Around, around, around she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows...

My stomach is sommersaulting horribly, and I've only been up for 10 minutes. I'm hoping it decides to settle down soon. Thankfully, I don't have work this week (Poor Harmony got stuck with my hours) so I can take today to rest, after I get through my 8:30. Well, until my 1pm, anyway.

Outside of physical...difficulties...I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm not a mother, I'm a friend, and even if I was I still wouldn't be able to solve everything. So I'll be praying and I'll be here for those who want an ear to listen or a shoulder to cry on, but I'll try not to intrude. I know there's sometimes a reasong for those private walls, and I'll respect that. I love you guys. Take care of yourselves.

In Other Words 2

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by a rope over the precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? ....Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
~C. S. Lewis.~

"No man is a fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
~Jim Elliott, missionary~

"If you're not close enough to get hurt, you're not close enough to make a difference in someone's life."
~John Lastinger~

"I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown'; and he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way!'"
From a Christmas Message delivered by King George VI 1939

"You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that his silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will."
~Oswald Chambers~

"Sorrows shared, sorrows halved"
~Shakespeare~

"I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness
that I can show to any fellow creature. Let me do it
now. Let me not differ or neglect it, for I shall not
pass this way again."
~Stephen Grellet~