2006 A Year of Drastic Change

     Whew! 2006 was an eventful year. Sadly, many were on the down side. UMDNJ issues continue to come up and people that I know and care about are hurt beyond repair. A friend of a number of years in very ill, it hurts to see her like this. She is amazinly strong in mind and in will. I will not be seeing my senior as often as I have been, she recently became a resident of a nursing home. Now I have two friends in a care facility. Yesterday while out I saw a bag of chocolate cookies and was tempted to buy them for my senior. By the way, she (my senior) is no longer the oldest person I know, last month I met a woman 102 years old. Yesterday while visiting my friend, I noted that the woman was the most focused and one of the most able-bodied folks at the nursing home. I have not been to see my senior yet, it will be difficult to get to her new home. I'm just just trying not to lose balance here. 

So many other things have been going on that I told a friend that I felt that I was being tested, I meant it when I said it, but today is a better and brighter day. Fortunately, I have remained healthy and fit enough to stay in stride with everything going on around me. Plus I think I have finally found a church that I like and can relate to. I attended a couple of services when my senior had Sunday morning visitors. My reason for liking this church? In early December they had a collection tables right outside of  the Pathmark Supermarket entrance in South Orange. You saw them as you walked in and knew that they would be there when you walked out. How could you not buy something extra to place in the church basket? For some reason this not only touched me it made me laugh out loud. I did buy their suggested "Christmast dinner" product and continued to smile while I was shopping :-)  I have not joined yet, but I suspect that I will.

Mmm--maybe that's why I was moved by Joel Osteen service the other day.