Come, Holy Spirit

Replace the tension within us with a holy relaxation. Replace the turbulence within us with a sacred calm. Replace the anxiety within us with a quiet confidence. Replace the fear within us with a strong faith. Replace the bitterness within us with the sweetness of grace. Replace the darkness within us with a gentle light. Replace the coldness within us with a loving warmth. Replace the winter within us with Thy spring. Straighten our crookedness, fill our emptiness, dull the edge of our pride, sharpen our humility, light the fires of our love, quench the flames of lust. Let us see ourselves as Thous seest us, that we may see Thee as Thou hast promised, and be blessed according to Thy word: Blessed are the pure of heart, for the shall see God. (Damien-Dutton Society for Leprosy Aid, Inc. 616 Bedford Ave, Bellmore, NY 11710)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Catching Up

I've an adult son who has graduated from high school.  He is going to work (looking for a job more seriously after our family holiday this summer) until he figures out what to do.  It's something and that's all we ask right now.

My daughter is finishing summer school PE today.  Her heels are poorly so the coaches said to get a refund on session two . . . so I did.  They didn't feel that she would be able to keep up, not having time to recover from this session's exercises.  Fear not!  I went into the registrars office and made changes in her junior year classes to include that semester of PE she'll need to graduate.  She dropped culinary in hopes to gain PE and Driver's Ed.  (Gulp!)

I also made a change (a request actually, since we won't know for sure any changes have been made until we have their class schedules) in Christian's classes.  He'll be entering high school.  He wants to swap physical science for biology.  Good move.  I approve.  Now, I only hope he gets it.

Tomorrow morning I shall be at the hospital for what I'm calling a pre-op appointment for an endoscopy.  It's a "planning" appointment and at that appointment I will schedule the actual procedure.  It is imperative that we find out what's making my innards hurt.  In the past two years, I've been in the ER for terrible chest pain three times - like a spear going straight through my chest, just above the sternum all the way through to between the shoulder blades (not that I know what it's like to have a spear through my chest, but I'm guessing).  Well, the ultrasound showed nothing.  That doesn't mean it's not my gallbladder acting up (only a HIDA scan can determine that, but that will be requested if and once they find or don't find anything wrong with my endoscopy).  I'm on some kind of ball rolling into mystery . . . let's hope they find a reason for this pain.

I'll have one of my kids teach me how to get the pictures off my phone so I can share from the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway ball Dan and I attended recently.  For those of you not on Facebook, it might entertain you to see me decked out.  I don't "do" formals . . . at least not since my senior prom in high school.  I must admit:  it was good fun.  I felt like a princess and Dan . . . wowza!  I love him in his choker whites!  Yum!  We did strike a fancy couple.

Ah, LarryD and all those who use Wordpress:  I'm so terribly sorry I can't post comments on your lovely blogs.  I have to sign in using WP and I no longer have an account and I'm not sure I want to get one and start moving my blog again . . . still on the fence about that.  If/When I do, you'll know.  I'll tell.  I have a big mouth like that.  Anyway, I do pop 'round your blogs nearly daily!  So, please know I'm still laughing, crying, and all that lovely stuff right along with your other readers!

I do so covet your prayers, friends.  Know that you're all in mine.

P.S.  I forgot I managed to copy the pic from FB to my PC . . . so here you all go: