- wearing long sleeves and jeans and feeling just right.
- apple picking
- leaves changing colors
- getting an extra hour of sleep
- crunchy brown leaves under your feet.
- making soups from scratch
- bonfires
- warm beverages on a chilly day (not all beverages haha)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fall into Autumn
Things that I love about this season.
Monday, September 13, 2010
I want
There a only a few million things I want. That is considered a few right?
I want to pass this test I am studying for called the PCCN, (progressive critical care nurse) I really WANT to pass. I just hope that I can.
I want to play guitar, the urge is getting greater and greater to learn. I saved up my money one year and bought myself a guitar, from BJ's wholesale club! haha it was $99.00 and I still have my faithful friend. My classical Yamaha. Now i just need the discipline to learn and play it, and practice it.
I want to "love you from the inside out" and for justice and praise to become my embrace.
I want to be a great nurse as well as coworker. I don't want to eventually become lazy, or half-hearted.
I really don't want to talk about other people, and I don't want to feel ok if I do.
well I am going to go attempt to get better at the guitar.
I want peace for you.
I want to pass this test I am studying for called the PCCN, (progressive critical care nurse) I really WANT to pass. I just hope that I can.
I want to play guitar, the urge is getting greater and greater to learn. I saved up my money one year and bought myself a guitar, from BJ's wholesale club! haha it was $99.00 and I still have my faithful friend. My classical Yamaha. Now i just need the discipline to learn and play it, and practice it.
I want to "love you from the inside out" and for justice and praise to become my embrace.
I want to be a great nurse as well as coworker. I don't want to eventually become lazy, or half-hearted.
I really don't want to talk about other people, and I don't want to feel ok if I do.
well I am going to go attempt to get better at the guitar.
I want peace for you.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
embrace
"In my heart and my soul
Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord, let justice and praise
become my embrace
to love you from the inside out"
This is a pretty good song, but today in church the part that says
"Let justice and praise become my embrace" really stood out to me.
I said inwardly, "God I want this, to live like this, to be defined as this"
But what does it really mean. If I want it so bad what does it mean and how do you get there?
To me at this point it means to love God and love others, in that there is praise, and in that there is justice. Justice for others, justice for me. Just curious I looked up the definition for justice here it is:
"Your Dictionary provides the definition of justice as the quality of being righteous or fair. Many philosophers, theologians and others define justice as the proper ordering of people and things. Behind the concept of justice lies the notion of balance--that people get what is right, fair and appropriate. Justice also includes the notion of upholding the law, as in the work of police, judges and the court."
It sounds so simple, maybe because it is? Why do we complicate things that are simple?
I think once this is grasped it can be something that changes you, "from the inside out"
"In my heart and my soul
Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord, let justice and praise
become my embrace
to love you from the inside out"
any thoughts are welcome.
Peace to you
Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord, let justice and praise
become my embrace
to love you from the inside out"
This is a pretty good song, but today in church the part that says
"Let justice and praise become my embrace" really stood out to me.
I said inwardly, "God I want this, to live like this, to be defined as this"
But what does it really mean. If I want it so bad what does it mean and how do you get there?
To me at this point it means to love God and love others, in that there is praise, and in that there is justice. Justice for others, justice for me. Just curious I looked up the definition for justice here it is:
"Your Dictionary provides the definition of justice as the quality of being righteous or fair. Many philosophers, theologians and others define justice as the proper ordering of people and things. Behind the concept of justice lies the notion of balance--that people get what is right, fair and appropriate. Justice also includes the notion of upholding the law, as in the work of police, judges and the court."
It sounds so simple, maybe because it is? Why do we complicate things that are simple?
I think once this is grasped it can be something that changes you, "from the inside out"
"In my heart and my soul
Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord, let justice and praise
become my embrace
to love you from the inside out"
any thoughts are welcome.
Peace to you
Friday, September 10, 2010
looking forward
What are somethings you look forward to?
I love getting mail!
coffee in the morning.
this fall weather that is creeping up.
seeing friends.
What is something unique that you like that others may not notice?
I love how creamer in coffee, esp iced coffee looks before you stir it, it is gorgeous!
The weather today seems spectacular. I am going to have to figure out something to do in it.
Apple picking has started I cannot wait to go!!
Today's blog has been a Hodge-podge of thoughts, waiting to hear how my dads doctor's appointment went yesterday! glad to be off work the next couple of days! now I should study for my PCCN.
I love getting mail!
coffee in the morning.
this fall weather that is creeping up.
seeing friends.
What is something unique that you like that others may not notice?
I love how creamer in coffee, esp iced coffee looks before you stir it, it is gorgeous!
The weather today seems spectacular. I am going to have to figure out something to do in it.
Apple picking has started I cannot wait to go!!
Today's blog has been a Hodge-podge of thoughts, waiting to hear how my dads doctor's appointment went yesterday! glad to be off work the next couple of days! now I should study for my PCCN.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
taking care
We (us nurses) always ask family members, "Are you eating?" "are you taking care of yourself?" "you know you can't take care of others if you can't take care of yourself"
Am I taking care?
Of what? others, yes. myself, I think so.
As a nurse there are many challenges, being the "middle man" between family and doctors, neither ones seem very happy to deal with the other.
I got some news today that my dad is not doing so hot, which is not the picturing he has been painting me. He has lost about 30lbs in about 4 or 5 months. He has crohns disease or ulcerative collitis, which is an inflammation of your large intestine, which prevents water absorption, cause lots of diarrhea, he goes to the bathroom about 16 to 20 times a day (that is were the weight loss comes from) this is an autoimmune disease so there is not a cure, there are several things you can do but not much has worked for him. I knew he was doing better but he says he is all right.
So I got a call from my stepmother Lynn and she basically said he looks horrible, like he is dying, she keeps telling him to go to a specialist but he is a stubborn one. Lynn was calling me to tell him to go to a specialist. you have to know she is a strong woman and has really never asked me for much of anything so the impact of what she did hit me like a ton of bricks, and of course Paul is at work so I had no shoulder to cry on, just my sleeves. so I went to the best help and just started reading my bible and was reading in Colossians 1:15 to 23 and I read Psalms 84. Both talk about the character of God and in Psalsms84:11 "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."
God is good and that can hold the tears from my eyes and allow me not to worry. I have peace. and hopefully the strength to call him later to tell him to go to a specialist with out crying! haha
ok so the meaning of the title to me is, someone asked me what "RN" stood for and they said "real nurse" haha so cute and funny, no it stands for Registered Nurse, to clear up any confusion. but I also meant it to mean that I am Real. and also a nurse. Yep thanks for reading my blog. Hope your day is challenging in a way that brings you closer to God, and perhaps closer to others.
peace to you.
Am I taking care?
Of what? others, yes. myself, I think so.
As a nurse there are many challenges, being the "middle man" between family and doctors, neither ones seem very happy to deal with the other.
I got some news today that my dad is not doing so hot, which is not the picturing he has been painting me. He has lost about 30lbs in about 4 or 5 months. He has crohns disease or ulcerative collitis, which is an inflammation of your large intestine, which prevents water absorption, cause lots of diarrhea, he goes to the bathroom about 16 to 20 times a day (that is were the weight loss comes from) this is an autoimmune disease so there is not a cure, there are several things you can do but not much has worked for him. I knew he was doing better but he says he is all right.
So I got a call from my stepmother Lynn and she basically said he looks horrible, like he is dying, she keeps telling him to go to a specialist but he is a stubborn one. Lynn was calling me to tell him to go to a specialist. you have to know she is a strong woman and has really never asked me for much of anything so the impact of what she did hit me like a ton of bricks, and of course Paul is at work so I had no shoulder to cry on, just my sleeves. so I went to the best help and just started reading my bible and was reading in Colossians 1:15 to 23 and I read Psalms 84. Both talk about the character of God and in Psalsms84:11 "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."
God is good and that can hold the tears from my eyes and allow me not to worry. I have peace. and hopefully the strength to call him later to tell him to go to a specialist with out crying! haha
ok so the meaning of the title to me is, someone asked me what "RN" stood for and they said "real nurse" haha so cute and funny, no it stands for Registered Nurse, to clear up any confusion. but I also meant it to mean that I am Real. and also a nurse. Yep thanks for reading my blog. Hope your day is challenging in a way that brings you closer to God, and perhaps closer to others.
peace to you.
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