Old Age!

 Old Age!

 

My sister-in-law says that she has the Arkansas crud. That means she is stopped up and sneezing with the breezes. Considering the pollen count right now, most of us who have any allergies at all will be “enjoying” this time of the year more than any other time with plenty of sound effects—from either end! Sneeze really big and see what comes out from under your nose while holding your legs together tightly! Dagnabit! Get just a wee bit over the hill and discover the fun of old age! But then, we have to celebrate each one of these days and thank God for each of them since not every person gets to enjoy these interesting events!

 

You will find some words from Diann Dennis concerning her granddaughter, Raye Louise. Poor child has been in considerable pain just lately with the treatments that are given her for the cancer in her eyes. Please remember the child in your prayers and remember that her parents and grands are in their own kind of pain for her. It just makes a parent ache when a child hurts. At the same time that you are praying for Raye and her parents, please remember Zeke Ambroisous and his family. They have no idea what is going on with the little guy, but they have had to go back to the hospital with him. He is the little one who kept having seizures even after he was placed in a medically induced coma.

 

Our lives are never anything like sure when we make our plans or try to accomplish even the least thing. You know that only God is truly able to make plans and carry them out. We just think we want to do things and try to head our actions in one direction or another. We would do about as well to try to design roses and their perfume as to make our plans and accomplish them. Not much is going to happen the way we want things. In my case, just smelling the roses can cause all kinds of interesting reactions. Only one rose bush around here—the Seven Sisters Rose—that does not cause me too many problems. It is beginning to bloom. The deep sigh you hear is mine because it lasts about as long as spring before shedding all its blooms. The best thing about this bush is the fact that it does not reach out and grab me with its thorns. Had to get rid of the beautiful roses around here because the thorns caused me to have infections if they scratched me. Nothing like being allergic to a silly thorn!

 

Sterling said that Danny Pollard has developed diabetes to go along with the blood cancer. Poor kid. Well, he is a grown man, but to us, he is still a kid. Anyway, the chemo is hard enough, and now he is being restricted as to what he can eat. Sterling said that getting older means—for some of us—not drinking late in the afternoon or not eating after 4 p.m. to avoid reflux and those trips to the necessary room all night long! He managed to pass out the other morning from getting up too fast, so now he will try to remember to get up slowly and act a little bit like an old man. Ah, life is wonderful!

 

For all our gripes and groans, isn’t life really something to enjoy and to appreciate! We are so very blessed. The birds sing for us; the hens come running to us; the dogs love us; the cats cuddle us; and our families make our eyes light up with love. Can we all hope that our Father feels that way about us, as well.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.