And the Rain Falls Down…

It seems that the rainy season has finally started. While I won’t miss having the water the plants every day, I will miss playing outside as often as what we have been.  Whether it was driving with the top down, going for a walk at the beach, or just plain old sitting in the yard sipping coffee … it was a good summer.

Seeing the rain on the window, the roads, and dripping from the trees, reminds me that I am a little sad. Not so much that summer is gone, but it reminds me of the passing time, and the time that has passed.  A lot has happened to us in the last few years, and a lot of it was not good. Losing jobs, losing our place on the beach, missing opportunities, and bad health are only a few of the troubles that have been dogging up.  Along with losing the jobs, we are in deep money troubles, and the new job hasn’t helped. Now, I am facing a decision at my work, and I am unsure what to do.  I have been at it for only a few months, and I can’t see it getting any better in the near future; as well, vacations requests have been denied, making us have to shift gears in mid-stream.  Trying to take two courses during this stressful time has been interesting, but I am coping … it is pass/fail, after all :)

On the bright side, Stefani’s work is going better than mine, although one of her clients is weird, and we are having troubles reading her.  I think she really likes Stefani, and wants to work with her, but is having troubles adjusting to Stef’s individuality … I can relate :) One thing, with Stef’s work doing so well, and mine not, when I see out of town career opportunities, it makes us think twice … do we want to leave the area, and her clients?  Something to consider …

Another bright side, my own health is great!  Not only is my back a lot better, I have been slowly and effectively losing weight.  I hadn’t really been noticing it, but after weighing myself at the doctor’s office and seeing that I was down 25 lbs (that’s back to my pre-stroke weight!), I started noticing differences:  a little more energy, clothes are getting loose, and when I am standing/walking, I can see my feet again!

I have been thinking a lot about the Kingdom of God, and while that is a topic for a different blog, on a different site, I want to leave you with this:

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt 6:25-34, NIV)

I think that is one of my favourite passages, and to me, one of the most important things Jesus ever said.

Namaste