The Good, the pure, and the lovely

Sunday Evening   Happy Sunday Evening. I share with you a photo that brings me joy, happiness and contentment.  I hope it makes you smile today as well.   With Love, Christine ALK+ and happy

  Journey Part 3 - The Conclusions ~  Forgiveness is my key to emotional healing.  ~ I believe that forgiveness and emotional healing aid physical healing. I have been given so much help in the area of emotional healing. Family, friends, Sunday School teachers, pastors, teachers, our awesome family counselor and so many members of my healthcare team continue to support and encourage not just my physical needs, but also my emotions. I have been blessed to also be given forgiveness liberally from others which frees me to forgive more easily myself when I need to.   Forgiving, I learned over the years, is my key to digging out bitter thoughts, angry replies and over time releasing the hurt that drags me back to the pain in my mind. I have 43 years of solid “practice in forgiving”, but please, please don’t ask for my report card.  I hesitate to share that I rarely felt the "feeling of forgiveness" until recently, and that feeling occasionally wavers. That’s the thing about forgi

My Springtime Sunday Blessing 🐦 My recent posts take days and even weeks to write, edit and "publish". Today, I send off a quick "little note" to you. I could not sit through the lesson that blessed me this morning and not offer you the chance to also listen and hopefully be blessed. I went to church today to hear this sermon. I feel as if I waited a lifetime for this. One may wonder, how do you wait a lifetime for a teaching or sermon? I'm not always sure, but sometimes, I just know that I NEED to hear a lesson and it comes at the perfect moment. This moment, I needed this teaching. Maybe, if you have time to listen you may hear something that you've been waiting for too. May you be blessed today. May you rest and gain strength and insight for what lies ahead. May whatever YOU need to hear today be brought and delivered the way what I needed to hear was neatly and delightfully brought to me. The link to "my lesson for today" is provided below, al

Rooting out the Problems Part 2 🕊 We chose to NOT take legal action against our physician. It took a great amount of time, thought, prayer, personal consideration, and input from trusted advisors. The first moment I wondered if I should, I prayed to ask God’s guidance.  I asked him to guard me from rash decisions. I asked for protectection for every individual involved or touched by my choices. I wondered and prayed about my responsibility to others who faced similar struggles.  My very short prayer, which covered all this and more, was simply the words "Help Me". I utttered those words of prayer in the middle of the night, in desperation and exhaution after I read and re-read material that deeply concerned me. Those words helped me lay down my burdens. I cried “Abba, Father” (just "help me) in my heart, curled up in his emotional arms and cried myself to sleep. We have come a long way since this thought first crossed my mind. We worked through our personal decisions ov

May the Light I See Become a Blessing to You 🌟 Last week began a series of posts that came to me after a long year of health struggles. They re-open a personal dream of blogging that I laid aside when I lost the time and energy to keep up with my posts. Through these last weeks of heart-struggles, I rediscovered the dream, still rooted in my heart and growing. While I stopped blogging when life got busy, I occasionally blogged privately after cancer changed our lives. While writing these new posts, it encouraged me to see the old posts, including the darker ones from the early years of fighting cancer. I keep them all there as a record of our young family and of the hard, early years battling cancer. With these pages, I re-open my blog and renew the old hope of sharing my thoughts and words. I have more than just one new hope, but a small collection of hopes that l hold in my heart while on this journey. While I begin writing and sharing again, I must guard my time and energy carefull