I didn’t get to bed until after one this morning and I was up at 7:30. I took time to take in the beauty of the changing leaves in our yard in the early morning light with a bit of fog in the background. Awesome! Then I proceeded to spend the day finishing several hats that were partially done. It took me all morning to knit 17 rows of the crown of the Faux Isle Hat seen here – in between whatever else sidetracked me! I was in the midst of doing this when a weird thing happened. I’ve had the middle fingers on both hands tingle and get numb from time to time when something got pinched. This time, however, it was the fourth finger on the right hand. I didn’t think too much of it at first, except that it had never done it before. Next thing I knew that finger was white, including the fingernail. I got up and did some stretching exercises and I guess I relieved whatever was pinched because it soon got back to the normal color and the tingling and numbness stopped. YIKES!
Somewhere along the way I decided to fix a bowl of cheesy grits with a fried egg. I hit the egg on the counter to crack it and next thing I knew the raw egg was on the countertop instead of in the frying in the pan. Oops! I got the egg into the pan where it belonged and continued fixing my lunch. HA Bill came home from his trip to Key Center with the news that the Peninsula Market was broken into last night. The burglars picked up a steel plate from out front of the store and threw it through the lower part of the glass door. They were most likely kids as it appears they were stealing cigarettes and maybe booze. The store owner arrived while they were still inside the store but before they could be caught they made it out the back fire door and ran off into the woods behind the store.
I finally talked with Deanna’s husband about four this afternoon. She is home and they have her hooked up to a bag to drain off the fluid. She’ll have that for another week. I’ll check back there tomorrow afternoon when I get home from my doings. Barbara’s trip to the dentist resulted in good news. She was afraid she had a cavity and the heart doctor had already said she couldn’t have any dental work. He said she had some areas where the enamel had worn down but no cavities. Thank goodness for that! The word on her son Craig is pancreatitis or colitis. They started him on antibiotics and he is feeling better already. I don’t know if this is just some sort of flare up or something that will require treatment. I guess we’ll find out in due time.
I left for church just before six. I found Wendy knitting away out in the foyer and I joined her until Jo came to rehearse the song she is singing on Sunday. After we went through her song, I rejoined Wendy and found Wava knitting on a pair of mittens. We continued until seven and then went into the sanctuary for rehearsal. I was happy to learn that TK is having a second interview tomorrow but it is with an insurance company and nothing to do with computers which have been his “thing” all these years.
Now I have time for one “House” episode before I end the day.
One reason we suffer is so that we can give thanks. Right in the middle of the biggest mess we've ever been in, the Lord wants us to thank Him for that mess! Why? Because if we are allowing Him to comfort us... if we are truly trusting Him... we will understand that our trials - no matter what - are an opportunity to learn more about Him… to grow closer to Him… to have that deep, warm, intimate and personal relationship with Him that He wants us to have. He wants us to be grateful to Him for all things - great or small, good or bad, no matter what.
And when we give thanks, we should do it in a true spirit of gratitude, not grudgingly. Not, "Gee, thanks a lot, Lord." in the semi-sarcastic attitude of a petulant child who stamps his foot a few seconds later and leaves the room. Rather we need to be truly grateful for all things, no matter what they are, knowing within our hearts that our Lord is allowing those things in our lives to help us learn and grow closer to Him.
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Hi Diane. Was finally able to get out cyberwalking again and wanted to check on you and see what you were up to ... 
Hi Carol, I get a "lump in my chest" reading your thoughts that you share .. thanks for reminding us how life is a 
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