Wednesday...

Shane’s surgery is over with, and it went well! A bit more involved than we had anticipated…but well none-the-less! Marvin’s latest job prospects fell through yesterday, and we are reminding ourselves continually, that God is still in control and there are better things in the future.

Today is my birthday…I am 51. I suppose that I should be in some sort of depression about that…but there are other, more pressing things in our lives at this moment than vanity. On my 30th birthday, I realized that age is a state of mind anyway…we are as old as we feel…and we feel as old as we want to feel. I don’t feel old…so there!

The sun is shining and a warm wind is blowing…just a brief glimpse of the long anticipated, changing of the seasonal guard….I am looking forward to summer with every part of me, but, as with most good things in life…we have to go through some crap to get there. The next few weeks will most likely be full of severe storms, tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, property damage and destruction, injury, and perhaps even loss of life. Welcome to Kansas!

Sugar is staying with us until Shane is healed a bit more….I let her outside at 1:11 this morning, and as I stood there looking out the deck doors at the pool, watching it’s grey vinyl cover rise and fall with the wind…almost as if it were breathing…it occurred to me how we are encouraged/discouraged by so many little things in life. On those warm, summer nights, when I look out across the yard, I see a glistening pool of blue…a thousand stars shimmer on the surface, bouncing points of light against the house and even the walls inside. I return to bed, contented, relaxed and anticipating the morning. In contrast…during the winter…that ugly grey cover simply punctuates the utter desolation of nature, inflicted on the landscape by the ravages of winter. On those nights…I return to bed feeling tense, cold, and dreading the morning to come…which holds only the promise of bone chilling winds, freezing temperatures, and dreary skies. What fickle creatures we are.

Be Well!