Hey there! Its me again.

I am amazed.  

Simply amazed.  

This old blog is still here and I remembered the password to get to it!

Who'd have thunk it?

So much has happened since I last posted more than a few years ago.  

My sweet Daddy lost his fight with Parkinson's Disease.

We have opened our home to share with asylum seekers from another country.

RocketMan retired

but he didn't really retire...

he went right back to work the next day at the same desk, 

doing the same job.  

Don't ask.  

I'm confused, too.

I retired.

We went to France and Spain to walk 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago.

We walked over the Pyrenees mountains.

We walked over 100 miles in 10 days, 

but had to stop when I fell 

and dislocated my shoulder and tore my bicep.  

Getting out of the shower can be dangerous business.

I've had several surgeries, including rotator cuff and bicep repair (see the above statement).

We've crossed the threshold of a whole new decade and are proudly part of the 60+ crowd.

Which, unfortunately, comes with a whole new set of aches and ailments.

Lots of stuff has happened, I tell you.

Then...along comes 2020.  

The year that looked at all of us, 

laughed and said, 

"Hold my beer!"

Can you believe it all?  

It seems surreal, like a Salvador Dali painting.

The clock is melting off the table.

I feel like we are collectively wondering what could possibly be next? 

I know I am.

I'm finding comfort and strength in simple things.  

Taking a walk

 Playing with my dog

Reading a book 

Prayer and meditation  

Potting flowers for the patio 

Special time with my dear Mother 

Conversations with friends 

Very quiet evenings with the RocketMan

Baking bread

Dreaming

I've even taken up the Ukulele again! 

I read something in a newsletter once that goes something like this:

If we attend to the small things, God will take care of the larger things.  

Surely God is in the small and the large. 

What I took away from that was to trust God 

with the things I most certainly can't control.  

Pandemic 

Quarantine 

Violence

Economics 

Riots 

Elections 

A world gone mad

A world in need of a Savior 

What I can control is this 

...my attitude.

I may start working out my thoughts and recording my observations here again.  

It was such a comfortable spot for me to write. 

A place to check my attitude.

To concentrate on my blessings, which are myriad.

A place to note the beauty and good things that I see around me daily.

I'm clinging to hope and the familiar, especially in scripture.
I hope you are, as well.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true,

whatever is honorable, whatever is right,

whatever is pure, whatever is lovelocks,

whatever is of good repute, if there is any

excellence and if anything worthy of praise,

dwell on these things.

Philippians 4:8 nasb


~mollianne