Conversation

Ahh, sweet relief. I woke-up with my low-back feeling better today. Thanks be to God! I snuggled closely with the heating pad most of yesterday afternoon and evening. Whew. What a relief. It's still kind of sore and weak feeling, but responds to my own little finger massages today. I should be as good as 52 gets again in a day or so.

Got my first weekly report on the new CK site. I only achieved three green checks for the week. I wasn't too terribly off on the other days, but none-the-less I'll have to do better. I am reluctantly getting used to the new site and see some helpful aspects to it that the other one didn't have. I'm sure once they work out the bugs it will be fine.

One week until Christmas. Being unemployed has the benefit of not having to deal with holiday shopping. Santa will not come to our house this year and I really don't even care. We found a pitiful little Charlie Brown; fake, table-top tree in the garage and put it up. My daughter put out some Christmas lights on the porch and things look festive enough. Luckily the kids will receive gifts from their father who is in a much better place financially than I. His gifts sound like they will be quite generous this year. I think it is a good lesson for my kids to be learning...to see the direct connection between employment and life as usual...or not. I hope to be able to budget enough from the next unemployment check to provide, at least, a token pair of slippers for each one of them. Our floors are mostly ceramic tile and they get chilly. Anyway - these are not the important things about the holiday and my children know that, thank goodness. They have all left the church, but went with me enough as children that surely they will return someday when life reaches the point that they begin to wonder again...

I don't think I will attempt a regular walk around the block today. Just navigating the homestead will be challenge enough. I'll keep moving though, because it seems the right thing to do. It keeps the body loose. I will watch my food intake carefully and keep it within limits given the lack of exercise. At least that is my goal. Luckily I lose my appetite when I'm under the weather for any reason so that should help.

"God is good all the time, oh yes, I'm glad that He's a friend of mine." - Babbie Mason
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Well. I just began "conversation" with my presbytery about the call to FPC, Taylor. It will be facinating to watch "the good ole' boys" deal with this. I have no idea what the outcome will be. On one hand they may wish to be shed of me. On the other hand they realize the PC value of keeping their only female 'performer' as it were. We shall see.

"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things." - Montaigne, "Of Presumption"