Momma Bean in the Mountains

Saturday was a busy day. Saturday was a long day. Saturday was divided into two major parts:            Celebration #1 - Party for PJB's sixth bday            Celebration #2 - Partying for Isaiah's fourteenth bday The former consisted of a conventional birthday party at our church -  complete with lots of food, lots of friends both school aged and adult, and cleanup/setup/and a full week's worth of six year old anticipation~! The latter was a slightly impromptu time of driving through the boondocks looking for Wharton Furnace to find Shephard Rd to take Isaiah and three friends to pick up two young ladies to bring along for a time of mall fun and dinner followed up by a movie. Well - said trip to the boondocks cut into my free time plan for when I initially dropped them off at the mall, so pulling out of the parking lot and feeling tired and unsure as to what...

God grant me the serenity  to accept the things I cannot change;  courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time;  Enjoying one moment at a time;  Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;  Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;  Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life  and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. --Reinhold Niebuhr Since starting Celebrate Recovery, several months ago, this prayer has been read aloud and prayed many times. The first time I read it, it was like a snag on an old vinyl album ....scritchhhhhhhhhhhhhh accepting hardship as a pathway to peace? reasonably happy in this life? supremely happy in the next one? I didn't want to accept these things as true, I didn't want to even read them aloud. And I most certainly did not want to pray them! (YES, Y...