Gravel Road Musings

The Perennials are peeping through The Lilacs are budding There's some green grass coming through the dead stuff. The sky is an awesome color of blue.  Just awesome!!!!!!!!! It's been way too long since we had blue sky, so it's a double awesomeness. It's the season for iced coffee!!!!!!!  Yes, I just got a new camera and am determined to learn how to operate it more than just auto mode.  And Yes, I  know I have a LONG ways to go before any professionalism emerges. It's been spring in the house for awhile already as my geranium bloomed most of the winter.  It's the season for flip flops.   \\ Just more awesome blue sky Meet Gomez--the only male and the only sold puppy

How can life be so full of joy and so bound by sorrow?  The sorrow presses down and threatens to overwhelm and the joy lifts up and causes the step to be a little lighter.  Why can't all the steps be light, fluffy, joyful steps?  I know, I know; then we wouldn't grow, but the pain, the pain, it can be so painful, so tough, so depressing. The couple who looks forward to their baby only to find out halfway through that life has fled.  Yes, they know that the little one is in a better place, but still they grieve.  Tears threaten as I touch the little cold body, but joy can fill the heart when you think about the little girl in heaven with Jesus maybe playing with her uncle who went to heaven many years ago. There it is: that oxymoron of grief and joy.  Somedays, you plow through life, living in joy and then something happens and you are reminded of your loss.  And yet, while you are thinking of your loss, you are thinking of heaven's gain.  When...