Come with me on some Journaling Journeys
I finally got a video to work! I've had technical difficulties around here ALL WEEK but tonight, in my jammies.... I was able to make a video for you (and get it uploaded) about my FAVORITE journaling experiences. Learn where old journal entries had a MAJOR positive impact on my life later on! I hope you will go on an 15 min. journey with me that will inspire and motivate you to keep writing and keep healing!
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN!
I posted just the audio of this video on SOUND CLOUD Here!
Ok- I love you and trust you enough to share some of these actual entries with you and a few more for FUN!
Here is where I saw BILL NORTON'S name IN MY JOURNAL from 10 years before!!!!! I was on a zoom call with him when I found this. We were shocked and awed to say the least! (beginning and ending included here). Look at my super pumped up attitude at the end! Bill has always had that effect on me! Now we are doing what I said I wanted to do in that entry! And we are doing it together! :)
Incredibly, it got even better!! Here is a portion of the journal entry I talked about that was labeled "Real Vanilla Cake Recipe"
Jan. 13, 2019
Recipe for REAL VANILLA CAKE:
What will it be like to have a real husband?
I thought one day about the some day
The someday that one day will be
When I’m with my REAL husband, the one in my dreams
The one that will REALLY love me.
He won’t just say it or write it in a card
He will show me and tell me and it won’t even be hard
Because he will really feel it in his heart that feels feelings
I won’t even know what to do, my head will be reeling.
This husband of mine who has been waiting for years
To hug me and hold me and let me cry tears
Tears for the times I thought I would die
When I wanted to, wanted to, even just for a night.
When I thought I was trapped in a nightmarish hell
In a trap that was supposed to be better than well.
In a marriage with someone I loved and adored
Who acted annoyed when I talked and quite bored
He was supposed to love me and protect me from pain
Yet he was the one who brought it like a storm with some rain.
It always kept raining and I couldn’t make it stop.
I tried to be perfect and perfect till I dropped.
This poem is annoying because I don’t like the pattern.
So I’ll change it up as if it really mattern
Dear husband. I love you, I miss you. I don’t know you at all.
But once I meet you, I will wonder how I didn’t know you.
You will be so familiar I can’t remember not being with you, just like when you have a baby and they are instantly familiar.
I can’t wait to shower you with the love I’ve been growing. I am so used to loving people that are so hard to love. A person that said he loves me more than anyone else could.
What do you think of that dear husband? Do you take on the challenge? Do you think you could love me more than he could? ....
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One thing I love about both of these experiences with my poem/journal entries is that I DID KNOW MY FUTURE HUSBAND (I just didn't know it yet)! All along we had been friends, for almost 20 years and had no idea that we would one day be together. All those years working on church, political, business and freedom projects, as friends with NO CLUE that one day we would find love, safety and acceptance with each other! I just love it!! God is sooo good! The solution was being worked on before we ever began to pray for help. MY JOURNALS HELPED ME TO KNOW WHO I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WITH for the rest of FOREVER!!
Look what else I wrote in 2009... right after the stuff about Bill Norton... Does this kinda sound like our daily challenges right now?! I just noticed this tonight as I made this blog post! Notice the 4 bullet points...
