Royal Scrapbooking Club©: Speaking to YOUR Mountain : 2/10/12 JOURNEY TO 50: PART 1 Peace and Blessings everyone. I'm on my road to 50. So, I've decided to scrapbook and journal the journey. I...

2/10/12 JOURNEY TO 50: PART 1 Peace and Blessings everyone. I'm on my road to 50. So, I've decided to scrapbook and journal the journey. I've gathered all of what I think have been my mountain moving experiences up to this day.  I am a writer by nature; which means that I journal every day. My journaling is one of the ways I pray to God. Yep I pray through writing to the Lord. He does not count spelling and I can vent through words on to the paper. I recently went through my journals between 1996-2000, just to see where I was back then. (*pause for a moment of silence) My mountains were multiplying. Faced with mounting financial problems, health issues, 2 small children, broken down car, and the threat of eviction. You get my drift? I had the right to give up and turn away from God because from the outside, it looked like he had forgotten about me and my children. However, during that time, you can count on 1 hand the people who knew about what I was going through. As a

2/6/2012 I made a 3 scrappy resolutions in January; have all of my 35mm roles of film developed,  to use up some of the paper and embellishments in my stash, and to complete 1 project by the end of January. Here we are...in the 2 week of February...How much have I accomplished... Let's see...NUTHIN. Nuthin at all. Not one role of film has been developed, I purchased more paper and stuff, and I'm still on the same project.  Why is it so had to follow through on a fiery decision. You get pumped up, give yourself a pep talk and get your family and best friends to agree with you. Ready, set, go! Then what happens? I wonder how God feels when we make promises to him and are on fire to live for him and THEN we fizzle out and give up. Give up before we ever get started.  We churchy  folks know all the right scriptures:Philippians 4:13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me...Romans 8:37 in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. W