I've added a new feature to my blog....

OK.....so maybe sometimes I am a little slow to catch on to things every now and then...LOL.

This morning I have spent some time adding a new (to me anyway) feature to my blog.

If you look on the left hand side of my blog, and go nearly half way down, you will now see a link list of the blogs that I read and follow regularly.

I plan to finish adding to the link list as time allows, and I will eventually add *ALL* of the blogs that I have listed on the right hand side that is listed as...
"Lovely Lady's to Visit With in Blog Land".

I do so love this feature. It gives updates, and a little snippet of what that wonderful lady has recently written about and posted to her blog.

So go and give it a look, and see if there are any other wonderful blogs that you might like to go and visit with. I just know that you will not doubt find many wonderful blogs to visit regularly, just as I have.

I hope your day is a blessed and wonderful one.

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day!

I will.

Normalcy and Fulfillment....What a Blessing...

Well, it's time for things to start getting back into a normal swing around here.

Gee, I'm going to miss the CHRISTmas season. But normalcy is also just as beloved for me. I do like a normal routine, I find the normalcy of a routine is a bit comforting to me in many way's.

My new job is going just wonderfully. I am just **beyond blessed** and amazed at what my sweet Lord has done for me. This job is just perfect for me. What a happy and blessed woman I am. God is good, yes! Yet, I think He is far better than just....good. My precious Lord and Heavenly Father is AMAZING, and I am most grateful for all He does for me.

I am working longer hours everyday, than has been worked in probably 4 years, yet I do so love it. Now I just need to continue to work on finding that perfect balance in home and work. Keeping my home, in all areas as I like for it to be, and keeping my job duties completely fulfilled. Home, loving and taking care of my darling hubby in every way, cooking, cleaning, laundry, balancing the budget, grocery shopping, and even having fun when every possible, now combining all that with working a full time, 40 hour a week job, an all of my duties there at the radio station. Yet, I am fully confident that my sweet Lord is beside me all the while, loving me, strengthening me, encouraging me, and helping me in all area's. I am a most blessed woman.

My sweet hubby has been a wonderful blessing as well. He has always jumped right in and helped with the running of our home & daily chores, in many ways, all while still wonderfully holding his rightful position as "HEAD OF THE HOUSE", when I worked in the past. He is the kind of loving man who has never hesitated to cook, or help with laundry, or...whatever was needing to be done, yet, I always tried to NOT have anything or much, for him to help with seeing as how he worked full time and usually in time past I was only working 35 hours a week or even less. Yet this time he has decided that since we are empty nesters, and we are both working 40 hours a week, he wants us to for the most part take on all the household chores and such pretty evenly. I find this a wonderful blessing. He is such a loving and giving man. How blessed I am.

Well, my time in here to "think out loud, and write" has ended for now. I must go and get ready for work.

What a wonderful feeling it is to know that I do not have a feeling of dread, or a lack of enthusiasm, in regards to "getting ready for work"! Having a job doing something that you have always known would be perfect for you, is a wondrous feeling, and a great sense of comfort. There have been many jobs I have done over the years, that I liked, or that payed better than others, yet this time, I am finally blessed to be working a job which is EXACTLY what I have been wanting to do for many years. Oh how my precious Lord Jesus Christ has blessed!

Have a fab day, and I hope your daily doings are equally as blessed, rewarding, and fulfilling as mine shall be!

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day!

I will!

Pic's from our snow laden weekend.....

This past weekend we were at the mercy of the cold, the snow, and the loss of power. Yet even in such harsh conditions beauty was all around. This was the view that was just outside of my bedroom window. White, fresh, clean, pure, and just gloriously beautiful.

I am aware that I have a strange way of looking at things most often. Yet when we step outside of the "normal" way others view things, we can most often find such loveliness. That is what I found when I stepped "UNDER" the branches of a heavily snow laden pine tree in my front yard. The view from underneath was breath taking ( to me anyway). Usually we only see the top side of the branches, where the snow lays ever so gently on top of those delicate little pine needles. But it was equally full of splendor and beauty to see it from underneath.


This is our sweet, yet oh so plump, four legged family member....King George. He has never seemed fond of our CHRISTmas trees ever before, yet, this year being the only cat left in our family, he has taken the previously held spot of our beloved Flossy. She was always the one who would sit and our sleep just under the front of our tree. Know, King George has assumed his rightful place. He now sits, or rather lays, in front and under the tree. He never touches the decorations, yet he loves the lights. He is our most regal, and beloved great big, squishy, fluffy, four legged family member....KING GEORGE. Oh how we love our little baby.



And here is a final picture of our CHRISTmas tree. This is an unusual one for us this year. We have always had a tree that was covered with all of our children's childhood ornaments. So being as how they have now both been gone from our home for a year now, I thought it was time for Bob and I to have a grown-up, color co-ordinated, adult CHRISTmas tree. Our sweet Possum complained and teased us the first day she saw it. She teased us by saying.....I feel the love mom.....we move out and you throw away all our childhood ornaments, Thanks mom.....I really feel the love here...! Then she began to laugh. We knew she was only teasing us.

Well I must go and make myself ready for work....YAY ME!!!!! Seriously, I am excited!!!!1

I Pray your day, as we get ever closer to CHRISTmas Eve and CHRISTmas Day, is blessed, wondrous, glorious, and touched by Our Precious Lord.

Hope you didn't mind me just indulging myself and posting pic's from this past weekend's snow storm. Later I'll post pics of some of the odd things we did to keep things going, seeing as how we had no power.

See ya' soon!

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day

&

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

CHRISTmas and what's really important....

As the next few days become ever increasingly busy and possibly even a bit frantic, while we prepare for CHRISTmas, family, food, fellowship and fun, I hope and pray that we are all remembering that the entire reason we celebrate CHRISTmas is because we wish to honor, and celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


I know things here in my small corner of our the world, are snow covered and exciting. Preperations are being put together for the Holiday. Family and friends are going to be coming by and we shall go to see them as well. Wonderous and joyful church services we will attend. I most likely shall not have a great deal of time to come by and "think out loud" here in my blog (as has been a problem of late, meaning...I've not had enough time to come in here and write and think....insert sad face :( HERE.!!!), Yet, I cannot let this time pass with out taking a few moments to say.....

What is really important to you this CHRISTmas?

At this time of year, we all hear the same question. Which is...
"What do you want for CHRISTmas"????

I know for me, I have almost always had a hard time answering this one. Mostly because I just don't sit around year after year, and making mental notes of...I want this, or that, or those, or......whatever.

Yet, I truly can say, especially this year, after having faced some of the most difficult things and situations ever in my life, that all I truly want is family and friends close, and to enjoy one another.

So, this has had me thinking about just asking you this question....

"WHAT do YOU really want for CHRISTmas?"

What is most important at this Blessed time of year?

Is it...



Or is it...



Is it...


Or is it...








I hope and pray that all of you and your family's have a most wonderous and blessed CHRISTmas Holiday.

May you remember that CHRISTmas really is all about CHRIST.

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day

&

A Blessed Christmas !

What a great week this has been....

I am just beyond blessed this week.

I love my new job. Yes I know it is just the first week, and I have much to learn, Yet I am just beyond excited about my new job.

The environment at WKJV is......well......
Peaceful, calm, friendly, helpful, and full of Christians.

It is also kind of a new thing for me, in regards to how I am being treated.
I am a woman...a lady, and I am being completely treated as such. Not that I haven't been treated as a lady in times past at other jobs, yet I have never been treated this well, and this completely & mindfully as a lady/woman.

To be working with "Gentlemen", who remember there are women present, open doors, and are even verbally gentlemenly is a wondrous thing to be around. To be working with Christian men, and women....all Saved...all in church....all working in one way or another for the Glory and Uplifting of Christ, well it is just....wonderful!!!!

God has already done some working inside of my head and heart already, and in many ways. I have already begun to see and feel things in a different and better way, than ever before, from any other job I have ever done. Blessed....that is all I can say. I am beyond blessed...beyond happy....and beyond willing to do what ever is asked or required of me in this job....(with in reason or what is good and right of course).

God has been dealing with my heart, head, spirit about many things of which I have needed to repent of, work on and change. Things I needed to change, release, and allow God to do a work with in me. I know my sweet Lord has brought me to this place...this job...this point in time where He can do all that is best and necessary for my life, my heart, my soul, my personality, my home, my marriage, and most of all my relationship with Him.

You can't tell me that God hasn't brought me to this job and this particular time in my life for a reason. Especially when I sit back and think about all of the things that I have been going through during this past year. Things of which I have not told anyone but God. Things that I can't tell anyone about. Things that have been more painful to deal with and live through than anyone knows. Yet, I just know that my precious Lord is going to use even my new job to help me in every way possible. Even the places where we work can and will either help or hinder us in many ways.


Well it's now snowing here this morning, and I need to get ready for work....YAY ME!!!

I hope your day is as blessed as I know mine will be.

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day

So Blessed So Thankful So Amazed At God's Gift's.....

I start this morning with a renewed sense of excitement, hope and joy.

I was the blessed recipient of a phone call last night at 5:07 pm. I was getting ready for our Georgetown Baptist Church Ladies Christmas dinner, when heard my phone ring. I had been anxiously, yet prayerfully awaiting someones decision, and a phone call since Monday.

I had turned in my resume, Monday a week ago, and had since then had my first interview, and then went back in three days later to observe and experience personally, some the things that this particular job would require me to do. I was there for 3 hours, then had another interview that day before I left. I was then asked to return this past Monday afternoon, so that Dr. Runion's wife and I could meet, and a final interview could be done. All of this, was in hope and in prayer of my being blessed to be chosen for a job at a local Christian Radio Station.

Go here... WKJV Pure Gospel Radio

I have tried so terribly hard not to "over think...or become overly anxious" (as is part of my normal O.C.D. way of doing things...LOL), yet I wanted this job so very much. I have just been leaving this entire situation at my precious Lords feet, in His hands and His will.

I have wanted and longed for a job in which I could work in an office setting, and I have always wanted to be able to work in a Christian setting of some sort. To me this would be the best of both worlds.

OK...so I do have a part time job working in our local Boy Scout Retail Shop. It is a good job, and God has used this job to teach me many, many things, personally and professionally. Yet, it is only part time, with NO chance of that to ever change. So I turned in my resume', and I figured "well maybe I could even get a part time job there, if not a full time one". Well, as of last night.......I have been officially offered another job. A job that is just beyond all I could have ever imagined or dreamed of.

I will be making more money per hour, the work hours for this job...are perfect for me, it's in a Christian Radio Ministry setting, and it is an office job, like I have always dreamed of and wanted. I have been asked to start working part time, right away, and then I will be going full time, just after the start of the new year.

I truly adore my manager now at the scout shop, and I do not wish to hurt her, disappoint her, nor leave her short handed. Becky has been most patient with me, and she has taught me much. For this I shall always be grateful. I have come to greatly adore the stronger friendship between Becky and I (as we have actually know each other since all of our children were young, yet I must move on. God has opened a door that I shall gladly and gratefully walk through.

This new job offers many wonderful things, and my pay is one of them. It is beyond a blessing, and I shall truly be able to be more help to my husband.

I am most blessed.
I am beyond grateful.
I am extremely amazed at how God has blessed.
I am so very happy.

Today shall be a bit difficult tho. For today I must now tell Becky my news. I know she has been stressed with certain things at work, and the day after Christmas is the beginning of Inventory at the shop. I do not want to stress her even more, yet the time line is now set, and should I try to change it in any way.....I would most assuredly loose this other wonderful opportunity.

I shall need my Lords strength and guidance to take care of things in the right way today.

Yet, in total truth, I am just BEYOND......GRATEFUL at GOD's ABUNDANT BLESSINGS UPON MY LIFE!!!!!!!

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day!

I will!!!!

Have You Ever......

Have You Ever.....

Just stopped to catch a rain drop or two, in the palm of your hand?

As you try to catch rain drops, can you see the tiny ripples that flow outwards from the center, as each drop of water falls into your hand, and creates an even larger puddle in your palm ?

Just how many rain drops can you hold in the palm of your hand?

Have you ever tried to count them?

How large, does each following rain drops, make that puddle, that sits in the palm of your hand?

Does the falling rain, and the gathering of those tiny rain drops, seem impossible to you?

How does it feel on your skin, as each rain drop falls gently into your palm, and just sits there adding it's self to the rest of the puddle?

Does it remind you of your childhood, playing in the rain, with an upturned face, trying to catch the rain drops on your tongue?

Do you feel like a kid again when it rains?

Does the rain ever make you feel, quiet, peaceful, and content?

Have you ever just sat quietly and listened to each tiny rain drop and the sound it makes?

Have you ever tried to catch a rain drop in the palm of your hand?

Have You Ever.....



It's raining here again today.

I guess everyone who reads this, by now must think.....Ronda's lost her ever loving mind?

Yet, alas, it is still fully intact. I just decided to write down these questions, that I used to ask my children, once upon a time.

This is all part of the randomness of thought that oft' times fills my head and heart. Yes, I do enjoy thinking of things in the form of a question, and even in a childlike manner from time to time.

So, what would be your answer to...

Have You Ever.....
Just stopped to catch a rain drop or two, in the palm of your hand?

Love & Prayers,

Ronda

Have A Peachy Keen Day.