Sweetness

I stared at blogs for hours last night. It's like I want some peace from external sources; like pithy, emotion-inducing, witty comments might make it better; it's like I can't focus and want some words to draw me back towards sanity. I don't want to do that tonight, so I'm writing now, while I'm finishing up work, so the only thing I do tonight is shop for M's graduation computer. Which definitely needs to be purchased!

Some sweet things I want to remember....
1) Doing backbends with Beth on tornado day, and surprising myself that I could still do them;
2) Doing ab exercises with K and her friend J on tornado day, again surprising myself that I was actually pretty decent;
3) Praying with sweet friends at church in a small group, including Jimmy, Lowell, Monica, and the girls;
4) Mom and Dad pretty much begging me to visit them while I had no power;
5) Getting help from the ex and from my co-worker while working at Sandra's house;
6) Being fed by a church that had its building really jacked up in the storm;
7) Getting texts, emails, IMs, and phone calls from so many friends starting the day of the storm through the weekend. I got phone calls from my ex-mother-in-law, my sisters' two mothers-in-law, and then got made fun of by Beth because I have no mother-in-law of my own - have to laugh about that;
8) Seeing people drive carefully and with patience, knowing our town's upside down in that regard;
9) Witnessing the giving of time, money, and love in mass proportions; and being able to help my friends Allen and Diane who went above and beyond last year helping me move;
10) Knowing I was with my girls through much of this, and when I wasn't, Beth had them well in hand.

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.