What a sad wake up call!
I have decided that I must stop complaining and whining when things don't go exactly the way I think they should!!
My heart goes out to all who are hurting!
I pray that the storm clouds will soon pass and the healing will begin.
"MAY GOD WATCH OVER YOU AND BLESS YOU"

"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"

Haven't written for awhile. Thought it about time.
I've been in a bit of a funk recently and while I sit around feeling sorry for myself I have been accomplishing very very little of any importance. Worst of all I am getting on my own nerves!
The weather here in Northwest Ohio this season is certainly not helping my mood one bit! I know we are not the only ones experiencing a late spring, and that complaining about chilly temps and rain, rain and more rain isn't going to make it come faster (believe me, I have been doing that for many weeks and it hasn't worked!!
Well anyway, FINALLY, we did have a couple days last weekend with SUNSHINE! And warm temps, taboot! SPRING!!! FINALLY!
The tulip magnolias and flowering pears began to bloom, daffodil's and tulips in every color, purple and pink hyacinths and little violets (Originally, we brought them from my parents house in Missouri, probably by now, over 30 years ago. These tough little flowers are no longer in my flower beds, where I planted them so long ago, but have seeded themselves all over our back yard.) I have to admit (even with all the doom and gloom) that I smile when I see them because they are a sweet reminder of my special family.
EVERTHING WAS BECOMING BEAUTIFUL! That is, for about 24 hours there, I actually believed we were going to make it. Did I dare sat the word -- SPRING?
I should have known that IT WAS A MISTAKE to voice it because, YESTERDAY, we were RIGHT BACK to 50 degree's and MORE RAIN and MORE FLOODING!
I tried to turn on the weather this afternoon and the SATALLITE would not even work!
I guess, it just didn't think "I COULD HANDLE MORE BAD NEWS!"
BUT, I still have my FAITH and I am STILL hoping that there WILL COME A DAY when I can bask in the sunshine and breath in the warm gentle air of a "PERFECT SPRING DAY".