A 20 Mile Ride w Honey...IN JANUARY!

Ridin the quad 20 miles w/ honey on a cold january day! well this day...it wasn't that cold! Though today...it is only single digits! Hard to believe this...was last weekend!  Enjoyed a lovely day out!

WV Scenes are sooo lovely!! Winter, Fall, Summer, Spring...what ever time of year! The beauty is amazing!!!

One of the trails we rode...we had a gorgeous day to enjoy in the forties in January!!! What ever season...you find yourself in...enjoy and take the time to get off the beaten path's...and see the beauty around!! 

Home made Taco seasoning DO IT YOURSELF...

1/4 cup ancho chili powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 to 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (to taste)
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp paprika
2 tbsp ground cumin
3 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

New Years No Fear!

Tackle your New Year w/ No fear!  Fear is the opposite of Faith.  When we Fear more, we have faith less.  To be double minded the Bible says, is to be unstable in all our ways...To lean toward faith one minute and fear the next, is double minded.  Set your mind. to accomplish...that with which you're strivng for!  And don't quit! We can re start! But don't quit!  I think some folks feel like, well, I started that last year, and it didn';t work...but...re start it again...Its not in the re starting that is bad, its in the never tackling it again and being conquered by it! YOU...are More than a conqueror! over come! Dont' be...over come!  Better Faith and better me!  Physically, spiritually and emotionally and me!  re building, re doing, a new year!  2012....is another chance at it!  Start it w/ Prayer and in...Gods Word! RE...comitt to it...and STICK...to it!  Build your spirit man up!!  and your other parts will fall in to place!  This is a fresh start to our new year.  Write down your thots...journal them out...it helps us to see and feel what God is speaking to us!  And then DO IT!  I walked/tread milled FIVE miles again...but I DID IT!  I started thru the Word...ahgain...but I'm doing it!! Keep on keepn on...and new years...no fears!  Lots...to think about, but nuttn to worry about!  YOU...can make it...do it...ah gain...but, JUST DO IT!!  Now where's my camera, I'm off to get some New years pics!! be blessed!! and enjoy your 2012!! 

Book Review of - Washington - By Paul Vickery- Review by-Lisa Nelson

The reason, I chose Washington: A Legacy of Leadership by Paul Vickery and Stephen Mansfield  was for the most part because I felt that although I knew some about Washington as leader, I know very little about  Washington the man.

Throughout the book, there are  many lesser-known facts about Washington’s life  based much of the book on original sources such as Washington’s own letters. He has seemingly viewed Washingtons life, in  mostly in a positive light but didn't forget to offer of the mistakes he'd made in life as well!

Another point,  that makes this book very interesting is the presence of a large number of pictures and illustrations depicting various events from Washington’s life and America’s history.

If you are a history buff or a biography lover, you will no doubt love this book, but if not, be prepared for a long read.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze® book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Love God, Hate the world...

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever." (1 John 2:15-17.  We are in the world, but not of..the world.  The world, can't get in to us...it's ways...manners, styles, words, thots...actions.  If a boat is in the water, it's all good, but if the same water, starts getting in the boat, its NOT GOOD!  When our lives, start taking in the world, it is NOT good either.  We will sink fast, just like the boat...we cannot stay afloat that way!  Too many times, Christians, try to have life both ways.  Thinking they can have some of God and some of the world, and it'll all work out?  That is only tragedy waiting to happen!  When we have...parts of the world in us, we become like the world more and less...like the Father God.  What you have the most of inside you, is what you are closest to!  The Word of God helps to prevent the world from setting to far in to us!  Keeping daily in the Word, helps to abstain, from the worlds passions, desires, and temptations.  We can't do it without the Word, it is our strength and our guidebook.  We also need a lifeline of prayers to God.  NOT...just in trouble, but daily.  We need to have the relationship with God that is not based on just when we need Him, we run to Him, but, in that we can't make it, without meeting with HIM!  You can't go through your days, and never talk to God and expect to overcome this world.  You must, have a relationship with Christ, that is so strong, you'd never want to let Him down.  When we make excuses for excess baggage, instead of getting rid of weights that slow us down, they will be our demise.  Excuses, are our way of saying, I'm ok with this and thinking that because WE are, that GOD is OK with whatever it is too.  He is NOT ok, with sins, and once we know it's wrong, and do it anyway, it's sin.  Lord help me to be more like you.  Help me to be real.  Its sad, that we are so many times, a bad billboard, for a Christian life and walk.  When we SAY we love Him, we'll DO...what He asks, it goes hand in hand.  Our love, equals our obedience.  This world is only temporary, we are passing thru.  Don't get attached to it, or its things! They glitter, they sparkle and they lure, but they are also poisoned.  They leave you empty and feeling hurt and alone.  It does not FILL you as only Christ can!  Love God...Hate sin...it works, no other way.  Oh but Lisa, I only do this or that, on weekends, or I just do this to unwind, or God understands, its not that...bad...all excuses for weights that slow us down.  Run with endurance the race, and get rid of the things that so easily beset you.  If God hates, it we should too.  Don't play with it!  Its not a game, its life, and could mean death...if you don't get real...with it all!  Love God and HATE the world...it holds nothing for me!  be blessed! 

A picture...IS WORTH...???

They say a picture is worth...a THOUSAND...words!  I think that's true, but even more!  I love taking pictures of EVERthing around! Gods glory/ n beauty is everywhere, IF...we pay attention and look...around at it...STOP! And LOOK!  We walk right by so much!  We take for grantid...so much!  Lord, help me NOT to!  I don't want to see life...thru an ORDINARY LENS!  I want to see...extra...ordinary!  It goes by so fast, and we miss out on so much, if we don't like to bend over and smell a rose on the way!  Capture those moments! CLICK...another moment in time! Click...another one that will never be retrieved!  Think about it...LOOK AT IT...cause it won't be there like that, in a moment!  Take a picture or two for the memory!  (Or like me, a picture or a hundred of em!) LOL  IT IS...worth a hundred words unspoken, in moments of time, when we stop and capture...those times!  Don't hurry by today...LOOK...for that EXTRA ordinary piece of today...and SNAP it!  hugs!