No pictures today, just some thoughts.
Today brother Dave turned 70. Sister Joan turned 70 two years ago. Sister Helen will turn 64 this year and me--I am 67. Time marches on. June 25 would have been our parents 79 anniversary. If brother Ronald, Red by some and real name Lawrence, were living he would be 78 and if sister Janet were living she would be 76 I think! During the last many many years Ronald died, Janet died, Mom died, Dad died, Gail died and Roxanne died. So here we (family that is living) are living, breathing, loving, having fun, meeting challenges, and many many more things. Some of us have had challenges like Joan's Ron, Dave, Helen and more. What is one to make of life. Today at church the pastor talked about God's grace in forgiving the past and putting our energy and thoughts into now and the future. Where am I going, I am not sure except that time takes its toll on us. We need to cherish each hour, each day and each week. For me I am thankful for each hour of each day. I try my best to live each day for our Lord and for his glory. I am thankful for sister Joan, brother Dave and sister Helen.
I continue to work on wood projects and work around a swollen left hand. Terry is working hard on the rooms upstairs and we are looking forward to camping with Aaron and Amy and then off to Alaska. We are so so so thankful for the time and means to travel to Alaska. The time we spend together traveling in our tiny camp is some of the best time of my life. Thank you Lord.
Here we are at July and the months is Dave's. An outstanding father, dad, woodworker and a man of God he had it all. We miss him.
We all really do have so much to be thankful for. Yes, we've all been through some rough patches in our lives but that is living. I've always believed that God doesn't give us more than we can handle. We all deal with adversity in our own way and we seem to have come out okay! When I'm down and maybe having a pity party I always think of someone else that has dealt with a lot more and come out with a positive attitude and a smile on their face and my pity party is immediately gone and I'm thankful for what I have and deal with it. I miss Mike every day but as they say "life is for the living" and I know he'd want me to be living and doing the things I'm doing. Our family is so very blessed with beautiful babies and our health and our being physically able to do things and go places that I have a hard time having regrets of any kind. We all need to enjoy every hour of every day until there is no more. Then our families will deal with every hour of every day as life goes on. I'm so happy that you and Terry are doing the things you're doing and living life to the fullest. After all that is what it is all about! Enjoy every minute of every day and be thankful for it.
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