Tales from a Tattooed Heart

It's February and since the last days of December we have been reminded with red and pink hearts that soon we would be celebrating a day of love... Well a day that we are supposed to spoil that special someone with chocolates and stuffed bears, flowers and dipped strawberries, love notes and fancy candle lit dinners. From December on we may be either looking forward to the 14th of February with delight and fanciful day dreams or dread and irritation. How we look forward to that big V-Day probably has much to do with whom or whom-not we are to be spending it with. More often than not some V-Days have been more special and meaningful, just because whom we may have had the pleasure spending it with and how it was celebrated. I know that for myself personally Caleb and I are pretty low key when it comes to Valentines Day, mainly because we celebrate our anniversary shortly after and I much prefer all the discounted presents over the full price ANYTIME! However, as with most people loo...

Dear Big Father God, I thank you. I thank you for the big things in my life like; my family, my friends, my health, my home and of course toilet paper. I thank you for the small things like; coffee with creamer, warm socks, a view out my window and gas in my small bus. Today I thank you for the big and small things alike because tomorrow I'm not guaranteed to have any of the above. Tomorrow I may be seeking for the very thing I'm thankful for today, so today I take the extra measure of time to praise you for what I have today, knowing that the things I have today are already answers to my past pleadings and prayers, and I praise you for them today as maybe someday in the future I will need to ask for them again. Lord, in a moment of transparency with you and others, I ask that you will tune my heart in on the things that are not so earthly bound. All of the things I've thanked you for some at a cost, a style, a choice for me to have obtained it, and although you have prov...