LoveFromBarb

The week after the Big Scare:  it's a good thing no angst was spent on worrying about the lump.  Because it doesn't rise to the level of further checking for cancer:  a thorough ultrasound performed by an Artist of the Specialty settled the matter.  And said ultrasound is now archived for future comparison in case of any changes, growth or suspicious activity among the several lumpy nodes resident in me. Great news.  Time to give thanks and encourage others who may be facing your own Big Scare. Hubby and I had agreed as we walked into the hospital that whatever the test result, we would face with faith and prayer and a positive expectation of being in God's will for us, however it might go.   As the poet writ: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunte...

 A lump has appeared in my groin on the same leg that had a malignant melanoma excised last year.  Instant brush with fear.  Quickly reined in by remembering that I believe in Prayer Healing A Supreme All-powerful Creator God Who Knows My Name And that bubble of the Peace that Passes all Understanding has been sealed securely around me in the week since.   This past Sunday in our Bible Study class -- for the first time in the 40 something years we have been attending,   during the Praise and Prayer Request time, several people volunteered praises for their being x-many years cancer-free!  Please forgive me for seeing that as evidence that my prayers had been heard in heaven and to Keep the Faith. I have all confidence that if this is the chariot that takes me home, it is because God  has taken care of my every concern for loved ones and it is Time for me to see what eternity where there is only joy and no more tears! God has been faithful to ...

Almost the whole of our married life has been spent working together.  For years we have been together 24/7, day after day.  This is because I married a serial entrepreneur,  just like his father.  His father died during Mike's senior year in high school so I never met him.  He was a man of many parts, however: worked in the East Texas oil fields, sold ski boats, sold marketing materials, had the Dallas Morning News delivery route for Jacksonville, Texas, for years, called square dances, as well as being heavily involved in his three sons' athletics.  And probably a lot more than is listed here. That is where Mike got the 'flexible'  business gene and  so he started out armed with a Business degree from Sam Houston University and we enjoyed learning many businesses during our 55 years together.   I hear couples who have enjoyed separate careers complaining about too much togetherness when they retire and surely they have legitimate gripe...

 Today, March 2, (aka Texas Independence Day) is also the 55th Anniversary of the day my spouse and I got married.  In 1968.  So many decades ago!  The purpose of this blog is to encourage you, beloved seekers of wisdom and truth wherever in the world you may be, in your quest for a long-lasting connection to at least one other person:  there is such  a thing and it is worth all your effort. I was not prepared to post quite yet -- though obviously age-advanced, I am not equally tech-advanced.  But it was on this day 55 years ago that the connection was set for the two of us,  so it is important to begin this connection with you, on this date in 2023. Though brief because I've used up the time allotted to today's post in just getting the blog established, it is nevertheless heartfelt.  You are the future that I want to speak to, so, God willing, tomorrow will come with more time together.  I look forward to sharing with you then. ...