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Rolling Away the Stone

I was struck by the sermon Elastigirl gave on Sunday, challenging us to roll away the stone in front of our secret dark areas in order to let Jesus Christ walk in and make it clean. Immediately, I knew what area of my life needs to have the Light of Christ deal with the anger, shame, jealousy, and victim stance. Visualized opening that cave for Him to deal with...No huge changes noticed but just the knowledge that I can not deal with it alone, and I no longer have to...oddly enough, just the visualization that the cave is now empty and clean. What a blessing!

Random thoughts

It has been a beautiful Texas late winter day - with sunshine and temperature in the 60's. Cold front and rain tomorow. Oh well, we don't get bored with our weather this time of year! (Just in the blistering summer.)

Our rector has been nominated for suffragan bishop - he would be great for the diocese but such a loss to my parish! The Holy Spirit will no doubt sort this one out. He has been my parish priest for over 16 years, been through the good and the bad with the Texan and me. It sure would be hard to get used to a new priest, but I know that it will have to be done sooner or later.

Thanks to Elastigirl's Mr. Incredible for his help in understanding the Ex's medical condition. I passed his information and recommendation on to my wonderful Lawyer Girl who is the Kid on Location with this one.

The Texan did absolutely fabulous at church today - no walker even! But he has slept the entire afternoon away so has taken in no water this afternoon. One of my jobs is being Keeper of the Water Intake. Enough water in, bladder healthy; not enough, risk of making another ER room visit. Drink, Drink, keep Drinking!

Enough of being indoors. I am going to take the little bitty Guard Dogs for a walk.

Snow Day!

Here in Texas we deal with snow by pretending that it is catastrophic and shutting everything down. Evidently it is cheaper to do this than to buy snow plows, snow melting products etc. We had a whale of a snowstorm yesterday! Thunder, 6-9 inches of snow in Denton County, blinding snow, etc. I left right after my class about 12:45, headed onto the freeway, and travelled home at about 15 miles per hour on the normally frantic interstate. No accidents, just folks driving carefully on the snow.
We love snow days in Texas; they are always an unexpected treat for someone who is considerd "nonessential personnel."

So the Texan gets to sleep late this morning with our dogs snuggled in with him; our caregiver is stuck at her other job; I get to play on the computer; and life is good. Thank you for all your prayers for the Ex et al.

Prayers Please!

I found out yesterday that my ex-husband has been diagnosed with spindle cell carcinoma, which means that he has four or five very large cancerous tumors throughout his body. He is in a great deal of pain. He had a heart transplant 7 years ago and had done extremely well. However, because of the immunosupressant drugs he needed, he was much more vulnerable to cancer. He meets with the oncologist today to see what they recommend. Please pray for Scott, his wife Gail, and our children Ben and Meghan. He is an important member of our family.

Relief, maybe?

Today I talked to my direct supervisor and asked to be relieved of one course this fall. I am already carrying more courses than other university liaisons in Texas and it was doable for the first few years. I have struggled with it but it is no longer doable once they doubled the size of the class. I have had health issues for the last two fall semesters and don't want one this fall. My supervisor said she would do what she could to relieve me. Here's hoping (fingers crossed).

This evening I am going to go caucus for my candidate. I love it when my vote can count twice!

Praying for Guidance

I have come to a realization that I no longer have much enthusiasm for my job, nor does it seem likely that I will regain it. Enthusiasm is necessary since a very important part of the job is to recruit new social workers into working for CPS. I have been highly effective in the past, but not for the last year or so. Although this position pays extremely well and has great flexibility, I do not feel that I am wise to keep on going. I have had several health-related issues in the past 18 months, which seem to indicate that I need to leave the pressure of this behind. On the other hand, I have set my finances up in such a way that I will work for 3-4 more years. My working has allowed me some freedom in that I can afford a caregiver for the Texan 5 mornings a week. I cannot trade the pressure of working for the pressure of having his fulltime care and feeling trapped. That is not good for our marriage. So...what to do? Just naming the problem is a first step. Please pray for guidance for me, and that God will make my path clear.