How much can a family take?

¹² I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.   - - KJV

We will have the strength to move forward through these rough times. 
Now, our Aunt M is in this morning for emergency Quad Bypass surgery.
Another hit to our stress levels and family units.
More examples of mortality.

With all this, we will come together with those we love or part with our good-byes and memories. Either way, it is with the inevitable confidence that we smile, because we will see each other again with Him after we part here.

Whether we are now separated by location or events, we have lived, loved, laughed and shared a lifetime of family.  We rejoice in the moments we have NOW and live to enjoy each moment, even if tinged with pain and strife.

God Bless our Aunt M and the doctors working on her today. 

The Heart of Friends

Feeling all-around 'yukky' today.  It's been the good friends around me who are keeping me going and lifting my spirit when I cannot lift my own.  I was not myself when I snapped at a couple of people yesterday afternoon, having a bad Monday.   It upset me that I took out my anger on them and I felt the urgent need to apologize to both of them.   What wonderful hearts of friends.  They are so forgiving and wonderful that they understood completely after a talk of the details.

May they be forgiven for anything today just as they have forgiven me.

Take a minute to appreciate your friends today.  This was indeed a reminder of how much we all need each other, during good and bad.

Feel Good Pic & Poem #10

Smiling faces of the flower,
The happy audience of my awe
and wonder of the summer season.
-- m. o'hearn 8/2/2011