A Blessed Mess Blog

It is with a heavy heart that I even begin to write this blog.  For the most part I am usually able to just let things slide and keep on going, but I guess I'm finally at the point in my life, my Christian life, that things are weighing on me like they should have all along.  I don't claim to be all-knowing and I sure don't claim to be better than anyone else, but praise the Lord my faith and relationship with my Heavenly Father is growing and deepening to the point where I can no longer just side idly by and not speak my mind.  To have a heart like Jesus is the desire of a Christian, and to love our fellow man like Jesus did is something I always wanted to feel, but perhaps due to my own self blocking or now allowing that to happen, I honestly never really felt a deep pain for the lost or the misinformed.  Of course, I was sad and mostly angry when I heard someone speak against Christians or Jesus, and I always pray for the lost, but in the recent days something has...

I can't even begin to catch up from where I left off!  It was over a year ago that I last blogged and so much has happened.  In December I took on another job as an MT after one year of being off.  I must say, though, that I am really enjoying my work.  All my jobs are behavioral health related so I learn something new every single day.  And, hearing the issues and situations these people find themselves in, I can honestly say that thankfully, I'm not the only one out there struggling, and more importantly, when I think I have it bad, someone else out there has it way worse than I do, so it helps me put things into perspective sometimes.  This past year has been a wonderful one for us for the most part.  We did, however, suffer a terrible loss last November when Travis' younger middle brother was unexpectedly killed in a car accident near Washington, D.C., where he lived.  I lost my mother to cancer back in 2007, but at least I had time to plan...