Over on Facebook there are always quizzes and questionnaires asking you to list 3 or 4 or 25 random things about yourself. Sometimes you are required to give one word answers to random questions about yourself, which is actually much more difficult than it sounds. Since I'm in a "random" kind of mood today, this post will be completely random things about me.......in other words, whatever pops in my head as I'm trying to get myself going today. Some days that's harder than others, which brings me to my first random thought.
Cold weather and arthritis are NOT friends! The extreme cold on this mountaintop and my constant companion (arthritis) are making this a difficult morning for me.
More random thoughts......
My friend Joy and I both had broken ankles at the same time (my left, her right). If we only wore the same size shoes, we could have bought some really cute ones and shared the cost!
Three of my very best friends are named "Jean"!
I would really love to live closer to my children and my grandchildren. Not necessarily in the same city, although that would be wonderful, but not so far from each other as we are now.......4 hours drive from one son, 12 hours drive from the other. Wonder if that will ever happen??? Probably not.
The house we now live in is our 18th address......19th if you count the month we lived in a Residence Inn when we first moved to Minnesota. People often ask if we plan for this to be our last address and live here the rest of our days. For obvious reasons, I refuse to answer that question other than to say "who knows?" Well, as my father-in-law would say, God knows!
My absolute favorite meal (I told you this would be random!) is a perfectly cooked steak - preferably New York Strip or Filet Mignon -with a baked potato. Perfectly cooked means somewhere between medium rare and medium. With creme brulee for dessert. YUM! Too bad that's not on the menu today. Today's menu is more likely chicken quesadillas made with leftover chicken and reduced fat cheese!
The first time I played piano in church was for GA Focus Week when I was about 10 years old. I was so nervous that my legs were shaking so much that I couldn't even use the pedals!
We spent several days in Scotland (the land of my ancestors) in 2001, and in Switzerland (the land of my husband's ancestors) in 2003. I would love to visit both countries again and spend more time there. I would also love to visit Ireland. Not likely to happen any time soon, if ever, but it's on my travel wish list! I love to travel, to visit new places, try new foods. Maybe that's why Amazing Race is one of my favorite shows!
Enough randomness for today.......the dryer is buzzing. Duty calls!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Jean
My good friend Jean had some serious back surgery yesterday.....more than 9 hours in surgery. I wish I could have been there. Not that I could have done anything other than just "be there" and pray.......the praying part I was doing from this distance. But the "being there" just wasn't possible.
Brings to mind all the times she was "there" for me.....going with me to a CAT scan knowing how nervous I was about it, bringing me food when I had the flu and my husband was out of town, at the weddings of both my sons, all the special times we've shared......like when I kept crashing my wheel chair into the walls of her house when I visited during the "broken ankle" season. We've shared some really good times, and have hugged and cried together during some less good times. How thankful I am that God brought these two southern girls together in Minnesota more than 10 years ago!!
So, Jean, you are in my thoughts and my prayers today, as you so often are. Thank you - and thank God! - for the blessing you are to me. I'm looking forward to telling you this in person and hugging you again real soon!
Brings to mind all the times she was "there" for me.....going with me to a CAT scan knowing how nervous I was about it, bringing me food when I had the flu and my husband was out of town, at the weddings of both my sons, all the special times we've shared......like when I kept crashing my wheel chair into the walls of her house when I visited during the "broken ankle" season. We've shared some really good times, and have hugged and cried together during some less good times. How thankful I am that God brought these two southern girls together in Minnesota more than 10 years ago!!
So, Jean, you are in my thoughts and my prayers today, as you so often are. Thank you - and thank God! - for the blessing you are to me. I'm looking forward to telling you this in person and hugging you again real soon!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Reflections
I'm sitting here watching the fog roll in, surrounding our house so that I can barely see the trees just in front of the window. Fog tends to make me feel a little dreary, a little despondent......and that's easy to do these days, with all the economic gloom and doom, watching the stock market decline, wondering what will happen next and where we go from here. But as I reflect on that, I'm reminded of a line from a Robert Browning poem....."God's in his heaven, all's right with the world." And as I reflect on that thought, several Scriptures come to mind that lift my spirits considerably!
"Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. And it is He who changes the times and epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings." (Daniel 2:20-21)
"The Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind." (Daniel 4:17)
"His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, 'What hast Thou done'?" (Daniel 4:35)
"Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory and the One who lifts my head. I cried unto the Lord with my voice and He answered me from His holy mountain. I lay down and slept and awoke, for the Lord sustains me. I will not be afraid." (Psalm 3:3-4)
"I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord." (Psalm 27:13-14)
No matter what is going on in the world around us, God is in control. What an encouragement that is, especially on this very dreary day!
"Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. And it is He who changes the times and epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings." (Daniel 2:20-21)
"The Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind." (Daniel 4:17)
"His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, 'What hast Thou done'?" (Daniel 4:35)
"Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory and the One who lifts my head. I cried unto the Lord with my voice and He answered me from His holy mountain. I lay down and slept and awoke, for the Lord sustains me. I will not be afraid." (Psalm 3:3-4)
"I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord." (Psalm 27:13-14)
No matter what is going on in the world around us, God is in control. What an encouragement that is, especially on this very dreary day!
Monday, February 16, 2009
I Don't Get It!
I haven't written anything in a couple of weeks. I've been busy......visiting my son and his family, playing with my grandson, catching up with old friends. What a great couple of weeks!
It seems the Congress has been busy for the last couple of weeks, too......mortgaging the future of my children and my grandchildren! This did not start out to be a political blog, but as events of the last few weeks/months have unfolded, I am outraged! I make no claim to be an economic expert, but it seems to me that the way to stimulate an economy that is in the tank is to increase consumer confidence and therefore to increase consumer spending. I haven't heard anything in this so-called stimulus bill that accomplishes those goals. I'm hearing a lot about government spending.....spending money it doesn't have, by the way! And how can these Congressmen be so certain that this bill is the solution to our economic woes, when they haven't even read the bill they voted on??!!! I don't get it!
What happened to the new era of hope and change, the bipartisanship we were promised? Seems to me it's just more of the same old same old, politics as usual. Has anybody really stopped to consider what all this will actually cost us, and our children, and their children?
I heard Gov. Mike Huckabee describe this stimulus bill as the Congressional Relief Action Program. Check those initials and you'll have a good idea what he thinks of the bill......and I agree with him!
It seems the Congress has been busy for the last couple of weeks, too......mortgaging the future of my children and my grandchildren! This did not start out to be a political blog, but as events of the last few weeks/months have unfolded, I am outraged! I make no claim to be an economic expert, but it seems to me that the way to stimulate an economy that is in the tank is to increase consumer confidence and therefore to increase consumer spending. I haven't heard anything in this so-called stimulus bill that accomplishes those goals. I'm hearing a lot about government spending.....spending money it doesn't have, by the way! And how can these Congressmen be so certain that this bill is the solution to our economic woes, when they haven't even read the bill they voted on??!!! I don't get it!
What happened to the new era of hope and change, the bipartisanship we were promised? Seems to me it's just more of the same old same old, politics as usual. Has anybody really stopped to consider what all this will actually cost us, and our children, and their children?
I heard Gov. Mike Huckabee describe this stimulus bill as the Congressional Relief Action Program. Check those initials and you'll have a good idea what he thinks of the bill......and I agree with him!
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