God and Time...

This is a few lines from the book "Life Support" by Robert Whitlow...the book is ok but this paragraph is extraordinary...

And the Holy Spirit moved across Alex Lindale's heart It was a divine moment - a delayed response to the faith filled prayers of an Ohio farm wife who had quietly walked into the upstairs bedroom where her darkhaired granddaughter slept and asked that the child's life might one day shine with the light of Jesus Christ. The passage of a quarter of a century is less than the width of an eyelash in the perspective of eternity. All God-inspired prayers are answered in the fullness of time.

Inertia...or the pinball machine...

the ball that began rolling for ryan at the beginning of the year has been rolling faster and faster lately, and now is about to plunge into that deep dark place known as "deployment"....ick...i know that for the crowd i put on that stoic face. the one that says i can do this, no big deal. but really, its going to suck. i hate every moment that he has to be at work right now, and even more the moments i have to be at work while he is home...the last few days of him being home...and that year of darkness is yawning, it mouth opening wider, about to swallow me. i'm really not sure how i am going to make it through this one...not like there is a choice really, but i already feel battered like the ball of a pinball machine...