Blessings

This has been a week of received blessings. First of all, on Tuesday I met an old friend (well... she's not old, but we've been friends a long time). We met in 1969 when we entered nurse's training in Altoona, and haven't seen each other in probably 25+ years. Over the years we've kept in contact at Christmas and since she lives within an hour of State College and I shop there occasionally, we agreed to meet sometime over lunch. I was indeed blessed to meet her at Eat 'n Park and get "caught up" on the happenings of her life. Her husband (Hiram Westover) retired this past spring from pastoring many years in the CMA church, and she is working part-time for Hospice. Thanks, Phyllis, for making my day special.

Yesterday I was blessed by our daughter and her family. I was in the dining room when I noticed out the window that a van had parked out front of our house. A man was reaching inside the side door, retrieved a beautiful floral bouquet, and headed straight for our front door. When the doorbell rang, I opened the door and he said he had something for us. Tears came to my eyes as I opened the card to read that Joy, Wes and family had sent us these gorgeous flowers. I could hardly see the delivery man for the tears that clouded my vision; I asked him if all women cry when he hands them flowers. Thanks, Joy -- you are such a special daughter!! The flowers look so beautiful on our dining room table.

Yesterday was also John's birthday. We wanted to spend the day (or part of it) with Rahn and Trudy, but since she was in Florida helping with the household duties of their daughter-in-law after her back surgery, and didn't plan to fly home until this morning, we decided to "celebrate" the guys' birthday a day late. So we met them this morning at the Cracker Barrel in Harrisburg for brunch. What a lovely time we had! Happy 58th, John and Rahn! Only 2 more years until the big 6-0! Again, we were made aware of the rich blessings of family as we spent this time with them. We indeed are abundantly blessed!!