Scene from frozen this morning after an ice and snow storm. More due tomorrow.
The poor little birds were still eating the ice-covered berries in the trees.
There was virtually no one outside today and so the birds were very active and hungry after waiting out the storm.
Enjoy the diversity of my photo display!
Two birds!
Hoping to keep blogging in 2016. I have to renew next month and I’m not sure I am up to this anymore. I have really lost the enthusiasm I once had to do a good job. I have not been happy with the quality or consistency of my posts since I started. I don’t know if others have this problem. I have always struggled with many issues in my life and you would think by now I would be used to that and just make myself do it for the sake of others enjoyment.
I don’t have the same drive I did when I was younger. I had such high hopes for my life about ten years back but when life keeps punching you in the gut without much of a chance to breathe in between, sooner or later you’re going down whether you like it or not.
That being said. I am planning on stopping my other blog, musingsofamenopausalmaven.com. Maybe if I concentrate on just pogirlshines.me, I’ll do a better job. The other blog was meant to be a place that I was going to bitch about life and the state of our country and the world in general and the ideas I have to do something about it, of which I have many. They are doable, but since fixing things would mean our wealthy and the large corporations would have to start playing fair, probably not going to happen in my lifetime. Besides we all need to say something or do something. They tend not to take a handful of people’s opinion very seriously.
I’ll still get in a number of posts before I quit it and I will have to get serious about this blog or stop it as well. The fact that everyone and his brother and sister blog now, makes me very insignificant in the grand scheme of things, even though we’re all different and we all count. I don’t have a thriving social life at this time since I’m older and I don’t drink or do drugs and I still haven’t found a church that excites me to show up to every week let alone become involved in.
Back to the Photo Challenge at hand. Something vibrant and optimistic. There is something very vibrant about optimism to begin with. I guess it’s not super optimistic to be speaking about quitting something, but I think when you lose your passion for something or someone, it shows.
Spring is the perfect example of Vibrant optimism.
Changing seasons are one of the reasons I love Michigan. There is seldom a dull moment. I actually don’t have a favorite season anymore but I will say I hate oppressive heat and air conditioning which makes me stay north.
We do enjoy glorious seasons in Michigan.
I will also add that I am now in the season of what some call the “Sunset Years.” If this is true, I’m in for one looonnnggg and glorious of those too!
Peace and God bless!Most do not. Most don’t know how to believe. They believe in a cold one or a smoke at the end of their hard earned day. The knowledge that my days are numbered and every day is a gift is good enough for me.
You can’t be faithful to God and have an ungrateful heart. Most that don’t believe in God or do believe but choose to hate Him and try to defile Him in all that they do seem to have a childish mindset that God is like a genie that grants wishes. They don’t get what they want out of their life so blame God or think because they make bad choices and have poor impulse control that God does not exist.
The only people who can think this way are those that were not taught spiritual truth. The term is “walking in the dark.” They say ignorance is bliss but in the long run it really is death. Man will be held accountable for deliberate ignorance. God knows if you know something is wrong but choose to do it anyway or when you find something out that you know is true but try to pretend that it’s not and try to blame it on our current liberal propaganda that is obviously destroying His world. I think we were all born with certain inner knowledge, as most creatures, of what to do and what not to do. It is called instinct. Since man is very selfish by nature because of that survival instinct, it is important to temper this selfishness with civility or spiritual training or any kind of civilization would be quite impossible. Sometimes it truly looks like many are completely brainwashed by the low-grade movies churned out by the greedy and depraved. Just cause you watch it on a screen, does not make it real life or anything worth imitating. Man is very easily influenced by others, that’s how we learn. It’s shameful that most of any entertainment that exists in America has so much gratuitous sex and violence instead of instilling values and reinforcing the positive qualities of mankind.
People seem to forget, that much like our earth is being mindlessly trashed, if we are not mindful of how we are raising human beings and treating one another, there could come a point of no return for everything. We are not guaranteed tomorrow, we are not guaranteed the use of this earth, especially if we don’t take care of it. The same goes for others in our lives that are not treated with the love and kindness that Jesus spoke of. This is exactly why He is the truth, the life and the only way.
So yes, I consider myself faithful. How could I not be faithful to someone who loved me enough to die for me?
Wanted to post a few photographs of some decorations I threw up this year in the tiny apartment I just moved to. I still have some decorations packed away I only realized when I started unpacking what I thought was all of my Christmas stuff. The rest has to be in my storage unit shoved in the back, so not looking for it this year anyway. I have a cute little area with lights that I can enjoy and that’s all I need for now. Besides this is one of the first years I’m not hosting my family for Christmas Eve, which I never post publicly anyway for everyone’s privacy. I may post a few more Christmas stuff later. So glad I was not able to sell the tiny tree at the garage sale held right before I moved!
I come from a musical family. I think many of us do before the invention of TV and radio and it sapped most of us of any wish to try our hand at learning an instrument even if simply because it takes effort on our part. Passive listening is so much easier.
God’s Children know the victory is already theirs. Never give up, never surrender because we all know that the devil fights you the hardest when he feels you are a worthy adversary!
I always ask this when bad things happen to good or innocent people. People minding their own business, doing the right thing. All I ask is for you to question what is going on today in a real way. Don’t just listen to what I or others have to say about it. Get in a quiet place literally and within yourself and think about what the problem really seems to be and ask God what you can do to make a difference for the better.
Po' Girl Shines 
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