Gee, I miss the sun. We've not seen it since last Thursday. 

I even strolled our new neighborhood on one of those murky, oh so very grey days and every house, even the few special ones, appeared bleak and woeful. And I didn't even feel safe--the occasional men I glimpsed all reminded me of leary-eyed guys from scary scenes in CSI shows. I even decided that from now on I'll cross the road and take the sidewalk which leads me back to my old neighborhoods where I walked for 14 years. You know, the normal single-family houses, no-apartments-anywhere streets. That's how dark, grey and foreboding my walk was that day.

What a difference the sun makes!

And just arriving here at the library this morning and finding all your cheery comments to my last post made it feel as though the sun finally sprang out from behind the clouds. So thank-you! It's great to travel here and feel as though a group of friends awaits me.

Speaking of that, I'm loving not having computer access at our house. Well, maybe not loving it, but appreciating how it is stretching me, making me more patient regarding my peeks into Computer Land. Happy to return to balance.

Sometimes you have to do extreme things to keep yourself balanced and exactly where--and how--God wants you to be. So that you can hear Him more clearly and live free enough to always be in the right places at the right time and in your right mind, as in, not distracted.

 And not sitting in a computer chair when He wanted you at the supermarket when that elderly lady needed your help.

It's never easy to die to self--to stop feeding but actually starve our weaknesses. Always, the freedom afterward makes any ripping-away pains so very worth it.


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