Ash Wednesday

Hello Friends! Today is ash Wednesday! What a lovely day too! Sun is bright and in the 30’s outside. Today the start of lent. I am giving up candy for 40 days. It will be hard but look at what Jesus did. No food or water for 40 days for us! Hopefully I remember this all correctly. It’s been a long time since I thought about the Catholic religion. I was baptized Catholic and made my communion. Went to catholic school the 1st 2 years before we moved upstate! I have been on this journey for years of learning about other religions and have been frequenting a christian church for over a  year or more, and we love that church and all the pastors and the people who congregate there! It just is like a breath of fresh air there! There is also a calmness and familiar feeling of serenity thinking about the catholic church. If I knew a local Catholic church that had mass today I would’ve loved to attend it and receive ashes! Maybe another day, another time! Who knows what next year brings. Maybe Covid will disappear and we can attend church again. I miss it dearly. I never thought in a million years I would ever say that! This injury has given me strength and courage to try new things that I was once despised! It’s funny how things made a full circle- with an old friend even! I am just so lucky and brave to open myself up this past year! As bad in one way so good in other ways. Crazy how life can take one a whole new meaning! I think I will go online today and look for a catholic mass and watch it as I know it will bring some much needed comfort!  I really haven’t been blogging in a while. On and off. I notice that when I am stressed, depressed etc. I do not blog much and that is okay. I go with the flow and how I feel and that’s all I can do. it’s healthy to do that I think then forcing yourself to go about as a chore has to be done. This isn’t a chore it is my life, me, raw and unfiltered! All I can be… is me! I have never really been a pretender! I am a Sagittarian- blunt to the point and open mouth insert foot kinda a gal, lol! I am taking a course with James Van Praagh called “Awaken the writer within”. It is great, and I am learning a lot. If I can retain it or not is another thing but I can go back and check it out because it is being recorded. A new class every couple of weeks. I have homework and we have to email it to James and man am I scared… lol he will have his 1st glimpse of my book. (((Big Sigh))) 🙂  Well I can be nothing but me! Wish me luck! One good thing that happened today? My honey noticed when something was bothering me and he reached out to give me extra love! <3 Stay safe out there and remember I love ya! XO