Aging gracefully?

You know, getting old is not fun. My mom has been through the Great Depression in the 1930s. She lived through WWII as an interpreter with the precursor to the CIA. She married a man who served during WWII in the Coast Guard. The Korean War, the Vietnam war, the wild and crazy 1960s, the era of disco, big hair, and Bill Clinton. And she is not aging gracefully. This past week she ran her sitter out of the house. She is probably bipolar, definitely wants to be on her own (which she can no longer), and when you first meet her is kind and genteel and you would never ever expect her to lash out on anyone. And it's no fun leaving your home to be in company of strangers and her adjustment was not smooth because life was so different from what she expected.My prayer is not only that she adjust but that I not have those issues for adjustment.

Patience

What does patience mean? what does it mean to have patience? What most Christians fail to realize is that patience doesn't just mean saying "That's OK dear". It's riding through the rough patches even without complaining about look at what happened to you today. We are in a trial and God repeatedly tells us just how important we are to Him that if we trust in Him He guides us over the rough patches.May God love us and hold us close always.

I found it!!!

One of the things that God has made me very good at is being a good hunter....I can find anything that is lost for a time. God is much much much better than me though. He finds and blesses lost souls with the opportunity to be His children through living His will. God is awesome, and such a gift. I am glad that the blessing that He gave me led me to Him, finding my Lord and Savior....may I never leave Him.

Here's to beginnings

So it's time to end an era. After 25 years in the federal government I am calling it quits and going to go it into the private sector. What will life hold? I have no clue but I have been told I am a failure and that is pushing me to work harder. When it's time to leave it's time to leave folks so hang in there.

Bumps in the road

Traffic delays, traffic accidents, falls, spills, electrical fires, forest fires, tornados, hurricanes....no wonder people get depressed over daily lives. The bumps in the road can sometimes be more than annoyance, they can downright be devastating. We ask why, what did we do to cause this... and then we forget this world is not our home...it's not even reality although we think it is. God's life is reality, our life with Him, that's reality....all those storms or rather the disastrous outcome of bumps in the road that was the result of the fall of Adam....and the presence of Satan....and the glory of God who sees us through in ways we can never imagine... May God bless us with bumps and paths over those bumps...