The Dalai Lama & reunion

Thanks to my daughter-in-law, Shannen (who "rocks the internet") we are going to see the Dalai Lama on Thursday. I am very excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will tell you all about it.

And on Friday, Jim and I are leaving for my sister's ranch to get ready for the family reunion. Yes there is another family reunion. This one is just my parents children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Yes, there are great-great-grandchildren. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone. All my kids are coming, which means I get to see the ones who live far away one more time this year. Yeah!!!! It's like Christmas in Sept. only with all the extra relatives thrown in as a bonus. Anyway, I'll catch up with you again in October.

Why we do what we do!!!!

"The children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust. Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by innappropriate means."

This is from a small box of cards I have with quotes from A Course In Miracles. I pulled the card three days ago and have been reading and meditating on it since then. It explains alot about us and our strange, confounding behaviors. I am striving to reach that "perfect trust".
Could use any company I can find.

Why?

My heart is hurting for a young couple that lost their dream. I don't know them very well, but I know the hopes and excitement they were feeling (I've been there) and I know the expectations they were holding (again, been there). I do not know the pain and heartache they are having now that their dreams are dashed in this awful way. My heart and my prayers go out to them in this painful time. God be with them in their hour of darkness.