Fully Alive!

The glory of God is man fully alive! (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)  Fully alive!  That's how I felt riding my bike in the middle of the afternoon today. It was a twenty minute ride to my massage therapist on country roads.  Then,  another ten minutes to pedal up to the Lakeland Hills Town Center to make a bank deposit, and right across from the bank I indulged in a light lunch from Starbucks - - - crackers, cheese, apple slices, and craisins & nuts.  It felt decadent to bask in the sun during this in-between season of autumn . . . not the heat of summer nor the barrenness of winter.  And, a sunny day without rain is always something to celebrate where I live.  If not now, then when?!

TODAY DAD WAS . . .

FRIGHTENED  There is a rat in my pocket!  I can't get it out.

HELPFUL  I can load the dishwasher!

CONFUSED   We need to hurry so we can get to church! I don't want to be late.  (Uh, Dad, church was two days ago)

PROUD  I fell down yesterday.  Look . . . and he pulls up his pant leg to show me his skinned knee.

UNSURE  How do I make it flush? 

TENDER  Will you give me a kiss?

SCARED  I didn't know where my mother was.  I thought she forgot to pick me up  . . .  when I met him at the shuttle after he spent an afternoon at Memory Day Care.

KIND  Now, it's my turn to push you!  ... after a block of me pushing him in his wheelchair around his neighborhood.



Even though it's a bittersweet season, I am grateful to spend moments with him.  


What whispers in the moment, shouts in the memory!    (Thanks, Dale, for reminding me of this at Gold  last week!  www.soulation.org )