There is help. We were sent a comforter, the Holy Spirit, to guide and comfort the children of God after Jesus was crucified.
Of sin, because they believe not on me;
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
John 16:9-11
Christmas Bounty! (the quicker picker upper)
Most became familiar with this scripture read in the Charlie Brown Christmas special during the children’s play. Hopefully some of you know a little more about our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ than what is portrayed in a child’s cartoon.
Merry Christmas and God Bless us everyone!
My quest is to have the best blogs I can from this day forward. Now let’s see if I keep that promise. My goal had always been to provide needed information to others regarding many aspects of living in todays very confusing world, with a little entertainment and pretty pictures.
I want to give others ideas and shortcuts to living in a world that will rob you blind spiritually as well as financially. It was supposed to give definite tips to save money, offer suggestions to solve various lifestyle issues such as cooking, cleaning, decorating, gardening and crafting. I have really fallen short in this area because as my mother used to say “obviously, it’s too much like work” now.
Even though I have experienced the joys of motherhood myself, it was so many years ago this is definitely not a “mommy blog.”
I plan to have more recipes, gardening tips and photo enhancement tips from Photoshop, which I seldom use, Microsoft Photodraw the first photographic software I purchased and still us even though support stopped many years ago to Ulead PhotoImpact which has awsome particle effects like lighting and fog.
Thank you all for your patience and I hope you will enjoy the new, improved Po’ Girl Shines. I owe my faith and hope to Jesus. God bless you all. Peace to you all.
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Or does your faith allow you to do it anyway.
Is there such a thing as anyone being truly fearless or does love and passion find a way? Even Christ was fearful, but did it anyway because He was obedient to God until His own death.
This I post to celebrate the act of one man sacrificing His life so that over two thousand years later He can still keep saving souls which Christians call Good Friday. The love of my life, Jesus the Christ.
The love of my life and His message to the world is:
Treat others as you wish to be treated. A very simple concept.
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.
So is a little thing like your life considered an overwhelming situation?
Funny that I have felt for so long like I have been dog paddling trying to survive in my life. I never seem to get anywhere so it’s not like I am actually swimming. With God’s help I have not sunk yet, but the older I get the more tired I become.
Most people have some kind of family support in their lives, but this has never been my case and I don’t say this to feel sorry for myself. I come from a severely dysfunctional family of many secrets, but it helped me to become the strong woman I am. It is very had being related to a family of mentally ill substance abusers because you never hear from anyone unless they need something. None were ever in a position to help me and I dealt with that by shutting down emotionally and just kept swimming pretending that I was not dying inside. I lied, because I died.
Now at least I can forgive myself for not making it to my imagined finish line that I drew for myself in my life because of the lovely surprise of our mortgage meltdown just a few years after finally purchasing my own home. I think that was one of the finish anchors that finally told me to give up, I can’t win for losing.
Po Girl has to shine because she has no choice. Jesus said he would never leave or forsake those that follow Him and I believe Him. Good folk don’t usually cotton to those from the wrong side of the track as well as having to live in an all white neighborhood and our family is racially mixed though most of us look pretty white as far as that goes. I was not allowed to play with a lot of the little white kids, I would get chased home even though I played very nicely with the other children. It wasn’t until things were even pointed out to me about racial differences or skin colors that I even noticed I was a little darker than the other kids, especially in the summer when I was very dark, but that’s another blog post.
My outcome is that I will never give up because I don’t know how, thanks to God, and I still believe in miracles and following the Golden Rule.
Po' Girl Shines 
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