Rain

It was fitting that it rained today.  Some days the weather goes right along with the mood.

Why is it that when a problem comes it seldom travels alone.  On days when there are troubles it always takes me back to the time when I was 7 and I had my apendix out.  Because my Dad was away and my poor mother, (a lot younger than I am now) didn't know what the pain in my side was - it was a while before I found myself in the hospital.  By the time they got me on the table my appendix ruptured.  This meant several days in the hospital and several hours of delirium.  But it was during that foggy, feverish time that I think I learned one of the great lessons of life.
In my daze I imagined that I was lying on the bed with my feet on bycicle pedals and between the pedels was a large ball of string.  It was my job to slowly pedal and wind the string around the ball.  No matter how hard I tried, every now and then the string would tangle.  That is life.  No matter how hard we try to keep everything going smoothly sometime life just tangles.

There is a sweet lady fighting for her life down in a hospital in Florida.  Her name is Betty, and I know her family would be grateful for any prayers that find their way up through the clouds.