In our neck of the woods, the weather is still up and down as it goes from 90+ degrees one day with 100 and 103 in the garden to 70 degrees the following day.

I am not complaining, only reporting, preparing myself for late June, July, August and September knowing that we will be having heat waves.

May was a month filled with a lot of Dr. appointments and recovery.

Feeling quite a bit better today; better than I have been in quite a while.

I do hope that continues.

Josh and Deed weren’t using their treadmill anymore, so gave it to us and took the old one down to Salvation Army.  It has more bells and whistles, which I hope, eventually, to take advantage of in the near future.

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1 Chronicles 29:11  Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

So many days we get wrapped up in our selves.  There is so much to do; the ‘Tyranny of The Urgent’ that suddenly appears and makes us feel we MUST deal with it immediately takes us away from our duties, our plans, for the day.

When that happens it throws us off for the day. Yes, there are times we must hurriedly take on whatever comes up.

Most times however, if we are really prioritizing our day we realize it can be set aside, for a while, and we can go about our regular duties and take care of that situation later.

An old saying is very much worth considering and thinking about when this happens:  “Your poor planning does not make an emergency on my part.”  Many times it is someone else who puts the pressure on us, someone who could have given more time – bosses may have a pass, but, even there we can often prioritize our time.  -  Yep, I have done the ‘this needs to be done’ but when they ask if it must be done ‘right now?’ I often realized that the answer was, no.

And of course there are exceptions to the rule. Especially in my line of work, well, what used to be my line of work, responding to emergencies.

Rarely, however, do emergencies come down 24 hours a day seven days a week that take all of our energy and our thought process to complete.

But even with that into consideration, it is still up to us to prioritize our day, to plan our day out; and the very first thing we should put on our list for the day is to remember to praise our God, to thank Him for His many blessings and to meditate on His words even if it is only for a few minutes.

Doing so helps us put into perspective who we are, who God is and why our relationship with God is so important.

We don’t need elaborate phrases, we do not need prearrange prayers, what we need is to take time to be with Him and allow Him to work within our heart and soul; just talking with Him as we would any other relationship.

We have so many distractions in this world, so many things that we are ‘having’ to do that we forget that God is the most important relationship we have.

May we always take time out of our busy day to look around us and to see the many blessings we have because God is God.

Later, Art (-: