Week away

So grateful that I’m free to go away for days at a time and spend time with close family. Family are so supportive and make no demands of me and I feel safe and secure and loved. Love my three adopted children more than they can ever know - hopefully I tell them and show them enough. So good to have friends who can show me other perspectives on life - met someone today who taught me sign language alphabet and how to lip read - great fun but really difficult - makes you more appreciative of how deaf people can struggle. Love social media - well the bits I can do - keeps me in touch with family and friends. Great to meet up with a university mate from decades ago and it’s as though we’ve never been apart - he was a mathematician (someone has to be) and now a mental health counsellor. Glad I can start doing a little more driving now that back starting to improve (all seemed to start after prayer from church leaders although very much aware of other folks good wishes and potential alternative “therapies”) - and anyway who needs a fancy car when you have a brother who will drive you anywhere lying flat in the back of his car. Grateful to have spent some quality time with my mum - love her. Love some (but not all) sayings on Facebook that can sometimes really help “focus and be thankful for the good things that you have rather than what you don’t have”. I have a good bunch of folk in local church - most of whom I don’t really know - one lady while I was away said she had been praying and a specific verse came to mind from John 13v7 which felt was for me “You don’t understand yet the meaning of what I’m doing, but soon it will be clear to you.” Friend of mine who has been homeless/wandering for nearly 10 years has now got a flat of his own - he is overjoyed and his excitement/enthusiasm is so infectious. What a lovely friend I have who has a bag of books ready for me - I am so grateful that she has helped me gain a joy of reading !!