GREAT NEWS!!!

Things have been consistently busy for me for the last little while.  It has been warming up here for the last month or so, and I'm grateful.  I have been spending more time out in the sunshine that I waited most of the winter for.  Some of that time has been spent in what I have termed the 'Dandelion War'.  That's where you keep clobbering the little yellow rebels and they keep coming back for more.  They are so pretty though.  Too bad they get to be too much of a good thing so easy.

And I have been working on a vegetable garden.  We live in a small town, and we don't have all the room for that sort of thing that we had when we lived in the country, but we still put one in, a small one.  We will at least have some fresh veggies in the fall, some of our favorites.  Squash is one of my faves.  And I am trying Eggplant this year.  I have never grown Eggplant before.  Actually, I have never tasted Eggplant before.  I started four seeds indoors and 2 have sprouted.  I'm looking forward to seeing what happens.

Now with my limited strength, which by the way is increasing all the time (Thank You Lord) the house looks like a disaster struck.  But I think that's ok.  Well, maybe not ok.  Ok for now, considering that it's nice outside and I get to be out in the sunshine.  And considering that last year at this time I really wasn't well enough to do much of anything, much less gardening.  I did some, but not what I have already done this year.  So I am picking up, and I expect to get better and better all the time.

Also, last year at this time my Mom was going for radiation treatments for stage 4 lung cancer.  The prognosis was poor.  Not much time left.  Last year was sooooo hard.  I watched my strong mother hardly able to get around, and then they said the end had come.  Some of you may remember that I asked for lot's of prayers at that time.  Well, guess what ... ?

The Lord has had great mercy on me.  My Mom went to her routine Dr. appointment a couple of weeks ago and the x-ray came back clear.  No tumour.  No cancer.  God be Praised.  My mother was the recipient of a Miracle of God.  She came out of the Dr.'s office and came into the waiting room where I was and told me the great news, and I just went kind of numbish.  I couldn't laugh.  I couldn't cry.  I just sat there.  You know, I'm still kind of like that.  I know that God has touched her body, and she is ok.  I know that in my heart.  And yet, somehow, it hasn't really seemed to sink in yet.  I wonder how that works.  But anyway, to those of you who held my Mom and me up in your prayers I say a great big Thank You.  And, once again, an even bigger THANK YOU  to the Great Physician, Jesus.  She still has a touch of emphysema (sp?) and some muscle trouble from an accident she had a few years ago.  But I look forward to having Mom around for many, many, many years to come.  The Lord is soooooo gracious.

My friend situation is sort of starting to remind me of a Merry-Go-Round at a Carnival.  I wonder if I fail people or if they fail me.  I wonder if my expectations are too high, or are theirs.  I wonder if I'm the only one to blame.  I wonder if I'm just being selfish and making excuses to ease my conscience.  I wonder a lot of things ...  It makes me sad to think so, but I fear I have lost another friend that I valued.  I still smell a rat though ...

Anyway, I hope that your spring and summer is shaping up to be a beautiful time for you.  In spite of the hiccups that seem to pop up my own personal spiral upward is looking brighter.  And I am looking forward to visiting your Blogs more regularly once again.  I am always blessed by the things you say and by your perspective on things and I have missed it in this short time I have not been around.

God bless you, and much love to you ...