Mama, Corrina, and I had planned another ‘Fridays with Mama’ visit on what would have been the first or second Friday of July, not long before things took a turn for the worse.
I’ve had a lot of health issues during this past year, and now that I seem to be over them, something else has taken their place. I have had a sneezing fit for the past two weeks that I’ve never experienced before. Every time I sneeze, it is in triplets.
One of the first lessons we have to learn about faith is that if you want to build your faith, then, “go where faith is.”This past week we did just that.Or – perhaps better said – we went where it is very easy to build your faith: On an epic journey up to Isabelle Glacier in Colorado’s Indian Peaks...
I am not given to complaining, except when I’m awake. That’s according to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage.Lately, I’ve been leaning towards a complaining attitude. I’ve reached the point of being an old geezer.
“Popman,” Cheyenne said, “I’ve been meaning to ask you something for a while. I’ve been thinking on it, and I’m not sure I have the exact answer.”“All right.”“When you boil it down, who, is this story about?
One thing I have learned in life is there are times when things DO come together.For the last several months, I have been struggling to keep up with my schedule.That is always frustrating for me.
“Two things I can say about the summer of ’73 Cheyenne,” I said, “it definitely gave me a taste of some good downhome humor, and it gave me some tough skin, too,” and then I added with a smile the biblical, “and the last more than the first.”Cheyenne laughed.
This week, I had to do something I hadn’t done before: go to the bank and deal with fraud in my checking account.Someone tried to write a check for $1800 from my account.Fortunately, I didn’t have that much money in my account, and I was a little provoked by this incident.
The red bird perched on the rock, its heart throbbing, captured the moment, as Corrina and I sat talking by the creek until the shadows fell over the water.