I Am Essentially Hooked

My new phrase is, there is an oil for that. Yep I have jumped with both feet into the world of essential oils. My youngest daughter gave me the kit for Christmas and I have always got something going in the diffuser or in my water bottle. I have been able to come off of some of my prescription medicines and feel better all the way around. I have a pain cream for my knees, a capsule of lemon and peppermint I take for weight loss, a capsule of cedarwood I take for sleep and I diffuse Thieves to keep away the germs and orange at night to help me sleep. I have started doctoring everyone I come in contact with using my oils. If you have a runny nose, I have an oil for that. If you have a cough, I have an oil for that. If you snore, I have an oil for that too. People laugh and say that I am dabbling in witchcraft. No way...these are oils that you can find talked about in the Bible. There are something like 150 different oils. I would rather tell people that I use Bible Brew. LOL. But seriously, I'm not going hippy crazy about using oils but I am happy that I can stop using some of the really harsh chemicals that I have been putting in my body all of these years. I only wish I had known about them a long time ago.

Life has really been a lot of fun in the last couple of months. Thank goodness Christmas has come and gone and all the mess is cleaned up. I had really started to get carried away with decorating this year. If Christmas hadn't of come around so fast I'm afraid I would have blown the house up. We even had to add electrical outlets outside and new breakers to cover some of the things I had put up. Just imagine the look I got when I told my husband I needed to have outlets added to the outside. It was priceless. He is used to me telling him that I have started a project, but usually I do it myself and don't involve him in the process. We had lights everywhere. I have to say though I did enjoy looking at my decorations more this year than I have in a long time. I thought it was just the right balance and turned out pretty good even if I do say so myself.

The days have gotten cold, the nights have gotten colder. I think there have been more days with rain than without in the last year. I feel like I never got to enjoy summer last year because it was so wet. I am sitting here covered in my essential oils thinking about what to cook for supper. I know this post has rambled a bit, but if you read the header you will see that it tells you these are my daily ramblings. Here comes the part where I ask you to try something. Find something that brings you happiness, brings back a memory or just makes you feel better and give it a try. You might find out that even when the days are shorter and the weather turns bleak you can still find a smile hiding somewhere. Find something simple that makes you smile and get hooked. If you have trouble figuring it out, contact me, there is probably an oil for that.

Be Blessed

2014 New Beginnings

Another year has come and gone. There have been so many changes. People have come and gone from our lives and there have been opportunities taken and missed. I have decided to make 2014 a year that I look into opportunities with my eyes wide open and consider things that I may not have considered before. I will make a commitment to become even closer to God than I have been in the past, I will reach out to people and reconnect with those that I haven't seen or talked to for a long time. I have spent the day making connections with family that I haven't seen except for funerals since I was a child. It has always saddened me as I get older when I see families that have stayed connected all their lives and know that I have family members that my children will never know. For that matter there are family members that I haven't met yet. At one time these are people my family would make a point to visit or talk to on a regular basis, but now it has been left to us, the children, to make these connections last and we have failed. I hope to make a change in this because we all need family. I found out today that I have lost loved ones that I had always intended to keep in touch with as I grew older, but life always seemed to get in the way. If you want to have people reach out to you and make an effort to stay in touch you have to make that effort yourself.

I not only want to reach out to family I also want to reach out to those people that I haven't met yet. A stranger that starts a conversation in the store, someone that looks like they may just need a smile or kind word in a doctors office. I want to tell more people what God has done in my life and how He can make such a huge difference in their life also. I want everyone to know that there is someone that loves them more than anyone here on earth can love them. Someone that gave His son so that they may have everlasting life. I want the joy that has been given to me to spread like wild fire through everyone I meet and leave a smoldering ember that will grow larger and larger with a need to hear more about God's abundant love. A fire that can never be extinguished by water, but only fed by the word of God.

2013 a year that has passed, memories that will last a lifetime. 2014 a year of new beginnings, new outlooks and old family and friends reunited. Wouldn't it be nice to go through a year without any plans for tomorrow but just to wake up and see what happens? We don't live in a world where we can do that, but I can try to wake up everyday with an outlook that leads me to be more flexible in the plans I do have for the day. I hope if you read this you have made a commitment to put God first in your life and let Him show you the road to travel. It may be a road full of ups and downs, but in the end what better driver could you have?

May God Bless You with more than you can imagine in this new year.
Tammy