Life is a journey: Discovering who God created me to be.

The meaning of friend is a person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; one who supports, sympathizes with, and is trustworthy.  Over the past few weeks I have really been thinking about my friendships and the types of friends that I have now and the type of friend that I am to others. After mom passed I am literally the only person living in the Washington D.C. area.  I have no family other than my husband and children.  So over the years I've created a small network of friends who I now call my family.  But this extremely exclusive network has come with a cost.  When I think back to my college years there were so many friendships that I didn't nurture.  Instead I got lazy and I didn't put the time and effort into them.  And now I hardly talk to many people who once had been very close and dear to me.  In the past I would use the excuse that I had Maya as a way to make myself feel better but I think that I just got lazy.  ...

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Often times in my life I have been faced with an issue or a situation in which I feel so helpless.  I feel like I have no control over my life and I almost go crazy over the idea that I cannot do anything about where I am going.  But then I think of the serenity prayer and I realize that there are certain situations that I must go through so that God can teach me a lesson.  One of my biggest lessons that I am still trying to achieve is patience.  I have a hard time waiting and trusting on God to work my situation out. I can think of countless times when I could not hold on to God's promise and wait.  Instead I took the issue into my own hands and tried to "fix" it and then I ended up in a bigger mess than that which I started.  And guess what happens next?  I still need to come to God and ask for help and Hi...