One step at a time

Happiness peaked at me, around the corner, the other day.  Then she ran away.  Like a shy child, it fled from my glance.  No, not shy. Like a child you know well, and love, playing “peekaboo“ with you it peeked at me around the corner, giggled , then darted away. I’m so ready for you to come stay. I wanted to scream at her, but it could not hear me for some reason.  Where do you hide? When you’re not here? I wondered.  Why have I gone so many years without seeing you, I couldn’t understand.  But she’s still there. Giggling, curls bouncing, in love with the world, dancing at every song  She’s still there.  One day I will find her or maybe she’ll find me. 

The opening scene of “Fiddler On A Roof” always makes me laugh.     Tevie screaming “Tradition!!”.  Demanding things must remain the same. It was intended to be a parody, not to be taken seriously, but I think he has a point. Society evolves.  Clothes that were fashionable 30 years ago are laughable today. Sayings “cool” even 20 years ago seem ridiculous today. Even the style and colors of our homes continues to change. On a personal note, I was never into the whole “gray“ trend. Gray, the color of absolutely nothing. lol There are some things that should never change. Keeping God, first place in our homes IS the most important one.  But slowly, we evolve, if we’re not very vigilant and careful.     Complacency and apathy take over, like a mouse that comes in every night just to steal one grain of rice pretty soon our spirit or “bag” is empty.  Our society shows it! How many families today have home altars? How many families today insist thei...

Do you know your God? May was an interesting month for me, in many ways. Immediately after mom‘s funeral, I decided to tidy up the living room. I wanted to get her ostomy supplies together and give them to a friend. Those things are super expensive and I definitely wanted to bless someone with them if I could.  For some reason as I begin tidying up that one corner of the room, I decided to completely rearrange the living room. I still don’t know what came over me.  Before I was done, I had three rooms in complete disarray.   My whole house was, “tore up from the floor up“, lol, which would have been no big deal, because I still had 10 days before I was going back to work.  But my sweet grandson decided he was done waiting to come into the world. His mom went into premature labor on Thursday night, the 18th, and I spent the next nine days, happily, taking care of grandbabies.  I came home exhausted the night before I started back to work to a “Tore up” house, and...