DIFFERENT

Hello again, blog readers!  It appears I am finally off my hiatus or whatever you choose to call my long lapse in posting.    I credit the lapse to multiple, multiple doctors' appointments for the multiple, multiple folks I accompany to the doctor, a mind that is so very full of "stuff" that needs doing, a body that is so weary of doing that "stuff", and just plain simple distraction.  Truth.  It's a rare year when I miss making my Thanksgiving post.  Does that mean I'm not thankful?  No, it's just "different" for me.  My thanks to my Savior for all HIS blessings is just different that I didn't blog voice them this year....the thanks is unchanged and still remains sincere.  Happily, Jesus knows that.  

So here I am again.  Finally.   

The Christmas season held a lot of sickness for those I love most....two cases of covid, one for The Husband and one for The Son-In-Law, and another case of walking pneumonia for The Grandbaby.  They were sick.  In our almost 46 years of marriage, I can never remember The Husband having a fever of 103+.  Now I know he has.   As we say in the South, bless.    Thankfully all are recovered.

I knew after The Parents moving to Assisted Living that this year would be "different" in many ways and I knew probably those who moved would not enjoy it at all.  You see, they don't like "different".   The thing that's hard to understand is that though things SEEM different, the only thing really changed is their location.  And it's a nice, good location.  Their physical and mental healths are "different" now, but the fact that they are my parents remains unchanged.  

I was thinking that is how many things in life are.  Many areas of life have "life" that comes and makes things totally "different" from what we considered normal.  I voiced just yesterday how Covid changed the world those years ago in many ways with that "different" virus that required quarantine and masks and fear.  Now Covid is here and it's not really "different" anymore, just a virus like so many others.  But man did it make life "different"?  For sure.

Faces we love may be absent and that's different, be them moved up to heaven or just absent.  Grocery prices are "different" and that's not good for anybody, but it's still a fact that folks have to eat.  So we either accept the "difference" or we make the "different" okay or better.  

Just remember as this years progresses, we will encounter different daily.  We must remember that often different and change have their places.  Just to prove my thought process, if I keep in mind that if I rolled along just the same day after day after day, I might not have had The Grandbaby in my life.  What a despair that would be!  Sometimes things being "different" allows things to be better!  Different and change is not always for the worse.  

So for this first post of 2025 after my hiatus,  I'm sure I have you totally confused.  Just remember with all the "differents" and "changes", love and blessings and Jesus remain unchanged.  That's the BIG deal!