Shout Out To Fun & Frugal

Hey everyone, I'm doing a quick shout out to FunandFrugal.com. Its a great resource if you are living in Cleveland, TN. She'll guide you to this weeks deals, and show you how to take full advantage of coupons & local resources! Right now they are doing a giveaway for the Tennessee Aquarium. (Which is a blast by the way.) So check it out at funandfrugal.com!

Quotes (Think about it)

Instead of delving deep into the caves of emotions, struggles, thoughts, discernments, hurts & philosophies of my own soul, I decided to search for quotes on subjects I was already thinking and then respond to them. Enjoy.

MELANCHOLY
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France

I am a melancholic soul. I agree that more times than not when you go through changes you go through a melancholic stage. Even when it is a change you want and love, it is still hard to move on from the past

LONG LOST LOVE
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamochi

I searched for quotes about lost long love and this is what showed up. It reminds me of the song from "Sleeping Beauty", when Aurora is singing about the Prince in her dreams. Though I am blessed to be married to my love, had I not met him I would have preferred to stay with the love in my dreams than to settle with someone less.

LONG LOST LOVE
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton, I believe, was a romantic at heart. Not the kind that gushes or sings love songs, but the type of romantic that saw the world in a way no one else did. When we forget that the ones we love could be gone in a moment, or when we begin to believe that we deserve their love we lose the trueness of love.

GEORGE MACDONALD'S INSIGHT ON LIFE
“Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel."
George MacDonald

First off, I do not think MacDonald was not talking about being saved by deeds, so don't get up in arms about this quote. This is a fine reminder for those of us who tend to live by their emotions. For myself, I tend to live by what I think or feel, while my actions lay dormant; the laziness consuming my existence & squelching any fire of a life well lived. I find myself constantly discontent, but it is not so much that I am discontent about what I am doing it is that I am discontent because of my lack of doing. When I am living life, and truly doing things, completely selflessly, only for the benefit of others, it doesn't matter what I do, I am at peace or at least more so than I am now.

HISTORY
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”
Robert Fulghum quotes

It is a beautiful reality, that the end of the day this quote is true. It may not come to pass in this life, but in the next I tend to follow the ideas of MacDonald, or Lewis, that the next life is a beautiful state of being in the fullness of the glimpses of beauty we have received here.

GEORGE MACDONALD'S INSIGHT ON LIFE
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald

Only recently have I begun to realize that I may die one day. I know it may be silly, but I never thought I would grow up. (I intend to write a blog dedicated to this dilemma in the future.) I still hope that Jesus will just come back and whisk us away to heaven. But what if that doesn't happen in my lifetime? What I just die? Well I hope and pray for the faith of the romantics of our faith. They had no fears of death, nor did they desire it like some, but instead the had a calm view of it. Just like the rising and setting of the sun.

Fun & Frugal

So I am just doing a quick little blog about this awesome website Fun & Frugal. It's based here in Cleveland and this woman lets us know about local deals & coupons, and even has contest from time to time. Its nice having this resource for our area, since it saves us time when we are wanting to save money. If you are in the Cleveland area you should check it out funandfrugal.com right now she is having a contest for Dollywood tickets!