God Blessed Me Today

 Goings on today.   The O'Quilt's neighbors checking it all out.

Our Aoife meeting her first chicken.

And more....at the petting zoo!!!!!

Being just one year old is an amazing thing!!

Dylan helping to move the big branch, Evan helped with the final push, even though he did not want to dirty his shoes.

Behold my empty space.  Dearest Heather and her dearest man came to help me today.

They took home my big recliner....to remember me by....Ha!

They loaded all my rotten stuff in a truck for a dump run.

AND, Heather made me her famous salad for dinner.

How can I ever do for others, the way people have done for me??

Heather's salad is my favorite of all salads.  Home grown tomatoes and green peppers.

Homemade salad dressing.  Homegrown friendship!!!

An absolute miracle.

Very Applicable to today: written by CS Lewis in 1948

You may have seen this, written by CS Lewis in 1948.  Very applicable to today:

“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

I just love CS Lewis!!!  He is the one who wrote that grief was so much like being concussed...Amen  CS...You got that right.``In fact,  you got a lot of things right. xo

Now I am so happy, I am going to sew after my meeting!