These are a couple of pictures from this winter 2011 that I took in NYC and some other pictures in my own area on my way through the city. I like lots of pretty trees and snow they are the best!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Time passes us by...
Hello again!!! It has been a while. I haven't been able to show any new Winter pic's unfortunately. But I promise to give something soon. If not snow then maybe flowers. (smile.) I hope to share my photos with you. Because time is passing by quickly. It is already March and February just flew by.
Grateful List:
I am grateful for this year because a lot has happened. Well actually not much "event wise" but other wise it's been a calm so far. God is good! (All the time)
I have great news. I just saw my great grandmother in NC who turned 92 years old on Monday. God bless her. She drives and is still fairly autonomous. If only we all could be that old and stay so young! She is 90 years young! She's a wonderful women. I am so proud of her. I know that only comes from keeping God first, eating right, staying busy, exercise and healthy living.
Short Book Review:
I have also been reading. I've finished recently Have a little a Faith by Mitch Albom. I had seen the name of the book in a couple of places and I wanted to read it. It is by a best selling author so that explains why it was every where.
And the last book, I read, by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) was really good too.
"Have a little faith." The name alone is what interested me. As usual I received a lot of thoughtful insights from it. I really enjoyed how he created such a tangible image of faith through a dying man and an living man. The frame of a dying man was similar to his other book about Morrie but the subject of the book was entirely different.
It is very reflective book on my favorite topic- faith. Through out the book the author is on a discovery of faith from a perspective of observer that leads to participant and believer. In short the book is about the authors encounters during his interviews and the stories he shared. Mitch is asked to do the eulogy of his childhood family's Rabbi. (He is Jewish.) Over a eight year span he forms a new found friendship. One he never expected to have and he learns a lot of new stuff about faith along the way.
Intertwined in the story is another mans story which is equally amazing and so rich. The other man is of another faith (Christian) and race (black) and yet the way Albom juxtaposed the two brought out a deep point. In the process of interviewing this leads to Albom finding a new way to believe in faith.
In this book it shows people putting faith into action for us to see in tangable ways. It inspires me, to continue to put my faith into what I do. There was a part where Mitch the author is asking the rabbi a question about faith and it's impact on life at the very end. He asks the Rabbi this question.
Here is an excerpt from page 44:
I wondered, now that his days were dwindling how important ritual still was.
"vital," he said.
But why? deep inside, you know your convictions.
"Mitch he said, faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how your believe."
That explains everything. I believe that it is of a motto for life .
Updates:
Also in other news: I am working on a book. I don't have a title yet but it is a poetry book. Hopefully you will read it. One I am publishing, which I hope will be an entertaining read and an encouragement to go after your dreams. I have been writing and writing now it's time to compile it and seal it.
Till next time... have a Great Day!!
Grateful List:
I am grateful for this year because a lot has happened. Well actually not much "event wise" but other wise it's been a calm so far. God is good! (All the time)
I have great news. I just saw my great grandmother in NC who turned 92 years old on Monday. God bless her. She drives and is still fairly autonomous. If only we all could be that old and stay so young! She is 90 years young! She's a wonderful women. I am so proud of her. I know that only comes from keeping God first, eating right, staying busy, exercise and healthy living.
Short Book Review:
I have also been reading. I've finished recently Have a little a Faith by Mitch Albom. I had seen the name of the book in a couple of places and I wanted to read it. It is by a best selling author so that explains why it was every where.
And the last book, I read, by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) was really good too.
"Have a little faith." The name alone is what interested me. As usual I received a lot of thoughtful insights from it. I really enjoyed how he created such a tangible image of faith through a dying man and an living man. The frame of a dying man was similar to his other book about Morrie but the subject of the book was entirely different.
It is very reflective book on my favorite topic- faith. Through out the book the author is on a discovery of faith from a perspective of observer that leads to participant and believer. In short the book is about the authors encounters during his interviews and the stories he shared. Mitch is asked to do the eulogy of his childhood family's Rabbi. (He is Jewish.) Over a eight year span he forms a new found friendship. One he never expected to have and he learns a lot of new stuff about faith along the way.
Intertwined in the story is another mans story which is equally amazing and so rich. The other man is of another faith (Christian) and race (black) and yet the way Albom juxtaposed the two brought out a deep point. In the process of interviewing this leads to Albom finding a new way to believe in faith.
In this book it shows people putting faith into action for us to see in tangable ways. It inspires me, to continue to put my faith into what I do. There was a part where Mitch the author is asking the rabbi a question about faith and it's impact on life at the very end. He asks the Rabbi this question.
Here is an excerpt from page 44:
I wondered, now that his days were dwindling how important ritual still was.
"vital," he said.
But why? deep inside, you know your convictions.
"Mitch he said, faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how your believe."
That explains everything. I believe that it is of a motto for life .
Updates:
Also in other news: I am working on a book. I don't have a title yet but it is a poetry book. Hopefully you will read it. One I am publishing, which I hope will be an entertaining read and an encouragement to go after your dreams. I have been writing and writing now it's time to compile it and seal it.
Till next time... have a Great Day!!
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