Good Saturday to you from our corner of Iowa where ONCE AGAIN we are in the midst of a weather event. A pattern seems to be setting up for storms on Tues/Wed and Sat/Sunday. UGH. This one is bringing it all............rain, freezing rain, sleet, ice accumulations, heavy snow, high winds and oh, yeah around 6-12 or more inches of snow expected. Again. This year Joel purchased a bigger, more powerful snowblower. He found the perfect one! It has made the endless pile up of snow easier to manage. Certainly worth the cost!
Speaking of snow.........what about Arizona and Vegas? Yikes! Friends posted a photo of them building a snowman.....in Tucson!! My sister dug out her winter coat in Mesa. Crazy weather!
We are hopeful that this last surgery got rid of the large stone completely. At the end of next week I will have a scan which should reveal the results more clearly. The doctor thought it went better than he expected..........thank you Jesus. Usually an hour long, it was 2 1/2 hours this time. Recovery included a few challenges, but is going much better than the December disaster. I have had to go in for IV antibiotics for a week, when I would rather have been in Pj's on the sofa, but that is done now and we are moving forward. I have continued with breast cancer treatments throughout. One step forward at a time. I feel weak and wimpy at times, but I know that is not true so I keep "refusing to partner with that lie" from the enemy. And even when I am weak? God is strong.
Joel and I have been keeping track of those moments in time that are precious and easy to miss during tough circumstances. Counting our blessings. Yesterday a nurse came in who was helping with the IV infusion and offered us some Amish Friendship Bread that she had made and brought for the staff. Joel and her had been visiting about faith and her family priest who is now retiring at age 88. This priest also fixes clocks and had worked on our grandfather clock many years ago. A well loved man from what we gathered. And Joel sure enjoyed the bread! This week we enjoyed laughing together over a Fraiser episode or two, receiving a thank you in the mail from a grandson, a hairdresser willing to come to the house to cut my hair, having a few days of sunshine, texts from family and friends, prayers to carry us through. And a real luxury.......heated car seats! Oh, my, what a blessing they have been this year.
Sometimes the ordinary can appear so extraordinary in our lives. Times when we realize that every breath we take is really the breath of God, who lives in us. The ordinary appearing really so extraordinary. I hope today that your ordinary moments hold the extraordinary within. Because, isn't all of life really a bit extraordinary?
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