Heading South

 No alarm.   We stayed in bed until we woke on our own.  It took about 1 1/2 to get up and finish tasks before 8 and heading to Texas.  The road to Harlan was icy, but now as we are closer to interstate 80 the roads are dry.   Denny did a great job of packing.  We can see out the back window.  Of course we are never quite sure which bag (put in any thing we may be looking for) is in.   Lord, grant us safety.  Jensens are in Pokara during the Christmas break and the whole family has been parasailing.  Amazing!!!  We stopped to stay at Cleburne at a Hampton around 8:30.  We ate at Chili's  On the car ride Denny drove the whole way.  I put some collage pictures together and we listened to a 2 hour book by Grisham.

Me: Hey God.   God: Hello, My love.   Me: The world is completely out of control!   God: I know.  It's such an adventure, right?     Me: No!  It's like being on a runaway train!  I need to feel like I am in control of my life.     God: You want to be in control?      Me: Yes!    God: You are living on a spinning wet rock of a planet that resides next to a constantly exploding fireball in the middle of an ever-expanding universe that is filled with mysteries beyond your wildest imagination.   Me: Um, okay....     God: And on this planet that you are hurtling through the great expanse in - you are coexisting with billions of other people who have free-will and their own experiences that shape their perspectives and beliefs.     Me: Yeah...?         God: And while all this is going on your soul is residing in a physical body that is such a miracle of delicate engineering that at any given moment could produce its last heartbeat.      Me: Right...     God: What is it about your existence that you think you have any control of?     Me: Um…     God: Come on - you know the answer to this.  What can you control?     Me: How kind I am to people?     God:  Yep and one other thing.    Me:  What's that?     God: How kind you are to yourself.  Aside from that - most of everything else is a bit outside of your design.      Me: That's a bit terrifying...    God: All great adventures are!     ~ john roedel (johnroedel.com)