TGIF

Today has been a really bad, horrible, no good, rotten day! Went into work where the work I like - the people are ok - the atmosphere is NUTS - and got told that it was my last day.

Don't really feel like talking but wanted to ask for prayers.

More later.


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Happy Birthday Shari

It is amazing what wonderful re-connections Facebook allows us to make. Over the last year or so I have re-connected with many people from my school days but none so closely as with my dear friend Shari who celebrates her birthday today.

We had lost track of one another after Gar-Field and through Facebook found that we live within 30 minutes of each other and have girls with much the same interests. Kim - Shari's daughter - is older than Ruth but younger than Nikki. Ruth and Kim get along great and share many interests which means Shari, Brent and I get to spend time together. In fact they allowed me to spend Christmas day with them while Ruth was out of state at her father's.

Shari is an amazingly sweet lady - just as I remember from school - who spends her days teaching in a small rural County Middle School just the other side of the mountains from Roanoke. Today she is at work teaching our future but I pray that she has a day filled with good wishes and moments of surprise and happiness such as benefits the birthday of such a special person.

So... in honor of this day Shari -

May God bless you just as you have blessed the lives of so many around you,

May He fill your day with warmth and laughter and your evening with the comfort and love of your family,

May He shine His face upon you this coming year with mercy and grace - and may you always know that you are loved!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FRIEND!

Proverbs 23 - New King James Version - BibleGateway.com

I'm reading a chapter Proverbs a day. Today's chapter is
Proverbs 23 - Passage Lookup - New King James Version - BibleGateway.com:
I've chosen these verses to concentrate on as the day goes by...

"v4 Do not overwork to be rich;
Because of your own understanding, cease!
v5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven."

What a good reminder that things of this world, which we all struggle so hard to have, are fleeting! I really must remember to spend my time at home with Ruth WITH RUTH and really put my drive time to better use like I did when I commuted to DC every day... Driving is such a great place for talking with God!!

Hope you all have a blessed and safe Tuesday and that the sun is shining on you where ever you are!

Well Begun...

...might be but half done, but 'tis a BIG half!! Now that I've found an iPhone app updating could become as addictive as Facebook and Twitter!


Here is a picture of my dear eldest daughter Nicole Kathleen sending out love at valentine's day.

Below is a picture of Ruth, rather upset with me because of my refusal to save a picture that looked more like a FBI most wanted poster than her showing of her new style.



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Finding Lamentation's End

Come and wander with me a bit

Down through the mountains

of God's glory

and along the pathways

of His blessings

and together we will find

Lamentation's End.

So reads the quote box on my Facebook page... Seems we are all searching for Lamentation's End with out ever really finding it - at least not permanently. So I invite you all - whomever may want - to wander with me a bit through my day and my mind. Perhaps we won't find Lamentation's End but hopefully we will find joy in the moments and peace in the journey.