On our Perspective of Time...

I have received a healthy dose of the perspective of time this past weekend... When we have something that needs to be done we say next year or next month or in six months pretty freely and it does not seem or feel like it is too far off really. But when we are looking into the face of a family member or a friend or loved one and we say that we will see them in six months or so... well, let me just tell you that it seems terribly long and it feels like half of a lifetime not just half of a year. Goodbyes are very hard and they have begun...

  

Chocolate Chip Cookie was stung 4 times by bees, twice on one ankle, once on the other ankle, and once on her little thumb at about 4pm-ish Sunday afternoon. It hurt extremely much when it happened and really it hurt her quite a bit for what seemed like a very long time but then it seemed to stop hurting altogether. On Monday morning when I asked her how her bee stings felt, she said, "What bee... oh, they're fine."

  

The two youngest Cookies were Baptized on Sunday along with their cousin. Mr. Cookie and I are now  proud Godparents! I have never been a Godparent before, but I know that God will help us teach our little one's in the way they should go, especially if we strive to be like Jesus ourselves.

And one final thought... God has His own sense of time as anyone waiting for Jesus to return knows...