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Do you ever feel like screaming?

7/23/2011

Hello everyone I have been thinking over the last few days about blogging and what I wanted to blog about. I have tons of extremely funny things to talk about or at least things I find funny. However I am a regular person just like everyone else. This means that sometimes I am sad, happy, scared, depressed, silly and more. I try to be that person who looks at life like the glass is half full but sometimes the damn glass is almost empty.

Today I had a very interesting conversation with my friends Kristina and Nichol about how I sometimes feel like a bad mom. I feel like I can’t buy the things for my children like they need. I have 4 kids and that can get really expensive and clothes cost tons. Now for starters let me tell you that I am a bargain shopper. I don’t mind yard sales and hand me down but let’s face it with six people to buy for money can get extremely tight. Plus we have always been the type to lend a helping hand, for instance some goods friends of ours were in a bad situation and needed a place to stay so we let them move in for a while. Now we have 9 people living here, and Kristina and her son come over all the time because we love hanging out together and we have a blast however that makes 11. THEN to top it off our friends who are staying with us are babysitting 2 little girls on a daily basis for about 8 hours. This means that on any given day we are making and preparing food for 13 people. We are used to barbecues, family get together and birthday parties where we cook for lots of people but not on a daily basis. This means that by the end of the day I tend to get a little stressed out. Most of the time I can handle it all pretty well and laid back about it but there are some days when I come home and I want to hide in my room all alone and just have 3 minutes of ALONE TIME.

Anyway with all of my craziness lately I have really noticed a difference in my life, body, and mind. I don’t feel like I have time to focus on what matters not that I can sort through everything to know what really matters. I am constantly late to work and I am afraid I will get fired which will not help the situation. I have gained weight and I am constantly tired. I am confused with what to do. I think a lot about my sacred place but I can’t always find my sacred place. I admire all these women that I have been reading their post and their sacred places and I envy them for that. Tomorrow is craft day with the kids and more working on the website to get it up by September 1st. I am looking forward to that. I hope you all have a fabulous night.

Lots of love!

*Amanda*

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My Sacred Place by Kristina

7/22/2011

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We have been doing a series of posts where we ask our guest bloggers to tell us about their sacred places. It is my turn to share with you about mine.

In order to tell you about it, I have to start a bit farther back in my spiritual journey.

I grew up LDS.* I am not a member of the church anymore, but it serves as a very important part in the development of who I am. Growing up, the places that were holy, and required reverence were many. Churches, Sunday dinner, family occasions, and many more. The places that were sacred, were not nearly as common. The Temple is sacred.

The Salt Lake City, Utah Temple, courtesy of LDS.org

There are 144 LDS Temples throughout the world. These are sacred places that members of the church go to, regularly if possible, or as a pilgrimage much like Muslims going to Mecca. These buildings are breathtakingly beautiful, and painstakingly built to exacting specifications, to represent the highest craftsmanship and honor of the LDS church. It is a privilege to go into these temples, and a reverence of the highest degree is expected when you enter.
Upon leaving the LDS church, and finding a new path in the world, I found myself lacking in places that felt sacred to me.

But then I began to understand sacred to mean something totally different. Where before, sacred meant something I could rarely experience, and only in a specific place, I now know that I can find sacredness anyplace, at any time if I will only allow myself.

Sacred was a feeling of quiet reflection, lack of outside interference, and beautiful, rarely seen surroundings. Sacred now is a feeling of love, happiness, peace, and a fullness in my heart. The moments when I look at those I love are the most sacred ones to me. The feelings that wash over me when I hold my son, or when I see my best friend's beautiful baby twins learning to stand and walk. It is also the feeling of my breath being pulled from me, as if by the moon and the tides, when I look at the ocean.

The smell of my son when he is fresh out of the bath.

The look of laughter when we finally say UNCLE to a tickle fight!

The look of happy delirium and amazement on her face when her twins arrived safely.

The joy of a day spent with my siblings

The sweetness of my brand new baby boy

The wonder of watching the twins grow bigger every day

An afternoon with my books and something delicious to drink

The Ocean that takes my breath away

Just as these pictures were hard for me to pick from the hundreds I have saved, it is hard for me to pick out the moments in my life that are sacred. Because there are so many. The feeling of sacredness, now, is a moment when I stop and step outside of what is ordinary, and experience the fullness of a moment. The fullness of my life. When I look at those people and things that I love, and simply allow myself to feel that love. That is my sacred place!

* I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone who is LDS, or to the LDS church. There are many wonderful things about the LDS religion, and many wonderful people who belong to it. It simply isn't for me. My personal experiences do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or intents of the LDS church as a whole. They simply represent my experience with it.

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