Here Goes!

Six weeks ago my dear friend Becky coerced some of her friends (me included) into starting a
blog. She thought we might have something pertinent to share with others. So here I am down to the wire with the deadline being tomorrow.
Why Box of Chocolates? Because as all Forrest Gump fans know "you never know what you're gonna get" That's what this blog will be like, just random stuff. Sooo, here goes:
My husband came home the other night with a handout from our pastor and it has really had
me evaluating how I have been living and what I have been doing, or not. I believe it is an exerpt from a book by Mark Batterson (lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C.) called "In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars" Anyway the part that has been hitting me in the head is this:
Your biggest regret at the end of your life won't be the things you did that you wish you hadn't. Your biggest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had.
As all my friends know I like things organized and planned. Unfortunately what can be good things has also at times been a hinderance to me. I have regrets of things not done with or for my children that would have been so good if I would have just been able to "fly by the seat of my pants." I know I have let go of some, but I have not arrived. Odd that this would be my first post, at the onset of my coercing my blog ideas were to be about my organizing skills. So until next time: Live Out Loud
donna