“Let go of what you can’t control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.”
~ Karen Salmansohn
I haven’t been feeling my best this week, but I continued to soldier through hoping the streak would eventually break. Finally, I stopped, and spent the day doing a little healing. Good Friday was perfect for this. It is a day meant for reflection, a deepening of compassion and understanding. About 1pm I got a text from mom saying she and dad were at the VA. Last week, he’d had an abdominal ultrasound just like I’d had two weeks prior. Where they found stones in my gallbladder, they found a mass in his. He was seeing a surgeon about next steps. He’s already lost a kidney and part of his colon to cancer, so “mass” is a word we really don’t want to hear (not that anybody does). At our Good Friday lunch, his thumbs up signals that the mass was nothing. Our little trifecta continues to be blessed beyond measure, and our communion of Big Boys was exactly what the doctor ordered. I feel better. He feels better. We feel better. May you have an equally blessed Good Friday.
Prayer
(by Mark Sandlin)
Good and gracious God,
My prayer is simple.
Remind me that I AM
my brother’s keeper –
my sister’s keeper,
but I AM NOT
their judge.
Amen.
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