Blue Eyes

A few weeks ago I was taking my walk after dinner and a beautiful dog came running around me. Not up to me but around me and back and forth. He had magical blue eyes! I kept waking and assumed he stayed at his house. I was walking about 10 more minutes and came to this house with alot of dogs in the back yard and as I walked by the fence the dogs started barking and jumping the fence the beautiful blue eye dog came running around me first and then to the fence. He was clearly protecting me! I was in awe of this and felt so close to God at that moment. I forgot about until this A.M.

I was sitting here reading my devotional book and my room mate had her dog Bo on his leash and was about to go out for their morning walk. I heard her scream! and yell....and i ran out to the front of the house and she said "Cheryl, There is a German shepherd out there" and I was amazed that a dog would be sitting on the porch. It startled her because she almost let Bo out the door and Bo is a Pit Bull. A sweet pit bull mind you but never the less a pit bull!

I went to look out the window and it was blue eyes! Oh My Gosh......From God. My protector! I know all this seems so silly but its true. My room mate tried to shoo him away and I said "he is my protector" she just went out back and left that way and im sure she must be thinking her room mate has finally cracked up!

This is "The Summer That Changed My Life"

Gratitude.....

This morning I woke up with a tear falling down my face. What a way to wake up! Yet, it was not sadness or anger or confusion. It was a deep gratitude that hit me right in the heart as soon as I opened my eyes. Out of the blue...unexpected.

I have been sitting here for 30 minutes thinking about what to write in my Cheryl journal and for the life of me I could not get this emotion down on paper, yet I want to share it. The day I started this journey last January I simply had tears running down my face and I looked up at my mentor, with my sisters all around me and one with her arms around me and said "I don't have words" That is not something Cheryl says! I always have words! Yet, its was true and many times on my journey I lack words and that is ok and that is perfect and excellent as there does not always have to be words when the emotion is that deep and even when its something emotionless and drama free or simple I have learned that its ok to be silent. To reflect and as a friend of mine tells me "Dramatic Pause"

I am grateful this morning and blown away once again by the blessings I have and by those that bless me and most of all by God who never fails me.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
-Melody Beattie