Tempus Fugit

                            As September has zipped right through her days and now is sailing forward to October I am at a loss as to how fast time is going since I became a senior.
                           I want the days of my youth when I ran and played with my siblings,no thought for how a meal would be there to feed us....no thought for how the roof over our heads got paid....no thoughts other then happiness for the day.  no thoughts of tomorrow,I would sleep soundly and awake to a day of school-homework-playing again...I had no worries as I do now...
                        Generation after generations life goes on...Grandpa and Grandma leave us and soon we are the grandparents, smiling and happy to play with the grandchildren.  Proudly smiling as our children work a good job-have children& strive to be a good citizen ...paying their bills and living "The Good Life".  It is their turn to be responsible, making their children have no thoughts of where a meal would come from,knowing they could sleep soundly and live the carefree life of a child.
                         I am reminded of the verses in the Bible of "A time to live and A time to die", we will all die to this world-yet only by accepting the grace of our father in heaven-We can live eternally.
                         Our lives on earth are so short compared to what we can have afterwards.
                          I have met many people on my journey moving forward, in jobs that I have had, in neighborhoods where I lived.  In church where we met and Love was shared.
                          I hope your journey has been a good one and that you are ready to live that eternal life ahead, I want to meet you again my friends and family.....Accept and live.

~Missing my sister Linda Louise,written by Pauline~

You have only been gone a short time from this earth and your body, as I write these words.
I sit here remembering your big heart and your smiling face.  I want to hug you one more time and know this will not happen.  You said many times you were ready to go but, I was not ready...will never be ready.

I know you are in a better place even before your body leaves the nursing home, you are soaring with the angels...running around on new feet,your body restored.

While I sit here with tears in my eyes and a hole in my heart...just thinking~I wish I had one more time to call.

Sisters should not have to be parted and now I have lost two of mine, younger sisters that should still be living and loving.  Now you are together ,you can watch for the rest of us.  We will be heading in your direction, keep an eye out for us...soon we will be together again.

September is Linda's birthday month and thoughts of her have visited my thoughts so pulled this poem I had written the day she died....My heart was so heavy with loss.  she died in April
Only a month later in May David,husband to Linda died suddenly ...leaving us stunned.

A Love Transformed by Tracie Peterson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Series Sapphire Brides, Book #3 "A Love Transformed" by Tracie Peterson

I have not read any in this series but this book and it read great as a stand alone.
Clara is a niave young woman who lets her mother plan her life for her and so she marries Adolph who is older and only marries her for prestege-there is no love between them yet they have a birth of twins and seem to get along with one another. Clara has no idea what happens in his business. She does do designs for him on the jewelry his company sells. He takes the credit and she does the work.
When she learns her husband has been killed ,his twin brother tells her that she will get nothing as her husband gambled it all away-bad deals.
Clara is afraid her Mother will come and force her into another loveless marriage so she packs all their things and travels to Montana to an aunt and uncle that she has stayed with when she was young. She had loved her summers there and wanted her children to see it.
There had been a summer romance and she still loves him, now she is destined to meet Curtis again. Can they find the love they once had and have a future together?

I was given this book by Bethany House to read and review,thank you .


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A Sensible Arrangement by Tracie Peterson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A sensible Arrangement by Tracie Peterson

I picked this one up at thrift shop, because I like reading this author.

Marty Dandridge Olson is a widow and lives on a Texas ranch..she was devastated when her husband was killed by a bull. Now 4 years later she wants to move thinking the ranch is a dangerous place.
One day she sees an ad in the paper from a man in Colorado looking for a texas woman who would like to come and have a sensible arrangement by marrying and living with him.
Its a way out that she is considering.
Jacob Wythe was a texan now living in Colorado and working as a banker. His heart is in Texas and hopes to return there one day and have his own ranch. This is one think he neglects to tell Marty when they write one another.
As the wife of a banker Marty must change the way she has lived and become a socialite. The president of the bank's wife wants to help her adapt and so much of it just seems trivial and Marty is soon bored. She had always been busy working on the ranch and now she had servants to do all the work in the home. She was to become like a social butterfly going from tea to tea.
Their marriage was to be ,just an arrangement, but both of them soon find they are so comfortable with one another and beginning to have feelings that are nothing like arrangements. Can they change -who must speak first? They are married after all.
I enjoyed reading this story and know you will too,from beginning to end this couple were respectful and each learning from the other that sensible arrangements could change if they had the courage to move forward.


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