Very Grateful for:

…God’s intelligence working through smart doctors, technicians, and nurses

…God’s gift of rain this morning

…God’s creatures great and small

…the unsettling effect that a wolf spider had on my growing melancholy and apprehension this morning

…the focus it took to, um,  dis-invite this world’s largest spider from inside my front door shook me out of my apprehension

…the realization that if I could conquer the world’s largest spider, then I could show up and suit out for my medical tests today

Mary Ellen’s early morning email (thank you, Mary Ellen)

seeing a former work colleague before the procedure who then happened to be my nurse!

breathing into acceptance and trust in the process

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
~J. R. R. Tolkien