blessed!

I am feeling particularly blessed these days. We've moved into our son's beautiful home and are enjoying all the comforts of living in this land! Darrell has been working non-stop fixing up things around here. He does it with great joy since it's kind of an anchor for our family and a feeling of having a place we can call a "permanent residence". We've never had that in all our years of marriage & ministry! The car parked in our driveway was given to us to use for this 6 months by the men's group in our district. Yes, we are very blessed indeed. I recently celebrated another birthday and received about 100 greetings on Facebook from friends all over the world. We went out to a wonderful Thai restaurant and my son brought me flowers; carried them all the way from downtown Chicago on the train. What a sweetheart he is:) We feel totally unworthy of all God's goodness in our lives these days. Looking forward to a week at the beach with our daughter and son-in-law is another great blessing. All I can say is life lived with God is amazing and I feel sorry for those who haven't figured that out yet. I know friends and loved ones who are suffering right now and believe me, I've been around long enough to know that it's not all fun and games in this life! As the song says "He gives and takes away, my heart will choose to say, blessed be the name of the Lord."