life is good

Hi there.  hope this blog post finds you content and well.  as always, coffee is good and i am alive.  the kids are peaches and handy manny is busy fixing things on my tv for my sons entertainment so i can scribble here.

just the thought in my head for the day...

last night in bed i was reading about syria and war. typically things i try to avoid reading because i am helpless and i find it to be disturbing.  but, for some reason, i felt the need to be brought up to pace. left with a fearful feeling in my gut, i went to bed.  as i woke up this morning and read online, there seemed to be 3 or 4 articles that i kept seeing regarding cancer, especially the rise of cancer in north america.  wait, north america...that's where i am. so i read the article. gahhh. why do i read things about a war that we cannot win and a disease that apparently our north american lifestyle is promoting?

and when i read stuff like this, i am not just concerned about the well being of me, but my children, whom i make decisions for, my husband, my whole family, my friends, YOU, yes, i am even worried about your safety and health!  and then i hear handy manny. a good samaritan, helping friends, teaching people and always providing quality work.  i look out my window, and the sparkling september sun that i talked about yesterday came back for the day to shine on my life.  i think about the lessons we will do in our homeschool today; the ones that i planned for my kids and no one told me how to do it.  i think of all this. i think of how despite what is going on around me that is bigger and scarier and out of my control, what is going on right around me is nothing less than perfect and delightful.

it is recited often that ignorance is bliss, and it is.  every day we are learning and growing, and that is important. but sometimes i wished i wouldn't have learned about syria. i wish i wouldn't have learned that my can of pepsi and my microwave are killing me. i wish all i knew was that the sun glimmers on me and my family, God loves me unconditionally and that handy manny is a cool dude.

raise your mug.  celebrating what is good in my life because i know i cannot do it all. we will do our best today. we will learn. we will eat fruit. we will use our microwave. we will trust our God. and maybe i will go buy 30 jugs of water to stash in my basement for doomsday.