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Further…

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Daily writing prompt
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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My journey is far from over. There are many directions my path may take me, but they all lead to the same place… home.

I’m so far from where I was just last year. There’s no telling where I’ll be this time next year, let alone in 10 years.

It would be lovely to be further along in my publishing journey, but who’s to say. Life doesn’t come with a playbook, as we discover early on in our lives. Just a good number of road signs, traffic lights, and fender benders.

One learns early in life that nothing is for certain, no path written out in stone, and no guarantees that we won’t come out on the other side, unscathed.

There is hope, there is faith, and there is love for one another. Aside from that, all bet’s are off. When you come to fully understand this, there is great peace in taking each day as it comes. One day at a time, moment by moment, so we don’t miss the beauty in the journey. It is there, you know, if you search it out!

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(2025) New Hands…

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Describe one positive change you have made in your life.
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The easiest way to describe how new hands were such a positive change for me, is to just show you…

The old hands held onto so many painful things from the past, but with new hands on board, I began to let go…

When this began happening, I noticed how much strength began to return to my body. With two new hands, now free of waste, I have the freedom to use these hands for so much more… so much good!

There is freedom to reach out in love now, more and more each day, without guilt, shame, bitterness, resentment, anger or poison from the past.

… and, that also leaves oodles of spare time for one of my favorite hobbies. Take a wild guess…

ummm, baking cookies for you, of course!

Preferably when I’m asleep…

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What’s the most fun way to exercise?
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Some of the best things that happen to us, happen while we are dreaming. Granted, some of the worst things to happen, also occur while we’re sleeping. But, let’s focus on the good ones.

Why, I can ride horses with the best of them, without getting kicked, bit, or trampled. I can run fast enough to either catch the bad guy… or maybe just get away! I can be the most athletic, beautiful, and charismatic heroin, or be the best art thief never captured!

My point here is that we do our best, act our most capable, and accomplish more in our dreams than in the real world.

I’m not saying that people don’t exercise, as many do. It just seems that since jogging hurts every internal organ I own, and most exercise takes far more expendable energy that I wish to offer up, on a daily basis… sleep yoga is far cheaper, more fun, and you can do it for as long as you feel like it. I haven’t yet woken up feeling tired from my workouts. Well, most of the time, anyways.

Have a cookie…

(2024) I Already Am…

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If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
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If you know me at all, in even the least of my writings, you already know the answer I offer this prompt! In truth, we are all in the very same story, book, tale, movie, script or song… we are all intricately woven into God’s tapestry. Many have written about it, sung about it, reenacted the story in a movie or play, but in truth… we are all in there!

Why? John 3:16 baby! For God so love the world, that he gave his one and only son, that who so ever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life! If I got any of those words wrong, it’s due to simply writing without looking at my source, but you get the truth of it!

Here, have a cookie…

(2024) Depends on Who You Are…

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What animals make the best/worst pets?
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I’ve a list longer than my arm, filled with the names and breeds of differing pets living under my roof, at one time or another. My life began in the country, so early years hold memories of horses, dogs, cats, mice, and a few birds.

Parenthood brought forth tanks of fish, hamsters, bunnies, snakes, rats and a number of additional birds. Most parents are familiar with raising and caring for their children’s pets. If the animal didn’t live in our home, it lived in one of my kids friends homes.

I’ve worked for a veterinarian that owned a menagerie of differing rare species, dropped on the clinics doorstep. I sometimes wonder how many ill prepared families offered up their pets to the nearest vet, neighbors barn, field, stream or toilet?

My point here, is this… there is no perfect answer, as to the best and/or worst pets to own! Only three things come to mind, in choosing the right or wrong companion for your family. Can you afford to provide it a healthy and safe environment, will you be prepared to love and care for it throughout its entire lifespan, and does it belong in a home or in the wild? Outside of those things, pet owning experiences are open to interpretation, if you know what I mean.

My personal favorites are, of course, dogs cats and horses… but I also boast a large barnyard of crazy adorable babes that I wouldn’t trade for the world!

Here, have a cookie…

Egg hunting should be an Olympic sport…

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What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?
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Tell me you wouldn’t binge watch videos of children’s antics during an Easter Egg hunt, but you’d be fibbing.

Watching one child take eggs out of the basket of another who isn’t looking, or following another child around, only to steal his or her egg find? You’ve never watched? It’s a riot! I’d binge watch that Olympic sport for hours, if I could.

An egg hunt is the best place to determine whose going to be the next pastor, and/or who will be the next politician… just sayin!

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Better Cookies…

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How would you improve your community?
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Since this community is just right for me, the people oh so sweet, and the neighborhood so warm and inviting…

Well… all I want to improve would be the amount of cookies available to all who visit our street. The happier my community is, the better it makes me feel.

And, what would make a community improved? A sugar high, that’s what!

With more cookies comes more sugar, and more sugar brings out everybody’s happy vibes (well, unless you can’t have sugar).

So, what if a visitor to the community can’t eat regular cookies? That’s what I meant by more cookies, when suggesting what could improve the neighborhood. We need sugar cookies, of course, but we can also make sweeties out of other ingredients, in order to feed those with food sensitivities. Our WP community should NEVER be without sweets, in my opinion. Perhaps that’s why we have such sour politicians in government… not enough cookies!

Before you start thinking that I’m being flippant about caring for my community, I’ll stop you there, as I care very much for those around me. Sadly, I’m not able to become active within my actual neighborhood, as it is very unsafe to exist without my husband as my guardian. You don’t often get to choose your neighbors… only the physical distance between apartments. While I don’t physically go out into my community often, I do pray for them every day, so hopefully that counts for something.

And that, ladies and gents, is my reason for offering more cookies, more encouragement, more inspiration, and more unique characters within The Lobby. You are my community, my family, really.

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The cookies on the platter are made with a sugar substitute, as well as, there will now be fruit and nuts for more variety. Just covering all my bases.

Born to survive…

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How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
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Looking back over the last several years of answers to this prompt, I saw two sides of my own experience. Both sides were a bit painful to read through, but I did it as an exercise in being thorough. Don’t get me wrong. They were on point, in fact!

But, for the sake of my peace and tranquility, let’s opt for a fresh and uplifting answer to today’s question.

I made it!

We are still moving forward, and we’re nowhere near where we were this time last year. That’s progress!

As many of my readers and fellow bloggers already know, Covid-19 did quite a number on us. This time around, I choose to take back all that Covid has stolen from us. No, I don’t plan on reclaiming a bunch of lost junk and paper memories. I mean that I’ve no desire to let Covid take ownership over my emotions, my life, nor my journey’s direction.

Get off my lawn Covid!

Well, I don’t actually have a lawn, as of yet. But I will. You just wait and see…

Cookie time!!!

All the right stuff…

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What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
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Tea time, time in the word time, and prayer time. If I haven’t done these three things before my day gets started, my whole day is off, simply put.

I apologize for things being so short and simple these last several days. Yesterday was time with Maisie, and today I’ve an appointment in less than an hour.

But never fear, the cookies are here…

Like salt to pepper…

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Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?
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There are no two people alike! Not even twins are identical, even though they call them identical twins.

Cloning won’t even work, due to a unique thing residing within each body… that would be the soul, if you hadn’t already guessed.

I was just talking to my husband about this today, in the car, on the way home from seeing our grandbaby. If you cookie stamped out a hundred identical bodies, and then placed a hundred different souls into those bodies, you’d end up with a hundred unique creatures. Each would have individual somethings that render them different than all the others.

I feel like peas in a pod whenever I spend time with either of my two closest friends, and yet there isn’t a drop of blood shared between us. Most of my flesh and blood are nothing like me, nor my daughter’s, for that matter.

My oldest daughter and I look nearly identical, and couldn’t be more different… or perhaps we’re too much alike, and we drive each other batty.

My point is, ladies and gents, that out of all the 8.3 billion plus humans on the planet, each is unique… individual.

That is the way God sees us, as well.

No two are alike to him, nor can one’s behavior and character effect another’s ability to walk through the pearly gates! If God created my inmost being, knitting me together in my mother’s womb, he did it for each and every one of you. God loves you, cherishes your uniqueness, and jealously protects his relationship with you… you, just as you are and not like anyone else.

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