SNAKES

                                                            Snakes!Snakes!Snakes!

When we think of snakes,numerous pictures slithers through our minds. Images of pet snakes,poisonous snakes,big snakes,little snakes,dangerous snakes, and snakes that can kill.
Oh, the list can be endless.
                         "THE ONLY GOOD SNAKE IS A DEAD SNAKE"
                                                 "A quote I love"
                         There was even a snake in a garden that God cursed.....and HE said his head would be crushed and he would slither on his stomach forever..We can see how powerful God is, that is exactly what snakes do,slither,and for the most part we crush their heads to make sure they are dead and can't come back to bite us!

"SNAKE MODE" Has this term ever slithered  your way?..Humm, probably not.
 Well, we all have  SNAKE MODES at different times in our lives..But I guess I've never heard terminology given to this brain  attribute before...But I am glad I have now, because I can identify it when I see it.Just like identifying these creatures that most people hate.SNAKES!
What exactly is SNAKE MODE?Let me take you back, then we'll move forward and hopefully it will click or should I say strike accord with you and make more since .
Let me just begin by saying, it has to do with how the brain reacts in situations.I know,if your like me your saying to yourself ,humm, interesting.
The brain has always been mind intriguing to me. At a given opportunity to learn about the brain,I am all ears..not brains, but ears...
I was recently engrossed in a presentation  given about the pathways of the brain. It was given by two school administrators who had attended a workshop on the subject of  the brain . The training they attended was on how the brain responds in given situations.They wanted to know why  kids respond differently in a school learning environment.
Did you know that when the brain is given a negative comment,such as" your ugly",it takes something positive said 21 times for the brain to change it's reasoning.
Well, I'm a little off subject of, Snake Mode,but this too has to do with the brain...
      We have a "Snake mode".
If you walked out your door and look only to see a snake coiled up in front of you,you go into   Snake Mode.Your anxiety raises to new levels.You get a rush of adrenalin,then you react,either by running away or you choosing to take that enemy straight on.Either way you are not at your normal or calm state of being.
If you ever find yourself  in SNAKE MODE,your not focused on things that are happening around you.You can only think about the snake, or the turmoil, that is affecting your life.
Let just say if a child is involved in difficult situation,his anxiety level rises,he gets nervous,maybe even a little sweaty.At the same time a teacher is reading a story.The child can't focused on the story,he is still in SNAKE MODE,the turmoil, that is where his thoughts are. He hears very little or no part of the story.
We'll there are many times I find myself in Snake Mode.. and I think we all do..

My conclusion is....I know, how difficult it is for me to function at my best capacity when I am in Snake Mode,so it has to be just as, or even more difficult for a child to sit in a class room when there is all kinds of snakes in their lives and function to the best of their ability...

  My prayer is that God will crush the  heads of the snakes that take on kids every day so they can find joy and laughter and just enjoy being kids...because they have the rest of their lives to be adults and and take on snakes........

MOVIES and BOOKS

 I was snuggled beneath my throw,lying in my favorite spot on the sofa watching movies on a Saturday evening,and these movies were some of my favorite!.I don't really watch T.V. much,but I do have my favorites. When Paul works on Saturday I use to clean house on Fridays so I could watch  chick flicks on Saturday.
                              Some of my all time favorite's are:
Sweet Home Alabama,Shaw shank Redemption,Remember the Titian's,Blind Side,Radio,A Walk to Remember,The Notebook,Finding Forest,Pay it Forward.
                               and there are many ...
I guess, for the most part movies that touch my emotions in some way are my favorite.I guess most people are like that especially females.I 'm not much on vampire movies are Harry Potter movies all though I have watched some.
Movies just like books are written to touch our emotions in some way.Some movies seem to entice people to do evil things.So maybe there is a connections between the movie and the brain that make people react differently.Movies and books takes us places sometimes we'll never go.They give us experiences maybe we'll never have,sometimes even feeling we would love to feel.
                 I love a good book and I love a good movie......
                    I love a story and everyone has one.....
                       and that 's what movies and books are....
                                       someones story.......

PLATES

THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN SPINNING TO MANY PLATES!
WHICH TO KEEP SPINNING,WHICH TO LET FALL!

Today

A GRAIN OF SAND

We are counted, in comparison, as a grain of sand by God.It's one of those thoughts that make you think,"hummm.""A grain of sand"

For the most part when we talk about sand it brings to mind  a lot of things.Its may tag itself to memories, vacations spent on beautiful white beaches,sand boxes or piles as a child.Always sweeping up sand.White Sands NEW MEXICO..Vacuuming out sand from your car.Sand storms,mouths of sand..Hour glasses,sands of time...Sand castles....,but today as I ponder over a word that the meaning  can take on such a depth of so many things,I think of God's use of the word,:you are numbered as sand... 

I am but but one grain of sand in this universe,one..

As I visited an auction this week end and toured through a very beautiful home in East Dallas that once belong to a Dallas Mayor of long ago...I was shaken into the reality of life as I once was as I walked through a home where an estate sale was being conducted.

It brought to my insight the reality of life.We are but a gain of sand and our lives are but a vapor.As I wowed over the beautiful things that once belong to someone who treasured these items and they were a very part of their lives in which made this house into  a home an ery feeling came upon me."This is what happens when a persons life is over.Someone comes behind you an sells the things that made your house a home,things that could identify what kind of person you were.Things,but things that speak volumes. You realize your things only hold sentimental value to you.Oh sometimes there will be some one who will cling to one or two things for valued memories,but who's to say the next generation will. Even though we know we can't take it with us,we really don't think about what will happens to it once we are gone unless you visit an estate sale.

Who are we really in this world,WE ARE BUT A GRAIN OF SAND.It takes one grain of sand to make a beautiful pearl.The pearl is harvested,taken to market,sold for a great price,then handed down from generation to generation,because it has great monetary value,but what about the things that have just sentimental value that are auction off or sold to the best offer.We are a grain of sand among sand and when we are gone there will still be gains of sand...Who will even notice that we are gone?Then I think and have to remember, I am not of this world,and when I am gone the world will go on,my memory will soon leave the minds of most then eventually all,but God said," I count you as Grains of Sands."