Daily Hello: and BAM! it's mid-November
Nov 12, 2007

Wow, it was suddenly autumn and it was suddenly really really busy, and BAM! now it's the middle of November. Christmas is a little over a month away. I am chomping at the bit to put up my tree and hang all the tinselee stuff, and I may or may not wait until after Thanksgiving.

So the weather turned off cold, then suddenly it warmed up again. Isn't that some kind of Indian summer or Blackberry winter or something. I can never remember all those old sayings and seasonal things.

I just know that the weather outside isn't so FRIGHTFUL as the song says it's supposed to be as Christmas approaches. Hopefully it will be very soon though. It would be very nice to have a good deep, thick, snow-ball-packing, Frosty-building, white Christmas.

Life goes on. With all it's ups and downs and loop-tah-loops... and fruity loops... and stuff. It changes as it speeds by and yet is stays exactly the same, if that makes any sense. I think I change way more than life does. There's good and bad in that, but life is life. I'll bask in the sunshine when the clouds part, I'll cry when it hurts, I'll smile when it amuses me... and I'll breathe the warmth of a hot cup of coffee with a friend when the rain falls and the world seems cold and sad.

All that matters is Christ. Loving him and assuring people how much he loves them. This life is a fleeting shadow, a moment to hold up a sign on a sidewalk, to help someone carry their groceries, to encourage them that their brief existence has a God-given purpose and significance, that they matter, that there will eventually be a definite end to it all, and yet... a fascinating, worth-the-pain, beyond imagination, eternal beginning.
I'm sure of it.

It's all good, cause we're not walking it alone.
He is always with us, to the end and on to the beginning.

(((hugs)))