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Light in the Darkness Surrounded by Love with Hope for those in need.

Shirley

Shirley is the proud mother of two beautiful young ladies. She enjoys spending time with them on their ranch in the deep South with their three paint horses. Always looking for an adventure, she looks forward to hikes in the mountains chasing waterfalls, or scouring the coast for beautiful lighthouses! Shirley writes to encourage others and often times shares things that motivate and inspire her. She believes in living life to the fullest because no one is promised the gift of another day. Join her as we honor our bodies, minds, hearts, souls, and our Almighty Creator, God above!

10 Comments

  1. Jennifer Frisbie
    May 30, 2014 @ 12:07 am

    I love this quote: “When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something.” I am going to remember this. Loved reading your FMF!

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    • Shirley
      May 30, 2014 @ 7:37 am

      Thank you, Jennifer! So happy to have you visit with us!!

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  2. Gregory
    May 30, 2014 @ 1:31 am

    Nothing… quite the choice of words for this Friday. It is a word that can mean complete emptiness or be used to empathize in the extreme a certain situation that happens to you. I think I might be able to use it in both contexts.

    There is nothing that can compare to the feeling of helplessness you get while you sit holding your mother’s hand during the last few hours before she is taken into God’s hands. There is nothing that compares to the empty loneliness you feel because you are the only family member there for her and all you want to do is to run away to escape the pain you are feeling, but you have to dig deep into your soul for the strength that God gave you because in the end there is nothing more important than you being there for her at this time. As you sit with her watching the minutes that seem to take hours to pass, you feel nothing inside your heart as there seems to be a great empty void of helplessness growing inside because you so want to be able to do something for her and you can’t.

    I see my five minutes are up.

    ~The Quiet Computer Guy

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    • Shirley
      May 30, 2014 @ 7:38 am

      I’m so sorry you ever had to go through that, sweetie. I can relate in a way as we were there with my grandma in her final hours. My heart and prayers are with you.

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  3. Ruth
    May 30, 2014 @ 1:58 am

    Hi there! Visiting with the #fmfparty today, and appreciate your words. We feel we have nothing, or even are nothing… but we give God everything – all of it/us – and he accepts us as precious. It really is more about offering ourselves as we are than drumming up some superstar offering to impress him. Thanks for your words today.

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    • Shirley
      May 30, 2014 @ 7:39 am

      Thank you for what you said, Ruth, and for visiting with us! We love seeing the FMF crew reaching out!

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  4. Karen Brown
    May 30, 2014 @ 8:49 am

    Ahhh. your words were a perfect reminder for me tonight and a balm for my frazzled soul. These words: “That’s when it happens. God takes it all.”
    I love the thought that God waits until we realize that we have nothing without Him- then he does the work of taking our nothing and replacing it with His everything. Great job with this post! Happy Friday! #FMF

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    • Shirley
      May 30, 2014 @ 12:45 pm

      Thank you so much, Karen! I appreciate all that you said!

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  5. Melissa
    May 30, 2014 @ 10:37 am

    Amen. God is always at work in our lives, even when we can’t see it. He makes our brokenness into something beautiful … maybe not what we expect or even what we think we want … but something beautiful, nonetheless.

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    • Shirley
      May 30, 2014 @ 12:39 pm

      This is so very true, Melissa. Just recently I posted an article entitled You’re Not Broken, You’re Beautiful. It relays a similar message to people that feel they’re broken by what they’ve been through in life. Between that and what is written in this article, it is my hope that they will touch people’s hearts.

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