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... and close to the heart.

A few days ago, while chatting with a friend, they asked me ‘How are you”. This wasn’t the usual ‘hihowareyouohImfinethanksforasking’. You know - The ‘Hi, How Are you? Oh I’m fine, thanks for asking’ that becomes a mouth full of words rushed out before you even open your mouth (or type in my case) to reply. This was a truly sincere question about my well being. It was like a breath of fresh air to me. Someone was really concerned enough to ask how I was doing. For that I’m grateful. Grateful, because in this day and age, the rushed mumbo jumbo reply is the norm. I told them what was going on, they said they would pray for me, and we went back to our previous conversation. That was it; two minutes of sincere inquiry. We went on to laugh and tell each other the little bits of news from our corners of the world respectively and in general had a lovely conversation.

I continued to think back over our conversation (yes, I’m one of those people that ‘replay’ every word. Weird - I know) and how their concern was truly encouraging. Lately things have been CRAY-ZAY to the 59th millionth degree. *See previous posts*

So back to my thinking things over…I began to think about ‘how I was’. I asked myself ‘How AM I’? Am I doing ok? Could things be a little better, do I need to change my attitude? And on and on… these were some questions floating through my brain.

So yes, after much reflection and many ‘quiet moments’ (moments I take once in awhile just to ‘think’… doesn’t happen very often… ask my family. No wait… don’t), I realized something.

YES – I am ok. NO – things are not easy right now. Yes – I need to change my attitude. And YES – one day I’ll probably laugh, or at least smile, about all of this. But for right now, I’ve decided that I’m doing just fine.

I’ve decided that I’m going to be content no matter what happens and to give thanks ‘IN’ everything. (Philippians 4:11 and 1 Thessalonians 5:18)