Hey Y’all….. Sorry I haven’t written in awhile…. life is nuts… but glorious.  I am SO thankful that I can FREELY share what is in my heart and this crazy brain of mine. 

BARK, BARK, BARK – Oh, the incessent barking coming from the dog that lives behind us.  On and On… it continues… how annoying it is….

I was reminded of that barking dog… in myself recently… I had an opportunity to speak with a friend of my son’s mother.  We have only just met a couple weeks prior and instantly I felt very at ease with her.  We happened to be watching our sons play against each other in a soccer match.  She is very engaging and we were “chatting”.  She asked me about my life, my background and I freely answered.  All the while, trying to watch my son play the sport he loves.  Which is not a bad thing – NO, that is why i was there.  But what was bad that all the time she was talking with me.  I realize I was just talk about myself and my family.  I asked very little about hers.  I barked incessently about my life… and didn’t even stop to allow her to add to the conversation…  I was a clanging cymbal… a barking dog…. I was annoying…

I think about how many times in other conversations, I bark incesently about myself… my life, my struggles, my background, my mistakes… to those who are around me…   even within this BLOG….  when what i want to do is be a place of encouragement and support…  to show people my Jesus…  I am not very effective when all I do is talk about me…  So I want learn to EDIT myself… and remove all the unnecessary words…(barking) … and get to a place that when do speak (bark) the ones around me will want to listen and not be annoyed with me…. but they will be encouraged by me… or better yet my Jesus.