I've been awake off and on since 4 am....anxious thoughts webbed in and out of my dreams as I thought and prayed for my kids.
I thought once the children were grown "things" would get easier. My heart is with all of them as I listen to them talk about their daily doings and anxious moments. I know "things" will get easier but because I've traveled similar moments of their path, I know we all have to go through the growing pains. And, yet my heart yearns to make it better, easier, somehow shield them from their anxiety. So I will continue to pray.
Today I will take another step into knowing more about myself and my spirituality. What is spirituality? What does it mean to me and my life? I'm very excited to meet with several women to discuss the need we all thirst for and how we can help each other quench it.
Today I will also walk into Grace Place. This is be a day care Alzheimers' facility where I feel I'm being called to volunteer. I'm going with an agenda though .... 1) I will view it as a safe place to take my mom a few days a week, getting her out of the house and into a place that understands the disease and will guide her to do activities that may keep her mind from slipping so quickly; 2) I hope to be able to work in the library; 3) I hope to learn more about this dreadful disease that is more than my siblings and I seem to be able to wrap our arms around; 4) I hope that this will allow some other times to see my mother.
Today I will get a haircut....not too short....as I'm still satisfied with the length of it.
Today I will try a recipe... one of my mother's....I will begin Volume II of De Las Rosas....
Lots to do and so I must go as the spirit is moving and my anxious thoughts need to be given away.....for nothing is impossible!
