I have been spending entirely too much time on Facebook and Twitter!  It has caused me to neglect my blogging.  I enjoy FB and Twitter but I like to be able to ramble on with my thoughts in a different format too.

So since I wrote last, which looks like middle of March, I have had a birthday.  I don’t particularly feel older, but I do see significant changes in my body happening much too quickly.  The most telling sign is my eyes.  They have rapidly gotten worse.  I use to have excellent vision, then I turned 45 and it began to get worse.  Now 2 years later, I am looking at full time glasses with probable bifocals.  I have an appointment today.

I have been in recovery for 6 months from 2 hand/elbow surgeries, done back to back nearly.  I am finally seeing the end of the tunnel there.  The second arm is healing although it seems slower than the first.  It’ll get there.

All of this sitting around time has put on quiet a few pounds, to say the least.  I absolutely cannot stand being over weight.  I trust that will change with increased activity.

Fibromyalgia has been giving me fits lately.  I’m having a hard time sleeping at night and fear that vicious circle lack of sleep can trigger.

That all sounds depressing but I am actually in good spirits.

Kristin and the girls continue to live with us, which is working out well.  You just do what you have to do and go on with living.  After all, life is for the living.  You make the best of the situations put before you or you don’t.

Kylie is doing very well in kindergarten, Karlie and I stay home together.  Hoping to get her into pre-k this next school year.  Rhilyn is a doll!  She has this gorgeous unruly curly hair that matches her personality.  We are looking forward to her new baby sister coming very soon.  She has yet to make her arrival into this world, but a couple more weeks at the most and we will be cradling her.  A new life!!!  And she will be number 5!  Kens is a beautiful little girl, who adores me as I do her.

I am a very blessed person!

We had a great Easter with a lot of family over to share a meal together.  Easter morning, at our Flowering of The Cross, I delivered the devotional.  I wasn’t nervous and felt I did a good job.  God is so good that way!

We have been serving this church now for 8 years, starting our 9th.  That’s a long time in one church.  In some ways it has been good for us.  In other ways, I think new challenges would fit the bill, so to speak.  I would like a new start.  I have not had the opportunities to use my gifts to their fullest since I’ve been here.  There has just been too much to learn, too many ‘firsts’ to weather.

Being on “this side” of ministry has been interesting to say the least.  In so many ways, i prefer “the other side”.  It’s much easier, but then we aren’t working in the kingdom here for easy.  Don’t misunderstand me, I love my life and would not want it any other way.  But it is very difficult to of seen the pettiness, the gripes, the silly childish games that occur.  This is not at all what Christ had in mind when he said to love one another as you do yourself.  Community isn’t suppose to talk behind backs, tattle tale, give up or just quite all together.  But it happens frequently.  I suppose life gets in the way.  We certainly aren’t good at putting priorities in their proper places.

I know i will continue to see this in ministry.  I know God is there to help me through it all.  My faith is secure, it is unwavering.

I am truly blessed!