Monday January 30 2017  EACH DECISION WE MAKE

Each day runs into the next.  Some days are so long that it seems as if I’ve lived two days.  Fortunately for me they are good days that last so long.  This trip has delivered several such days.  The drives have been longer than I usually plan but I had many miles to travel in just a few days.  Instead of feeling weary or defeated because of the long road ahead I looked at it as an adventure.  I broke the driving tedium by making a game out of getting below the next 100 mile marker on my trip tick.  I celebrated with happy thoughts for each 100 mile marker I covered. 

I also discovered a new way of driving.  Fortunately my car is small, with plenty of room in the seating area, and the seat pumps up high enough for me to see over the steering wheel.  The car sits high so I don’t feel as if I am dragging my wagon on the pavement.  I don’t enjoy riding in or driving low designed cars.  And another thing, I get in and out quite often for potty stops and it is easier on the back and legs for an older person to bypass the hoisting of the body.  But the one thing that has made a difference for me on this trip is realizing that driving braless (skip to the next paragraph if this is too much information) is the panacea for comfortable driving.  No straps or elastic stretching around the midsection and back causing pressure to the upper body.  It is freedom personified!  I just wear blousy clothes and a couple of layers and even my friends would not know I was braless.  How do I know that?  I do it quite often around my friends.  Either they don’t notice (close lady friends) or they are too polite to say anything.  When you don’t have much to begin with you can get away with it more readily!  Oh the lasting joy of breast reductions!  I’m a walking testimony to that.

I have not had one backache while driving the long hours.  Being unconfined is a most amazing comfort to experience.  I know that this is probably considered a taboo topic to discuss, but I’m done with being conventional.  I will say it like it is and believe others may benefit from my candid assessment of why I have no pain or discomfort throughout a long day of driving.  Ladies, try it, you might like it.

Well, since I have been driving for days, and yesterday being Sunday, I was with Lana all day, I didn’t wear a bra yesterday either.  Today I decided to become civilized again.  I need to exercise and it is more comfortable to be “confined”.  But, oh boy, do I feel the bondage again.  Ladies, it must have been men who designed ladies under garments.  Surely no woman would have thought of such self-torture.

Lana is doing well considering what her body has gone through this past year.  She has battled this cancer for several years so it has been a long journey.  She looks exceptionally healthy in the face, minus eyelashes and hair, but her beauty still shines through.  She tires easily and must lie down immediately when the tiredness comes over her.  She is on pain regulated medicine, has at least two tube strippings a day in order to empty her drains, and must be careful with bandage changes.  Lots to do in order to get well following the surgery she has experienced. 

I am chief cook and bottle washer at present.  I enjoy ministering my tasks.  Lana is not a complainer, nor demanding, and we have enjoyed the presence of each other (at least I’ve enjoyed hers), as well as praying together.  We are kindred spirits in the sense that we are both full of prayers and praise to God.  Tim led us in a time of prayer and Holy Communion yesterday on the Sabbath.  Just being able to set aside time in remembrance of what Jesus did for us on the cross gave us pause to celebrate our day of rest.

EACH DECISION WE MAKE

Kathleen Martens

January 30, 2017

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Oh God, for the beauty of life

As each morning rises alone,

Each to experience life in full

When sin has been atoned.

Oh for the hours we have in each day

To spend and conquer at will.

And the outcome because of choice

Anxiety or peacefully filled.

Each decision we make this hour

Will have consequences ahead,

Unintended or intended,

They can bring life or death.

Over and over You offer choice

Of what path our lives will lead.

Draw me close that I will hear

Your words that I might heed.

Thank You Father that you have given man choice.

Thank You for Your Holy Word that we may know the way to salvation.

Thank You for every sunrise and every sunset.

Thank You for Your ever-present love.

P.S.  Thank You for the insight of driving braless!