Welcome to a new week – and a new month!
Here are a few of my thoughts that are rattling around in my head this morning.
* October can be a beautiful month here. I hope it will be this year! We have my daughter’s outdoor wedding planned for the 20th. Fingers crossed that it will be a beautiful fall day in the lowcountry! No more hurricanes and no more flooding, please.
* I usually love football in the fall. This year I am not into it as much as I have in the past. Why? I’m not sure. I guess both the teams I usually root for, the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Carolina Panthers, are not very stellar this year and it’s hard to sit and watch them play. It’s painful sometimes. I find myself rooting for the Cleveland Browns though since they are such underdogs. Yesterday they came soooo sooo close to winning again.
* This week will continue to be interesting with the Kavanaugh hearing and investigation. Will more come out about his past? Will some things he said be dismissed? Will game playing continue? (Oh yes it will.) I have not changed my thoughts on it. See the blogpost before this one. I had a guy I don’t know call me stupid online yesterday because I supported Dr. King and I felt Judge Kavanaugh had a drinking issue as a teenager.
* Today is the one year anniversary of the massacre in Las Vegas during the country music concert. I bring it up only because I think we can’t forget, and we can’t just talk about mass shootings when they happen and then forget when they don’t. My heart goes out to the survivors and to the families of those who didn’t. I pledged awhile ago to continue to work for better gun laws, tighten requirements for gun ownership, have longer background checks, and more. I will NOT give up on the possibility that the American psyche about gun ownership CAN change.
* I feel today for some friends who had to put their dog down last week and are so sad and dealing with an ‘empty house’ right now. I think about the quote I read some time back about God making turtles live for over a hundred years but dogs only 10 to 15 years. It just doesn’t make sense. But, I guess God knows that days are precious and each one is valuable.
* The upcoming wedding: I will write more after the big day. Right now I am doing the smaller details as we move closer day by day. But, I have noticed some addresses were old ones and I feel bad for the people who did not get invited in a timely manner. It was not meant as an exclusion. In this age of computer and online communication, we don’t keep current with mailing addresses as we should. I’m sending out some last minute emails… sorry.
* I just read this post back. Is it too negative??? Yikes! Monday mornings should be more uplifting! Really! I’m ready for the week ahead. I look forward to my quilting group at church this afternoon. I’m excited to be seeing my grand sons this week!!! And, I have music rehearsals this week.
Here’s a positive note to end on…
As I sad earlier, last week our community had great fear of devastating floods coming at us. We were in a waiting game that was tense. But, so many people – locally, and beyond our area – came and cared. We had the National Guard here. We had police from other towns and other states. The American Red Cross set up shelters. Neighbors watched out for other neighbors. Young people filled sand bags. Lots of people donated food to first responders and others. We ended up dodging the big bullet. Yes, we had some flooding – but not nearly as distructive as it could have been. Many prayed. In fact, I even got a letter from the pastor of the church my daughter attends. He wrote that we were included in their worship prayers – 45 people there praying for us. Who knows how many more did… thousands I’d guess. Prayer heard? Perhaps. Thanks be to God for all the good that did come from it all.
Have a wonderful week ahead….
All for now.
Marla’s Musings 