Life’s Book
No matter what else you are doing
From cradle days through to the end,
You are writing your life’s secret story–
Each day sees another page penned.
Each month ends a thirty-page chapter,
Each year means the end of a part–
And never an act is misstated
Or even one wish of the heart.
Each day when you wake, the book opens,
Revealing a page clean and white–
What thoughts and what words and what doings
Will cover its pages by night?
God leaves that to you–you’re the writer–
And never a word shall grow dim,
Till the day you write the word finish
And give your Life’s Book back to Him.
Author Unknown
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Living at the CARE Center, I am surrounded by many people with health problems. Yesterday I “sat” with a convalescing husband while his wife made an emergency trip to her dentist. Hours later she enlisted helpers to get her husband into the car and started (at 9:00 PM) for Houston VA Hospital. ~~ So many residents rely on electric scooters to get from RV to CARE Center. ~~ I have a blind neighbor–and several blind residents on another street. ~~ Every day I count my many blessings that I am able to work in my yard and see the flowers and birds. (At this moment [9:15 AM], I see a female Cardinal on a feeder.)
Three Quarters & Counting 
[…] On a sad note: I’ve lost two neighbors this week to disease. A lady to liver cancer and a man to heart attack. Unfortunately, that’s what I will experience in the months (and years?) to follow living in a residential care community. That’s what I will experience because I am “three quarters and counting” (almost eighty years old). An acquaintance recently said “old age sucks” and I agree wholeheartedly!! My complaint today: Pain in my neck and shoulders from too much work last week (at the CARE garage sale). My mind says I want to do projects as though I am forty years old, my body reminds me that’s not possible. But–because I’ve followed a holistic lifestyle–I’m in much better health than many of my neighbors (praise God). Counting my blessings!! […]