Brian, a former Marine, and his wife Teresa have four grown children. They are visiting Family near Walt Disney World. We’ve known each other for 25 years. It was the first time meeting Brian’s step Mom.
During our leisurely lunch at Columbia Harbour House, we talked freely and abundantly about God and our infinite blessings.
Brian’s Mom shared how her husband died of cancer, and this led to a story about her overhearing a recently diagnosed cancer patient frustratedly asking aloud, “Why is God doing this to me?”
Just then, another woman (without cancer but who knew it well) said, “Why not me? Who am I that I should be spared from cancer?”
These five daily posts are always real life in real time.
Left the house this morning before writing a single blog post. Why? A 7:15am Quest Diagnostics appointment for annual blood work. Slept in until 6:15am to get eight hours sleep. Little time to do much except have a cup of hot water and get ready to leave for the appointment.
Writing now, while most people still haven’t started work yet.
When a confident, self-assured person takes it to a new level, things get worse for unhappy people. But for grateful happy people, it gets better for them. Yesterday’s standing ovation from the first post Disney speech was an incredible, unexpected gift on multiple levels.
Saying that to tell you this. While having an genuine conversation during the blood draw, the phlebotomist shared that her 32-year old daughter and 33-year old son-in-law left their three children at home and went out to celebrate Mother’s Day in 2006. Because of a drunk driver, they never returned home.
My response? A gasp, an unbearable weight, and a few tears. A solemn reminder that the value of a single day rarely reveals itself.
She is thankful for her three grandchildren, the oldest a United States Marine.
We come to know the true meaning of our birth when we learn to celebrate it everyday. All day.
Does God provide for all our needs? Common sense tells us that we believe what we want to believe. So, your answer depends on your beliefs. It’s that simple.
Last week there was no graphic designer, and no contract. This week both materialized.
Sure, it took six years – about as long as we thought.
We both knew it wouldn’t happen until retirement from Disney, even though the business was incorporated six years earlier.
Thoughts often arrive at the most unexpected times. Tore a corner page to write it down.
Pray without ceasing means what? It’s just a bunch of words.
Under a microscope, it looks like a million little things that make up every choice we make about everything:
Some people who’ve been to hell and back (and we all have), you would never know because they never talk about how awful it was. All they talk about is how grateful they are to be back.
Many believe in an eternal resting place called Heaven. We also believe that it is the end game, the final destination. And we just need a one-way ticket.
What if there exists a round-trip option? Meaning, what if the current life and the after life were both glorious?
