Our days...

Stay with me here, I've not been very faithful in writing to you...so...bear with me and take a listen to a short 'twin' story...and then I promise, we'll get down to business!!!

Official Twin story: We are officially in our second full week of school. It seems like things are extremely calm here...perhaps I don't know 'everything that's going on' but the girls are loving it! They laugh a lot, and play crazy music...and talk about clothes and make up and hair length and piercings...part of being 13...I suppose. I sometimes forget how OLD I am compared to how YOUNG they are!

I was abruptly reminded of the 'gap' this past week end when the girls were singing along to a popular song on the radio...lyrics went something like "swish, girl...do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips..."--they were just singing along...and I said..."Do you even know who Helen Keller is/was?"
"No," they said.
So, being the great and profound mother that I am, I proceeded to explain to them about her, and her life, and about how she couldn't hear, see or speak...and, of course, you are WAY ahead of me because one of the girls said, "Well, that can't be right, she had to be able to talk, because otherwise, who sang the song?"Oh, my. OH MY!

The reason I blog: My husband and I attended a couple of different celebrations last week end. One was an anniversary party, celebrating 50 years of marriage by some friends of ours from church. It was great to see them laughing and having fun with friends and family. 50 years is a long time to be married. But, at the same time, when I congratulated them, the wife said, it just doesn't seem like 'that long ago'...and I think she's right...time flies--doesn't it?
The next day, we were privileged to attend a wedding celebration for another couple that attends our church--just starting their journey together. Quite a contrast, but that's the way life is, isn't it?

I have friends who are celebrating new life with babies, and marriages, and I also have friends who have just lost loved ones and still others' whose marriages seem to be crumbling around them. That's the way this life on earth seems, isn't is...good/bad...hope/joy...highs/lows...we can learn from each moment, each experience...each celebration: Life is precious. It is a Gift. Celebrate it because NONE of these moments is a surprise to Our Great God...

I not only take great comfort in the following, I glean from it great hope about the character of a Holy, Great, Mighty God....take a listen...
O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid you hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wins of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," event he darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.--Psalm 139:1-16

You can get the idea here...I read this and it brings me to tears...to think that in the very next verse, it says that the number of thoughts that God has concerning my life would outnumber the grains of sand...and HE is still with me...

I sit and think and

just in the quiet think about that...just quietly...without words...think...about...HIM...and HIS thoughts...and HIS Holiness...OK, now without words...you ... do..... the..... same...