• Having the ability  to truly enjoy good actions movies together with my sixteen year old
• Enjoying quality pop music (Stevie Wonder tv show) and the latest summer hits together
• Both feeling the ah relief when the right bus is showing up after hours outside
• Letting him have late eve hours in the living room – while i appreciate Silence in my bedroom here.
• Learning more about that life is far too big for controlling ..once again
• Watching him while he is eating his new alltime favourit pizza

1.  A beautiful and sunny day.  

2.  The Chance to pay respects to my 106 year old neighbor who died on May 27.

3.   Love in all its forms.

4.  My son and dog, Jax.

5.  My church and God.

6.  My family and friends.

7.   A.A.

1. The way that God always keeps us in peace and how when the Holy Spirit inspires us to action, it is always when we’re in a state of peace
2. That God gave us the Sabbath, giving us ample time to rest and be replenished!
3. Fresh organic produce from the grocery store: zucchinis, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs, portobello mushrooms, green bell peppers, red leaf lettuce, carrots, and yellow squash!
4. I won a gift card!
5. How appliances like the toaster oven makes cooking so much easier and fun!

1 Abscence making the Heart grow fonder

2 Lazy rainy days

3 This Life

4 The wild life around me  – no matter how much of my garden they eat!

5 Fixing a leak without calling a plumber!

6 Back in a good groove!

7 Baby steps

8  Health

9 My two amazing, lovely, happy daughters!

10 Knowing I did my best!

1. Peace and quiet
2. My niece behaving so well when her mother’s not around
3. The cleansing sensation of the rain
4. Tried a new lemongrass basil sauce for dinner and it was delicious!
5. The opportunity to read the bible to my niece and my sister! This was the first time I’ve ever gotten the chance to do this and it is such a blessing! My 1-year old niece literally grabbed a bible and handed it to her mom. Her mom couldn’t read it because she was preparing food and the bible app on her phone couldn’t play because her phone’s speaker doesn’t work. I happened to be on the computer and was able to quick go to http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm to read one of my favorite chapters in the bible (1 Corinthians 13) to my niece. While I don’t know how much of it she and her mom listened to me as I read to her or how much of it she understood or whether I was reading at the right pace/volume, it occurred to me that this very moment was why God placed me here (on earth, in this house, with this family) at this time. This event happened today, and just yesterday God gave me a revelation about the bible. It is so important to me to read the bible and to be able to read it to my family is an incredible and very rare blessing!
6. More book donations for our church’s ministry booth! It looks like we might be able to give away a book to every visitor!
7. I woke up this morning with a revelation about love, i.e. God speaking to me and helping me understand what love is. As soon as I woke up, He said to me “Love is caring.” It’s caring about other people’s health in mind, body, and spirit. It’s being just as excited as they are when they have good news and celebrating with them. Love is not responding with a careless “Oh” and walking away. Love is not responding coldly. Love is genuinely and selflessly caring about other people–our fellow creations of God, in the same way that we care about ourselves.
8. I try to read a portion of the bible before going to bed every night. Today I was being led by the Holy Spirit to read Jude chapter 1. I read the part about “praying in the Holy Spirit” and wondered how I can do that and what the difference is between that and just simply praying. I did some research online and found “That is, He is the one who motivates and enables and energizes your prayer. And when you pray in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God is ‘guiding’ how you pray and what you pray for. So, to pray in the Holy Spirit is to be moved and guided by the Holy Spirit in prayer. We pray by his power and according to his direction.” It turns out I already pray in the Holy Spirit and this is a gift too. Thank you God for allowing us to speak to you and for speaking to us and through us!

1. My beloved purple umbrella has been lost for 4 days now. It’s my only umbrella and I’ve been using it for over 10 years. I asked St. Anthony to pray for me to help me find it, as I do with all lost items. Today, just when I was browsing umbrellas online to buy a new one, the Holy Spirit told me to go look upstairs first. I did so and I immediately found it!!! Hurray! Thank you God!
2. The generosity of donors donating books for our upcoming church ministry booth at the local summer fair!
3. A fully-stocked fridge of organic produce!
4. Realizing I have more money left over for groceries than I thought I had!

• Obama singing “Amazing Grace” so so lovely
• The Us supreme court’s Yes to gay marriages touches me with warm joy
• First week in Oslo, vacation alone with my sixteen year old son  – it’s tough and rough fun and most of all lovely travelling together
• The appartment suits us perfectly – so does the location in town  in a central and quiet area
• I feel very well taken care of and able to enjoy our precious time together
• Thank you again Crystal for this Oasis on the web:0))

– being alive

– having an awesome healthy daughter

– for my job

– able to taste food

– with super cool and good neighbors

– for my wonderful wife

– to laugh with my colleagues

– for weekends

– baseball season

-NY Yankees!

It was a busy week. My grand daughter’s birthday. Ice Cream Social. Play practice. A funeral.Decisions and revisions. Frustrating situations! Challenging people!

Speaking of vision glad my bloodshot eye is responding to the drops.

Trying to accept decisions made by others. Trust!

Trying to believe that things are proceeding as they should. Faith!

Trying to be more… forgiving and understanding.

Trying to be less… critical and harsh

Trying to be grateful though I am tired.

Trying to find the peace and contentment I see in others.

I know I’m being trying . Lord help me keep on trying.

1.  This weekend will be our 50th reunion for Firestone High School, Class of ’65!

2.  Classmates are coming in from all over the country for this exciting event!

3.  My friend, Jan, and I had so much fun making name tags for everyone.

4.  I’ve been listening to 60s music all week long to get in the mood.

5.  Tomorrow I am getting my hair spiked so I have a young and modern hairdo!  lol

6.  It’s a 3 day celebration!  Friday and Saturday nights at two different country clubs.

7.  Saturday we are getting a tour of our old school and then driving our DECORATED cars to a local drive-in restaurant for lunch!!  and then on to our favorite ice cream parlor

8.  Sunday at a local winery

9.  I have outfits all lined up for every event.

10.  Our reunion committee has had so much fun planning everything — if the weekend is half as fun as that, it will be fantastic!