The Start of Something....My Blog

It is with some excitement and apprehension that I start this endeavor called a blog.  If you have read  my title and decided to take a peek, to see if i can make you smile, I hope you won't be dissapointed.  But also realize, I may have some posts that may not make any of smile, but for some reason I may feel led to share my thoughts even if not so 'sunshiny".  My goal is to try and be an encouragement or share things that I have heard or read that I think might be uplifting to others.   I will share hopes and dreams that I have that  might generate future smiles.  I believe in sharing good things, even when those things may seem gloomy at the time because it is my hope that every experience in my life will in the end yield something good.

 

In my explaination under my blog title, I refer to one other person who shared many smiles with me and that is my mom.  I was blessed to have her for almost 50  years of my life.  She passed away from this life to heaven on May 20. 2010 after an eight year battle with colon cancet.  It is in her honor that I attempt this blog.  So many people who speak so fondly of my mom include a statement about her smile!  I am grateful that she instilled in me some of her faith and strength and gift of encouragement.  She used her gifts in her own special way to  reach out and touch people with her smile, her faith, and her love of  Jesus Christ.  Her life lessons to me were never loud or proud, but sweet and intentional.  Those things she taght me are a big part of who I am today.


If it were not for her love and example, I am not too sure I could have ever put a smile on my own face in the last 10 years that I have lived and coped with Parkinson's disease.  You will see that as another focus of my blog.  I hope that somehow I might share something of benefit with someone who may read this that is living with a chronic illness or living with a chronically il person or even if you are friends with someone who has PD or another chronic illness.


I will make no apologies ahead of time for mentioning things that some may find old-fashion or about my faith in God.  I will ask for your patience if I get off on a tangent or otherwise non-sensible topic. It's ok in my book to just be silly evey once in awhile.  If you read more than this one post, I pray you will be blessed by doing so, and realize that I am just an ordinary woman looking forGod's guiding light so that I can reflect some of it to others, and maybe be rewarded by seeing a smile on their face along the way.


Me and my Mom

Judy