SUDDENLY

I am at peace today.  After taking Lil Miss to school this morning, I went to the Post Office to pick up personal mail.  The Church Bells chimed eight times.  It's a pleasant sound to me.  Then took a short drive about this very small community I live in with the car window's down to breath in the cooler air at 66 degrees.  Deep and satisfying breaths.

As I walked across the lawn at home, a peaceful and gentle coo came forth from a soft grey dove sitting on the telephone pole.  Looking upwards, I thought I believe that these doves are my favorite birds on the planet.  Coo coo.  Dear God, Thank you for such a sight and sound. 

You know how it feels to be waiting and waiting and waiting for something to take place.....then SUDDENLY it does?  The anticipation wears off as you realize it is finished.  It is done.  Last week, the road barricade at the end of the block by the railroad crossing dissappeared.  After there was a truck that was stuck on the tracks as a train plowed through the trailer accident, the city put a road block across RAILROAD Street to where you could not drive your vehicle down the road.  The road block SUDDENLY disappeared on a day that it blissfully rained.  It was a much welcolmed surprise.

Daughter was driving and we noticed...the road block was gone.  She got giddy as she drove her auto down the road.  We hicks here in Kansas get excited over the little pleasures in life, so we went around the block to drive the road again.  The simple pleasures of life count for something.  Sigh.

This week the City took action at the intersection that sits outside my property.  They are doing road repairs to replace rough road surface.  We have lived in this present house 5 and a half years.  Countless times, the City had grated this street to try and smooth out the rough spots.  I had thought I wish they'd just properly repair the road with new asphalt instead of grating the road.  Their road machines were noisy and didn't have good results.  Whaalaah.....she is getting a face lift this week.  Later this morning, the workers will be back to continue the repairs.  Several large trucks have silently sat over night as to protect the newly dug hole in the street.  SUDDENLY she will be finished.

Last week, I retired from being a Granny Nanny.  Lil Miss has started her academic career.  My Daughter was home to take Lil Miss to her first day of school.  This is something that Daughter did not want to miss as a employeed single momma.  With my sister visiting us, we took Lil Miss to her second day of school and this week I have the honors of seeing her off to school and picking her up afterwards.  SUDDENLY I am alone in the house.  SUDDENLY I have free time to leisurely do my households chores, do Bible Reading, Pray and think in the silence of my home.

SUDDENLY I feel like a new woman changing jobs and direction.

I have enjoyed tending to a Grandchild for the last four and a half years and then SUDDENLY she is in school.  The house is quiet.  The window is open.  A train is passing by.  I am blogging while sipping coffee.  A load of laundry is washing.  The dishes are done.  I have sighed and taken a deep breath. 

It has been a very busy 4 and a half years.  Very busy.  I welcome the slow down.  SUDDENLY things have changed.  SUDDENLY. 

Do you know what it is like to have no free time to yourself day after day after day after day?  To have absolutely no time to sit alone to think?  To have little time to unwind and relax?  I do.  It has been a tough assignment for me....but God got me through it.  Thank you, Lord.  This week, SUDDENLY the house is quiet and I have some free time. 

The last 4 and a half years, it has been a very very very busy time and a growing time for me as well.  I have had great moments of happiness with joy babysitting and great moments of my emotions being pulled in every direction.  It has not been an easy assignment for me as a middle aged mother to have a grown child come home broken hearted with a 9 month old baby and go through a unwanted divorce because her husband did not want to be married anymore nor be a father, did not want counseling nor be a responsible grown man.  $17 dollars to her name with rent coming due, utilities due, few groceries or baby food in the house, no formula, a few diapers, bills needing paid, etc.

My husband and I provided a soft place for her to land as best we could to help her on her healing journey.  We have learned a great deal about life and the fallen nature of mankind.  It has not been a picnic.  It has been a life changing time. 

Daughter is healing.  She is an awesome mom.  She contributes a great deal to our lives and blesses us with her love, giving heart and groceries.  She fixes some wonderful meals and helps with chores about our home.  She is a huge blessing.  Her Daughter is a delight to be around.  Full of energy, questions and opinions.  Both girls are God's handiwork that blesses many. 

If you are going through trying times....may God help you as you look to Him for answers.  SUDDENLY, He will help and make sense out of all the messes that are out there.

This week I have had what I call Therapy With The Lord.  I prayed ernestly in the quiet of the Parlour.  After I return home from taking Lil Miss to school, I return to my home and visit with the Lord, Pray and read a chapter in Proverbs and Psalms.  Whatever day it is, is the Chapter I read.  Then I turn some contemporary Christian Music on that I haven't listened to since I lived on the Farm.  SUDDENLY there is peace.

Following this time, I am free to do my business, eat Lunch, do some chores.  Then SUDDENLY it is time to pick up Lil Miss from school, have a chat, a snack, a short nap before her momma returns from work.

Today after I have my Therapy With The Lord, I will take a soaking bath, do some laundry, work on bills....  I'm treating myself.

According to the Cruden's Complete Concordance that I have, the word SUDDENLY is found in the Bible close to 37 times. 

The King James Bible states in ACTS 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as if a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

SUDDENLY.....what a wonderful word.

I pray that you are doing well.  So glad you popped in for a visit.

SUDDENLY,
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