Thinking and Feeling

I think that:

• retirement changes perspective. “No one ever contacts me” has come to mean that I haven’t had an extended conversation with a family member (other than the one who lives in my house) for at least five days.
• most people don’t realize it takes years, not weeks, to write a novel.
• nothing could be more frightening for me than finding my Hubby unconscious.
• small group situations with friends and family are fun and parties with groups of unfamiliar people are “unfun.”
• beginning my college studies after having four children was a blessing. I’m glad that, while earning my three degrees at state universities, I could joke about the silly ideas of liberal professors.
• without my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren there would be much less joy in my life.
• Hubby being my total opposite makes for balance during our journey together.
• I write much better if, at the same time, I snack on Gummy Bears. (Harbio to be exact.)
•  my real friends don’t care what kind of house I live in, what kind of car I drive, where I shop, or how many degrees I have earned.
• it was okay to feel appreciated when a fifth grade student checked to see if I might be considering a divorce because she wanted me to meet her father.
• my most obvious absent-minded professor event was wearing one each of identically made navy blue and black shoes to class.
• God understood this mother’s plea and did not view me as foolish when I begged Him to take the cancer from my daughter and place it instead into my body.
• a good scripture for today might be Isaiah 45:3 as I process the news that a friend has cancer.(Oswald Chambers comments on this verse by writing, “We can see the stars because of the surrounding darkness. And it is because of the mysterious darkness of God’s providences that the secrets of God are ever known to us.”)

Joanne

 

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             Charlene