A Time For Every Season....

February 24, 2007 Drew and I had a very fun week! We went to the park and played with some friends from our old church in Euless --Charles and Mark. We also took Kitty on a walk to the pond many times this week, the weather warmed up in to the 70's, so Kitty was hot enough to chase her ball in the pond. Now every time we drive by she gets excited thinking we are going swimming! This week was Spring Cleaning! I opened all the windows and let all the dust out of the house. My allergies have been going crazy, but I think the house is as dust free as it will get! The house was given a window washing, dust treatment, three vacuum treatments, and the fans were dusted (they were gross!), the drapes were washed and all the rooms have been dusted. The place was a horrible mess, closets have been cleaned, boxes were taken to the attic & goodwill, and John even caught the Spring Cleaning bug and cleaned the entire garage. Our rental car will even fit! I am exhausted. Every evening this ...

Finally I think we are all well! It has been a wild 10 days. Drew was sick but we didn't take him to the doctor because the flue is going around and the doctor's office was contaminated. Our doctor said if it wasn't an emergency, not to bring him in. Then, I was sick with a cold, which turned into a sinus infection. Drew and I had to go into the doctor Friday for that, we washed our hands a lot while there! There were atleast 4 people in the waiting room with the flue. Drew was a trooper, he played with his trains and cried when we went into the examining room because he thought he was getting shots. Then, on Monday John was driving home from getting our bikes fixed and was in a car accident. A truck slammed into him and sandwiched him into a Blazer. John had to take Monday and Tuesday off work because his back and neck were hurting and he had to go to the back surgeon to have everything looked at. Our car is salvageable, but just barely. It looks like about 8,000 worth of ...

I was emotionally consumed this week with the depravity of the world and the lost hearts of people; saddened by the stories of lives overtaken by sin and wickedness. My heart is heavy, people everywhere are struggling and hurting deeply - - an old friend of our family who has been disowned by her children and husband, people with unwanted pregnancy's, a Christian couple still battling infertility, the horrific method of partial birth abortion being performed every day in our country on innocent living children, disabled and dieing children with no one to love them, death, cancer, war. This week it has seemed like the precious gift of life somewhere along the way has been taken over by sin and suffering. People are hurting, marriages are falling apart, suicide is rampant, illness and suffering surround me and I ask God "Why"?. Then, in the middle of my musings with God, He softly reminded me about the prophet Habakkuk who penned a short book in the Old Testament just befor...