The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day...Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

I had the extreme luxury of an hour to myselft this evening. After my audio conference at the hospital with the Stephen Ministers I knew I did not have to get home to make dinner because my husband teaches a night class tonight.

I went to the mall!?!?! And then dropped off some photos to be printed to send to Aunt Evelyn of our visit.

I had an hour to myself...I went to the book store and had a really hot coffee....mmmmmmmmmm and pulled some Somerset Magazines off the shelf to browse thru and just so enjoyed a whole hour in total luxury!

We have been so busy of late, beginning with Christina Marie's baptism the first weekend of September...

Shawn and Tessa's wedding...

Brady and Rusty's wedding ...

the trip to see Aunt Evelyn and Joan and John, and Amy and Vince...

Frank's graduating seniors dinner this week

and then John's dad's funeral.

It actually felt good today to do regular household errands!

Dry cleaning, and paying bills, and picking up the gift for Chris and Lydia's wedding tomorrow!?

I ran into a friend in the funeral home parking lot and made a date for lunch next week! I was pulling out she was pulling in and when we passed each other we just stopped, rolled down our windows and asked each other with such concern if everything was okay?! What are you doing here?!?? 

I was picking up table cloths that were forgotten after the dinner the other night she was picking up a check for some design work she had done.........whew!  But what if?

What if she or I had  reason other than 'business' to be there? It happens.

Unexpectedly like Carolyn's brother...and John's dad.

I see it with my hospital people.

I met someone just yesterday whose mother I had visited in the hospital when I mentioned that to her and asked how she was, she told me that she had died. In August...

I see it with my hospice people. I had a first visit with a man two weeks ago and then I missed a week while in NJ, NYC...

and when I went this week, he had changed so much.

He couldn't rouse himself to try to sit up, he tried...but he was too tired, he didn't even talk, he just looked for a moment and smiled with his eyes and fell back into his sleep.

And yet we live our lives so ordinarily, so extraordinarily bus...doing...making plans...buying gifts...preparing for events...living...

It could end in a moment...or like these weddings and babies it is the beginning of a whole new life..

Each day beginning, ending, and living each precious moment with God.