My little family and I took a much needed vacation last week and our travels took us to Orange City, San Clemente, Monterey Bay/Aquarium, and Redding, California!  What a great trip!  Our kids did a great job handling the long drives, the hotels, and they handled staying with relatives and friends with a positive attitude-maybe I am rubbing off on them! (smile)  They rarely complained and when they did it was about "her feet are touching me," or "he started it," or "I don't feel very good," or "I have to pee..."!  They were great travel companions.  Mike and I felt relaxed, we smiled a lot, we held hands, we ate some great food, ate a couple meals that really were awful- and yet we kept on smiling.  WHAT A GIFT!

Now we are back to reality- :+{

I took some notes during our vacation and maybe over the next week I will share some of the stories.  What I learned during this time off is that, TRULY, there is never enough time to do all that we want, but making the best of the time we do have is crucial to our well-being.  I thought alot about FANCY BETTY and I am hoping to get to the point where I just take the step- the last step, and rather than step- JUMP----FLY----MOVE MOUNTAINS----and find my groove.  I feel it bubbling inside.....

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When I was growing up and even now, the saying- Pansy Ass, meant that someone was wimpy, not strong, kind of soft in spirit.  As I was driving yesterday I had this "vision"  and I thought I would share it. 
I am not a horticulturalist, I don't grow fabulous gardens of flowers or veggies but I do give it a try every year.  Two summers ago I planted some Pansies in the back yard in an area that is overrun by the some plant called Snow on the Mountain...it is green and kind of silver and it takes over- it spreads and continues to grow, year after year after year.... Anyway, over the course of the past couple years I have continued to see this one Pansy continue to push through the "snow on the mountain" and bloom all summer long.  I haven't replanted that Pansy- it just keeps growing there!  And the thought of that yesterday made me stop and think about being a "Pansy Ass"!  

Pansy's can be tougher than we think.  They are vibrant, they give off the aura of Happiness and some Pansy's have the ability to hang on, fight, overcome and bloom every spring and sometimes they do this with very little water, which of course is the a source of life!    So driving down the street, telling myself that I am indeed a Pansy Ass- it hit me!  I am a Pansy Ass- and I am a tough Pansy Ass!  I continue to grow, even through the winter, into spring and I keep poking my head through the "snow on the mountain", and I thrive in the heat.  Sometimes because of lack of water- the source of life-aka- God and communion, I seem to look and feel faint and droopy, but even the smallest drop of water/life/God/Communion, I perk up!  

I think I my Pansy Ass needed some of the drought time that I have been feeling- I needed to feel droopy so that even in tough times, a simple drop of life water can refresh me.  

I am a Pansy Ass- but I am one tough Pansy Ass and I am joyfully perked up today.  

Feeling Perky, Fresh and Being Well-
Kay 

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Instead of WWJD, I found an article in a Newsweek Magazine dated April 12, 2010, it is titled, What Would Mary Do?  I like that, it is refreshing for me.  I understand the WWJD- Jesus did die on a cross for me- died a horrible death- I hope I never comprehend that pain and torture.  However- at this point in my life, as I continue to look for Grace, I feel like Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene are really two of the most critical women in the bible and I have started praying to them.  I am asking them to intervene for me, to help me find Grace.  Sometimes, Women do know it all, and at this point of my searching, I am turning to Mary.

Still searching for Grace and asking, What Would Mary Do?

Kay

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