She Rocks Joy

Friday, January 23, 2015

Purple is the Challenge at Inspiration Avenue this week!

So here is my purple,

I was playing this morning and thought I would actually do a blog post as I have not done much lately.

I am teaching some art classes in 2015. Very excited about that.

Friday, December 5, 2014

From my heart and fav song by Hillsong United - "Oceans" (Live at RELEVANT)

Where have I been?
This year has led me down many paths.
I have not been blogging much and probably have lost most of my followers but I have still been doing art and Photography. That has not stopped.
The empty nest has been nice even though I miss my kids dearly.
Still a part of a women's ministry at our little church in Sumas where BIG things are happening.
Been doing some soul learning, yes I said Learning!
Had a bout of depression butt the Lord in his merciful love brought me out of it. Spoke loud and clear to me and Woke me up in one day.
I am now a Hospice volunteer and have loved that. I took the training back in May and have been working at the Hospice House and in the county
I did some one on one mentoring during the summer and that was awesome
I have 45 books on my Kindle that I read parts of 3 or 4 every day.
Have been working on a book that I started a few years ago.
Music is a HUGE part of my life even though I can not carry a tune in a bucket I live to Worship and as I write this this song is blasting all around me.
We all have a story to tell. more to come.....

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Joining Susannah Conway's December Reflections, 2014

find it here!!

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Chris Tomlin & Passion Band - All My Fountains

Thursday, October 2, 2014

"Words" IA Challenge I added words to one of my favorite fall pictures!

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Full story of the Egg, carrot and coffee bean

As I have been spending a lot of time sitting after what was supposed to be a simple toenail removal procedure.... NOT! I went back into some of my blogs. I shut a few down and updated some. This was part of a sermon at church one day and is on the sidebar of my Photography blog.

www.javabeanphotography.blogspot.com

Full story of the Egg, carrot and coffee bean

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as when one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does this mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity… boiling water. Each had reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting in the boiling water, its insides became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After being in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"
~author unknown

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10