The Orchid Table

Not only is our orchid table doing well, but I came back from the Bible study to find that Col had bought me some daffodils, some sparkly wine and some truffles.  A lovely surprise!

And our Bible student had a vase of tulips her daughter had bought for  her, so spring, or at least its flowers, are in the air,

And how many more springs do I have?   I am very far into my seventies now.  Of course, I am hoping for unnumbered springs in the restored earthly paradise. But that is not up to me. It is only our Creator who can give us back the life and perfection our first parents lost. And it is only through the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ that I can inherit the earth, and live forever upon it.

I am very tired as the pain in my shoulder wakes me in the early hours.  Pain Clinics? They have been suggested. But am I now in too much pain to attend one?  Is this a common medical Catch 22?  And just to add to my stress my diabetes med has just arrived and I really do NOT want to be taking it.  My measurement is down by a point, which is good, and both my feet and my eye tests were good.  

I don't know what to do.  I need to pray about this.

On the doubleplusgood side, though the pain in my "good" shoulder is still keeping me awake at nights, I do have some function back in it. Which is very encouraging. I thought it might have gone for good.

My fellow Fantastic Books authors are busy in cyberspace at the moment as we all try to publicise our books.  Its not easy to follow all the techie stuff, but interesting and hopefully some of us will get some sales out of it.  

And to end as I began, with the Orchid table, it has a lot of history. It used to stand in the summerhouse at Nabbs, covered in newspaper and windfall apples, gradually rotting away. Then when my parents were young married, in search of furniture, my father put new legs on it - very 1950s legs, which it has to this day. Then later, when the Captain and I were young marrieds ourselves, Ron, my father in law, restored the top for us.

So many memories... so what will it be like having lived say 800 years on the earth, building up layers of completely happy memories, and learning all sorts of new and wonderful things?  I hope we  will all find out one day - approximately 880 years from now!