Lucy thinks she's human.

Angels and answered prayers.

Today I was blessed with an answer to an online plea for help.
My cousin asked about my phone and offered a phone card.
I am learning to accept with grace and ask when there is need.
I have repaired three computers and have several opportunities coming up.
Remember there are angels all around.

Mountain high.

I had forgotten about this account through the vagaries and trials of life.
I am now striving to return to the worlds of Society and Normal.
Several years ago I was riding home from work on my bicycle. I was struck from behind by a vehicle so that my 18-speed and I were inverted when my chin hit their windshield.
Being a " local drunk" the deputy took me to the jail, apparently thinking I am talented enough to not only crash in a way that bent my REAR wheel, but to do so without any road-rash.
I had conversations and interactions I do not remember because I had a concussion. (Assumed)
I doubt many releases have been accomplished as quickly once I woke up and asked," I was run over by a car. Why am I the one in jail?"
As I have done through my life I buried the pain and the anger and continued as if I were okay.
In December 2010 something "popped" in my back while pulling grass from a client's yard with an iron rake. At first the experience was one of pressure behind the base of my sternum.  I was taught to call it the "solar plexis" , but the young lady at the ER was stumped. It felt as if a fist were jammed under my ribs. At that point I was still not "feeling" the pain.  I proceeded through the next two years to learn about the skeletal-nervous interfaces and how they can be damaged.
* to be continued *
B-)

Sailing without a boom.

I have been thinking of the idea of surrender and selfless service lately. The words are used often within the circles I frequent, but there are many different understandings of the meaning and principle of the words.

Surrender to means complete release of everything under one's control. On an individual level, I can only control my actions and reactions to life. On a societal level I can change many factors of the environment and "theme" of the interactions which are generally referred to as 'Life'.

The bag of marbles represents my actions and reactions as I proceed through each day. My will is the choices I make before, during, and as the result of each of those interactions. My life is the sum total, or 'narative' of the interactions and the resulting reactions I receive from those actions. When I surrender to the will of God, the Higher Power in my life, the One Who Has All Power, I am handing over the whole bag of marbles, and accepting the ones that I am given to play with, rather than attempting to choose. When I cease attempting to BE the God of my Life, and Choose my Actions with an attempt to do the correct thing according to my understanding of the Will of God through my study of the Word of God and the collected learning of those with whom I interact, I have faith in the belief that God, as He has revealed Himself to me, will guide me and that the intuitive feeling of "right and wrong" IS God's way of telling me what "the Next Right Thing" to DO will be, or is in the moment of Decision.