so I am amazed at peoples ability to blog...Me I find no time. However, as many of my friends seem to be on here...

I have had the most difficult time trying to figure out the schematics of this thing...How the crap do you post pictures..

Oh that button at the top that said "add picture" . It would help if I read directions.

But for those that know me ... yeah right!

Alternative Medicine...God designed the body to heal itself.

I LOVE my Chiropractor. I have never felt so healthy as I have since I started going to him. But each time I have to laugh. I know it all works and that everything is connected. But I still am laughing each time I leave.

Last week when I went in, I mentioned that I get terrible ear aches in my right ear when I run outdoors. I can run on the treadmill inside and do not have this happen. I have tried earmuffs, hats, etc all to no avail. The ear aches I get are so bad that I double over in pain. I also experienced this in the same ear when I flew to FL last week.

So in preparation for the monument 10K I am going to be running, I figured I had nothing to lose to have him check it out.

The funny part, The first place he adjust is the bottoms of my feet. I started laughing and said Dr. J, I find it amusing that I mention my ear and you start at my feet. While I know it helps I still find it comical. Needless to say he did not stop there. He biofreezed my jaw and started "clicking" my jaw. All he said was "remember you asked for this". Again I walked out a little sore but have never felt better.

My Chiropractor, preventive medicine and my health care reform, in addition to no sugar, wheat, pork and very limited dairy. :)

Funny

As you all can see I am never on here. It is much easier to create quick post on facebook to let everyone know what is going on and where I am. No need to worry about run on sentences, poor spelling or correct grammar. Call me lazy but after working all day, proper grammar is the last thing on my mind.

To update the best is to say our life has been a whirlwind. It has been great but, well to say the least crazy. The holidays found us opening our family presents for Hanukkah, well at least the big ones, then heading up to York, PA to see Chris' family, and heading back home the next day. Then we had the rest of our Christmas at 7 PM Christmas day when we arrived home. Then 2 days later we were heading to Harrisonburg to see my family. Then back at work that Monday. The following Monday found The kids and I flying to Orlando FL for 8 days while Abigail competed at AMTC.

AMTC, Actors, Models, and Talent for Christ. What an adventure. It was a tiring trip which included getting to bed after midnight each night and up by 6 am for meetings and competitions. Abigail did great. I was exhausted and trying to keep everything moving. In a nutshell Abigail got to meet over 18 casting directors, agents, and managers. We got to drop off head shots and comp cards. Now we take the information we learned and work our local market and wait, wait wait.

Upon return home, I am slammed with the business books, taxes, and a messy house.

That is the update from Christmas to now.

Nothing witty, cute or whimsical...just fun everyday life.

Aug 31st...Happy Birthday!

My Husband turned 40 today. What a day. I was busy preparing a day to bless him and invite his friends. The kids, Abi and Matt, were excited too. They were busy helping decorate. Finally the planning came together. We had a great day. Chris was blessed and loved seeing his friends. It was nice to get our friends and family together that we know but do not know each other, brings things into perspective.

I am blessed each day to have my family. Who else puts up with my "bad Hair days" and allows me the grace to mess up and to change. They truly see me at my lowest and highest. As I journey with my friends and family and let my "true" feelings show, I become more and more healed.

God is gracious to bring people into my life to reveal all the unhealed areas. Then I have the choice..let The Father minister to that need or become hardened. I am thankful for each day.
I am thankful for each wound, trail, misunderstanding, healing. I am thankful to Him who will use life's mis steps, mishaps, to bring His goodness and Love. When I submit to what He is doing, all things are used for good. Even the most preposterous, hurtful things, can be redeemed. HE is the GOD of Restoration. I believe in restoration, I am a restorer, my husband is a restorer, hence our company name Dry Bones Restorations. Breathing life to Dry Bones, things once dead, having new life, being fulling restored, not torn down and modernized, but restored.

God has promised me that if I join Him in what He is doing, That things will not only be healed, but better than they were before. Yeah!! I want some of that.

Father's Embrace

I had recently been in a difficult meeting. During the meeting my heart was hurt. Some days later my friends came to me, who were also at the meeting , to affirm their commitment to me, and to speak good things to me. We were driving in the car (and this lasted about 2 minutes). Well, those two minutes were very difficult for me. I was in my heart, saying move on to the next person, don't focus on me, what do I do, how can I get away....While this may sound weird I realized that I would have been more comfortable with correction, than edifying. Why? That was my question to the Father. I came to realize that although I thought I had dealt with my issues of being able to receive from people, (my orphan issues from my woundings) I was not at home in love. I came to realize that to receive criticism was more the norm for my life. To hear good things was a rarity. So I had closed off my heart to receiving, mainly because everything came at a price, so it was better to do myself, than to have the perpetual string attached that was pulled later at a convenient time. So I invite the Father in to that unhealed area. He is faithful. I also realize that much like the older brother in the prodigal father story, I too am not at "home" in love, or my Father's house. So this week has been a week of allowing pent up emotion to start to surface, my poor family, there will be much repenting this week!! I have been on the verge of anger or tears, wow, the Father is starting to break through. So I welcome the rain. I welcome the flood that tears down all structures. "Let it Rain!" "Because it is living water I desire" "Can't you hear my heart it is crying....Rain Down!!!"
I am learning to be a daughter. I have been working my whole life for words of affirmation and hopefully approval....They do not come.....So I give up, because it is not about what I do, but about who I am...Who He says I am.....And I am His Beloved.

For those that find me here. I am not a blogger...not enough time. You can best catch me on myspace or facebook.

myspace.com/melaniespahr
or on facebook not sure how you find me, but type in my name and ill come up.

Mel "Eowyn"