August 11, 2011
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Who Are You, Really?
I love to meet new people. Or, better said, meet people, like for the very first time. Because really, people are pretty well NOT new when you meet them. Babies fresh out of the womb are new. THOSE are my favorite kinds of people! Very, very soon, I will get to know and hold my 5th Grandwonder. I wonder what he will BE like, sound like, LOOK like, smell like…face up, face down. The pictured flower is upside down. The rightside up form is/was beautiful. Familiar, if you know flowers. I flipped it over to have another perspective and was deLIGHTed to see the beauty underneath. In fact, I liked the underneath beauty even better. It’s what’s hidden from the ravages of the world, the environment, the influences, that I want to expose and see. What is it really all about? What are you really about? What makes you beautiful underneath? What are you afraid others might see and not like? I have met and seen some of you IRL (In Real Life) and I know that you truly are beautiful. For that, my life is richer and more beauty-filled, like a garden with many varieties of flowers. As a Grammy, my garden is filling with those little Wonders. What a B.L.E.S.S.I.N.G.
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I love this perspective. The flower is so beautiful from underneath. God and His ways make me beautiful…continually seeking more of that.
You are a blessing. And a 5th grand wonder… blessed woman! Mine is a coming…they start driving this evening and will be driving through the night. Please pray for good traveling and a content, sleeping baby
Hopefully in my arms tomorrow morning!
@ABAHM - Oh Jenny, I will definately pray for your little family as they make the long drive to you! I’ll be looking for new photos of that cute little guy!
I like this. And congrats on a new upcoming grandbaby. Too funny…about other people that you meet not really being so “new” especially when they are 30+ years old, huh?
A beautiful post about perspective, Gail — lovely flower to illustrate, too!
HeY Richgem!!!! Missed u too tons!!! Thx for dropping by and commenting!!
I love in your post how ya called your grandbaby
A GRANDWONDER!!!! Awee thats so sweet!!!
Ya I will post more detailed post in a lil while I really missed xanga
And miss the support and now my therapist lol
Is making journaling mandatory to help me with anxiety
But doing it on xanga is WAY more fun!!!!
Luv ya gal!! Beautiful Post!!
I have a new baby – Proud Auntie to Baby Jade
My first niece on my side of the family. I have another niece arriving end of August. 
Then I go get my “baby” hopefully in November (if paper work and crazy countries cooperate) Sooooo I loved this post!!
@appalolly - Oh, Hunny Bunny, you’re not so old, either! 30+ is SUCH a fabulous time! I still remember what it was like! ( 8 I do know your wisdom is there, which is so awesome to see!
@slmret - Thank you, Janet! ( 8
@Ms_BeautyExpert - Journaling on xanga IS WAY more fun, although I do still SOMEtimes take the time to handwrite an entry in my beloved book. As for coping with anxiety, I pray, listen to great music, eat chocolate, oh and breathe!
@rugbana - I do hope the paperwork and crazy countries cooperate! God’s timing is best!
What a beautiful post very thought pervoking. I would like to think that the saying is so true that beauty is skin deep. But I also know that beauty comes from the heart. Love this
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ryc: I am still dancing & Praising the Lord thanks for your many prayers my friend
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Oh and congrats on the new grand baby soon to be born!
Great post on perspective. 5 Grandbabies, how wonderfu!. I have 7 but all except Matt live away and I don’t get to see them as much as I would like to. Just having them and spending whatever precious time with them is a joy for me. I absolutely love being Gramma!
I love this! Knowing what is so often hidden is the best kind of beauty.
@rugbana - November?!!! hoping and praying!
congratulations on another grand person! love the perspective and analogy that you shared…and am grateful for your love filled eyes and heart that sense and see the roses about others instead of just thorns.
@Mymanyblessings - I KNOW that beauty comes from the heart!
@oldfatgramma - It must be hard to not get to see all the rest of them!
@kamrandolph - Absolutely right on!
@down_onthefarm - Awww, Cindy. It’s great if we can all love the entire flower. Hard to do with some people, I do admit!!!
@down_onthefarm - Yeah, those thorns…sometimes I focus too much on them and then later on, when I notice the flowery beauty of someone, I feel bad for having judged them based on their thorniness!
gail, i know you as “seeing” what is hidden! hoping. believing.
like rosebuds, before they are opened, you have looked past thorns to what is coming!
So far I don’t have any Grandwonders…I’m waiting patiently but as other’s my age are now starting to experience that blessing…I’m getting a little ansy!
As for who am I really? That’s a tough question as I continue to surprise myself, both pleasantly and not so pleasant.
Always a work in progress I suppose!
Underneath these disabilities and this wheelchair I am a really funny person, out going, I love to help other disabled people. I called seven hills on Friday to see if I can work at day program so that I can feel better about myself. I use to work at one close to where I live but they don’t want me anymore and I know that my current pca isn’t glad that I am going to work because she’ll loose money and now she’s looking for a ne job but I need something to do too. I can’t always stay home and she always wants to be out and I need to get out of my chair and last Thursday she wanted to go to her moms but I didn’t want too because her dad makes fun of my tattoo the 3:16 that I have on my arm he always says “it’s not 3:16″ even my brother in law Bret he does the same thing too
this post was lovely~ so poetic, and what a true perspective! it’s what’s underneath that counts.
congrats on babygrandwonder#5. i just love that you call them grandwonders!!!
{{hugs}} to you Gail~ and thanks for your prayers and encouragement w/ shayne.
Love this analogy. Congratulations on your 5th Grandwonder. We have 8 and the youngest are 14, oldest 22, and all very much a blessing to us.
@Lucy_or_Ethel - They really and truly ARE a blessing…SO fun! My daughter-in-law feels like a walrus; poor thing. She was hoping to give birth by now!
@DawneElla - Dawnie, I like that you said you continue to suprise yourself, pleasantly and not pleasantly! That’s something I’ve seen in myself. Sometimes I ask me, “Where did THAT come from???” !!! I hope some day you will be a Grammy…a grandbaby is such a joy!
@daddieschocolatequeen - I really do feel for you and will pray that you’ll be able to get out and about and that you’ll get a better pca who cares, truly about your needs. Oh, I’m guessing you love chocolate? I do!!! Can’t go a day without it in some form or other! Thake care, Dearie.
@grace_to_be - Thank you, Dolly. Isn’t it great (well, usually), when God tells us something we’d already sort of knew (cuz he already told us), but this time it’s in another perspective/language and we’re like, ohwowyeahIGETit!?!? ( 8 )-)-)-)-=====>> The arrows of the enemy are ALways pointed at us. I pray my shield on, I pray your shield on. WE are on the victory side!
@Richgem - when my dad was alive he always called me his chocolate queen he died of stage 3 colon cancer but through his cancer he taught me how to live
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