The weather outside is frightful...

But the fire is so delightful....so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Well, the weatherman was right, believe it or not!  We got about 4 inches of snow yesterday and it's beautiful!  We have all been sick with something for about 2 weeks now and it doesn't seem to want to go away.  Since we don't go to Drs. we have to try and guess what is wrong.  I diagnosed mine as pneumonia, since my symptoms were a bit different from Tommy and John boy.  My friend (who is a surgeon) and another friend (who is a nurse) tended to agree with me.

We have an online pharmacy so I ordered a Z-Pack (which my two friends also recommended...after I had gotten it) so think I am now on the other side.

I am rarely sick, so I tend to whine a bit (to myself) when I DO get sick.  This time I started thinking about a recent sermon of Tommy's, which he preached in NC to a lot of the flood victims a week after the flood.  "In all things give thanks".  

Every time I started to feel sorry for myself, I gave thanks.  I thanked God that it wasn't worse.  I thanked Him that I wasn't bedfast.  I thanked him for medicine and that I didn't have to go to a Dr. to get it.

I also prayed for many, whom I know personally, who are going through situations much worse than what I am going through.  

I remember a movie we saw when we lived in NYC.  It came to a tiny little "artsy" theatre on Broadway....down around 70th, if I remember.  They only showed kind of weird, off the wall movies.   We went there to see a movie called "Life is Beautiful" about a man in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany who kept his son hidden in the camp throughout the war.  He made it seem like they were playing a game. 

Often, when I start to feel sorry for myself, I think about that man.  He never looked glum or depressed.  He always had a smile on his face.

The world may throw you a curve ball. It often does.  How we deal with that curve ball, is up to us.  We can say---oh, a curve ball.  I'll just let that one go over the plate.  Or, we can hit it out of the park...or, hit a few snowballs out of the park!

Hope you hit a few home runs today!  Happy Snow!!!!