Kijiji and More

Beth at Ishouldbefoldinglaundry is giving away a $100 gift card to Kijiji which is eBay’s free, family-friendly, local classifieds site. I just spent about a half hour browsing the site and it does seem to have everything.

Thanks for your prayers and thoughts during this difficult time for us. One of our sons is now back from the live fire training which went well. He goes back in the field for, I think, two weeks tonight. The other one is just stepping into the evil place which is alive with IEDs and enemies intent on killing anybody they can, be they civilians, police personnel, or soldiers from other countries trying to bring peace to their land. That's the last thing they want. These are the same animals that chortle with delight over the destruction they caused on 911.

The events that shook our world after my dad's funeral continue to wreak havoc in our lives and someday I'll write about them but not yet. We're all praying for a good outcome but it will be years before we know if that will happen.

Once again, I'm grateful for your positive thoughts and prayers.

What It Does To You When Life Throws You A Curve

As I discussed in my last post, we lost my dad this week. It was as unexpected as the death of a 95-year-old can be. He was a long way from 'in great health' but we thought he had at least a year or two left. (His dad lived to be 100.) Anyway, I called that 'Life Throwing Me A Curve". But life wasn't done throwing curves there.

After the funeral we had two cataclysmic, completely unexpected, defying all odds events that have left us all reeling. Beth briefly alluded to them here but felt she couldn't discuss them in detail. And I can't either. Just trust me when I say that it rocked our world and probably will for a long time. I'm sorry to be so obtuse but there's no choice. The reason I'm bringing it up at all is that I need some help.

One of my daughters today pointed out that when something happens that somehow you felt some immunity to, it leaves you feeling vulnerable to a lot of terrible things in life that you were hopeful couldn't or wouldn't touch you. And you feel uneasy all the time. The unexpected might be just around the corner after all.

So with one son in the middle of live-fire training out in the field for the entire week and the other son heading for a terrible place where the evil people there find increasingly cowardly ways to kill our sons, brothers, friends, etc. I'm looking for your prayers.

You can't beat the power of prayer and I'm asking for yours. Please pray for our boys and for all the boys in dangerous situations even when they're not deployed. Please help make this uneasy feeling go safely away not just for me but for all the moms, wives, sisters, and girlfriends of these brave guys.