My DEAD arse

Here I sit, it's 11:35 P.M. and I'm not sleepy. Usually I'm "sawing logs" by this time, but, hey! I've dozed off and on today so I'M NOT SLEEPY!!!!! I've had a sinus infection (I guess that's what it is!), so the meds have made me drowsy. I have been a SLUG for 2 days! I feel like my butt has grown to this couch! Thank goodness it's a COMFORTABLE couch! HAHA!...I was just thinking. Thinking about my life and how good it is. How blessed. I mean, yeah, I'd love to have more money. I'd love to weigh less. I'd love to be smarter. But, I'm me. Created by God and yet I also hold the keys to my own action. God is no Puppeteer who pulls my strings. He gives me the freedom of choice. Freedom to act and think and respond. For the past couple of days I've had the choice to just lay on my dead arse and watch t.v. mindlessly/get on FaceBook and nosily read what other people are doing! Not the best actions that I should be taking. I mean, realistically, life is short! I've always been the type to "grab all the gusto I can" which is why I always liked to stay up late and get up fairly early.Even as a child, I hated to miss anything! When I would go on a trip, I wanted to SEE IT ALL! I remember going to Europe and one particular day we were in Salzburg, Austria and Terry wanted to take a nap in the hotel. TAKE A NAP???? IN EUROPE??? IN AUSTRIA???? I "pitched a fit" and decided I would just go on my merry way and do what I wanted to do WHILE HE SLEPT! SO, I did! I started walking up and down the winding streets. BY MYSELF! This was a "biggie" for me, I don't usually like to do things alone. But I did. ANd I walked up to, what I thought was a church, but was , instead a CONVENT. I knocked on the door, BOLDLY, and a sweet nun opened the door. She didn't speak English and I didn't speak a lick of German. But we connected. We smiled and she opened the door and I walked in. We hugged and stared and nodded and I walked around. After awhile we hugged and I left. I found out later it was a CLOISTERED monastery!!!! !But , she let me in!!!! It was amazing, looking back on it. I'm so glad that I didn't TAKE A NAP that day! I'm glad I was adventurous and just took off and did my thing. I need that adventurous spirit again. I'm praying that God will give me that spark again and get me off my DEAD ARSE and get me moving. Right back into His adventures that He has waiting for me. Because time is of the essence!

Pieces of ME

Just a few random shots from a random day in the life of Janice P. Fry!