Hollering Out A Hello

Well, I just wanted to swing by here and holler out a hello to anybody who might be reading this.
I have been very busy trying to make Christmas gifts and things to sell to buy gifts that cannot be made. (Or that I cannot make. Obviously someone could or they wouldn't exist.)
Still, I think that it is important to make some sort of effort since I am trying to do this blog thing.
I'm having a wonderful, terrible life as usual. God is blessing me and encouraging me, but my flesh keeps wanting to do stuff that doesn't make a bit of sense.
I've stayed up until about 4a.m. three days this week. Which means that I don't get up early, which puts me behind on everything I have to do. Which means that some people get slighted and have do without something they need from me.
Ah, well. His grace is sufficient, thank God. If God threw people away for idiocy, I would have been in trouble a long time ago. Still, I mean to do better.
I'm sure that when God is through with me, he'll be able to let me in heaven without me ruining it for everybody else. :)

Doing Nothing

It's funny the things in life that we want to say, do and be, but never seem to be able to accomplish. We convince ourselves that we are going to get around to them. But we do not.
I was reading a bit of a book called "Released to Reign" recently by Charles Trombley. In it, he spoke of the original sin of Adam. He said, (and I may not be quoting this verbatim) "Adam's sin was doing nothing when his authority was challenged".
There is also an old saying, and I do not know the source of this quote, but I have heard it over the years, many times. "Not choosing is a choice."
I think some of the greatest sadnesses in life are the roads not taken. The life not lived. The words unspoken, that should have been. The times we should have withstood evil and we didn't.
Perhaps this is part of the lesson God has put us here to learn. That we are not sufficient in ourselves. We need him and one another. We need to encourage one another--provoke one another, if necessary--to good works.
Let us not be guilty of "doing nothing" when God has given us every opportunity to do something. Let us not choose to drift along toward a future of nothing but regrets.
So, we can't do everything in life. Let us, my brethren, make certain that we do the most important things.

Me, Again

So. Here I am again.
Just wanting to say something wonderfully fantastic and original.
Isn't that what everybody wants to do?
Do, say, be something more?
But I am just me, again.

The funny thing is that the harder I try to be special,
The more I lose that air of originality.
The more I try to conform to somebody else's idea
Of what I should be, the more I lose who I am.

So. Here I am again.
Saying all of the same things that so many people have said
Down through the ages and doing
Many of the same things, too.
"There is nothing new under the sun..."

And I am just me, again.

Welcome To My World

Hello folks!
Just wanted to start this blog with a greeting to let you know a bit about me.
I'm Bethany Carr.
I want everybody to be happy all the time. I want all people to love everybody else and for things to always be beautiful and good.
I realize that in the regular world this won't always be the case. But I long to see God's kingdom come in the earth--a kingdom where his love reigns.
I guess what I am is an ordinary visionary, understanding that "we have this treasure in earthen vessels". I hope we'll all be perfect, even while I know we probably won't be.
So I like to dwell on the good things and deal mercifully with those who are less than they should be (myself included).
I'd like to tell you that this blog is always going to be spectacular and wonderful. I can't promise that. But what I can promise you is this. In my world, we always try to love one another.