Sunday thoughts

It was a little too much to expect all of us to get ourselves together for church this morning, but I knew I had to do whatever it took to get myself there. I showered and got dressed and drove over. I sat next to our children's day care provider, Terry, who is such a wonderful person and huge support for us.

As I'm sure I speak for a lot of church-goers, I often struggle to get a message from the scripture and from our celebrant's homily. There are usually so many distractions with the kids there, but today I had nothing else to focus on. The message that I received through our pastor, Father Chris, was that, "Out of death,comes new life." Jesus died on the cross but was raised to new life in resurrection. This got me thinking about my own situation. Part of me died on that saturday in the MRI machine. My life as I had known it up until then had ended. It was the scariest day of my life. But out of that death has come new life. It is still scary in some ways, but in other ways there is a sense of excitement. What will this new life bring? Where will it take me? What experiences will I have that I wouldn't have had if my life hadn't changed? This is such an amazing gift that God gives us to help us look past the fear,and look toward the new opportunities.

The rest of Sunday was very nice. Our visitors headed home after lunch.I went to my parents by myself. I needed a change of scenery and I'm sure Sue enjoyed a little time without the patient! I used my parent's jacuzzi tub, which was very relaxing. I watched both the Ranger's and Met's games, which was far from relaxing since they both lost. I took a couple of naps and had a great dinner of chicken, mashed potatoes, stuffing and broccoli. Nothing like Mom's home cooking!

I tracked the progress of the flights back from Florida and I'm glad everyone returned safely and had a great time. Maybe it's time for me to make an apprearance in the band room......but when...hmmmmm.