First snowfall of the season yesterday
Body sensing is a practice I learned very late in life, yet I recommend it to anyone who will listen. DO people listen? Of course not. In fact I don’t always listen to myself…resistence. A snow day plunks me into chairs too often, so I CAN sense stiffness creeping in. The better way is to sense the body and praise God for this gift and its relative health in my great age.
Walking Red yesterday at dusk, light snow falling, I slipped but caught myself with my cane, TYJ. Ten minutes later some dolt in a little black SUV nearly hit me. It passed between Red and me as I was stepping from mid-road to the driver’s right hand side, toward my little guy who had just bounded into a yard from there. Car went right on full speed, past the stop sign right in front of us all. So close, the near miss elicited my exclamation, “Jesus!” Hope I was calling for help, not swearing, but there it was in the air. Felt intentional, bad driving judgment rather than weather related since the driver kept going without slowing down to ask about us. Neighbor shoveling his deck on the other side of the street asked, “Did he get close enough to you?” So we exchanged opinions about the incident. This bit of talk startled and comforted me, too, because I doubt we have exchanged more than a dozen hellos in the decades we have lived so near each other. I felt gladdened by his sincere concern.
I thank my guardian angel. I do not know how I could have gotten to this age without one.
Lord, please aid the rulers this nation and all nations, even if they are all Hasnamuss, to reduce Your Sorrow and the suffering of all creatures. May I work to do my part.
Again I pray for the welfare of all my unnamed loved ones
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