Weather, Age, Life!

The weather outside is wet and cold. I love the cold weather and I dont mind rain if I can stay inside. However, the last couple of days have been about 48 degrees and misty rain.

I dont remember that bothering me so bad last year and the year before that. I dont remember if it really got that cold last year. I dont remember if when I was 30 and living in the Panhandle of Texas if it really bothered me.

I do remember my first house. Nice small three bedroom house in Amarillo, Texas. Nothing between there and the north pole except a barb wire fence and most of the strands were down on that. Well, we moved in in about November and all was well. Newly married and life was good.

Then came January. The temperature in the month of January never got above freezing. The house was heated by a floor furnace in the living room. No other heat in the house as I remember. (I have already established that my memory is not too good!) You could stand on the floor furnace in bare feet and not burn your feet.

The house became miserably cold. We would come home from work - turn on the kitchen stove as high as it would go and cook some supper. As soon as the meal was over - and the house was still freezing, the only way to keep warm was to run to the bedroom and jump under the electric blanket and watch tv the rest of the evening.

Did I say we were newly weds?

My thoughts for now~

Working All Day - Just to Make a Living?

Ronnie Milsap says it best in his song:

Well all day long while I'm working in town
Time slows down to a crawl
hen I'm not thinking about you
I'm checking the clock on the wall
Then it's goodbye factory and hello loving
here's a smile across my face
Cause I'm back in the arms of your sweet love
Where my thoughts have been all day.


Well, here it is at the end of the day and yes I am back at home in my sweet wife's arms. The only difference in the song is that some days we are wishing our lives away.

I wish it were Friday!
I wish it were Thanksgiving!
I wish I could retire!

The real truth is I wish I could quit wishing away my life and just look forward to right now!

The evenings truly are the joyous part of the life even though - it is more being at home in the comfort of my sweet loves presence and just enjoying the fact that we are here together.

Life is better than we think it is! If we would just quit wishing it away and try to enjoy it.

But after days like today, that is a little difficult

My thoughts for now!

Monday and Divine Appointments

We never know what each day will bring us. It often would seem that each day, especially Monday is predicated on what is leftover from Friday. Many times Friday was hectic and things that should have gotten done never got touched.

Well, this could always be the case and we could let the fact that we have those leftovers give us an attitude of dread for Monday. But the truth of the matter is that I believe the things that the day brings is predicated more on our attitudes. If I start with a dread of Monday and with the expectations of issues of the things left over from Friday, then I find that Monday is usually a tough day.

However, if I simply thank God for the fact that I have opportunities on Monday to take care of those issues and realize that there are divine appointments each and everyday that are given to me, then Monday is not such a bad day.

The attitude must be "thank you Lord for today." "Help me to recognize those divine appointments that you give me and help me make each and everyone I come in contact have a realization of you, because they see you in me!"

My thoughts for now!