Rambling Friday: Rambling About Blessings and ...

 Sometimes it seems a person has more troubles than blessings. Have you ever felt it? Oh, yeah, I have. 

• Everything breaks down at once: the stand-up mixer refuses to mix up the dough another time, the lawnmower gives up the ghost, and your favorite vase, dish, mug, whatever--well, you or someone else drops it, and of course, it doesn't bounce. It breaks. 
• You're coming home from a nice dinner with friends, or you're in a hurry to get to your
  
  
  destination or you want to get home before the storm hits--doesn't matter what the situation is--and a beautiful, doe-eyed deer decides to jump in front of your vehicle. Uh, huh, right.
• Or it's winter and you slip on the ice and injure your knee, elbow, or some other part of your anatomy. If it isn't that, lines freeze up. Or the electricity goes off and everything thaws...

Yep, some of this has happened to us, recently! 

But... (there's always a but, isn't there?) there are blessings too. And when the blessings come, somehow the world seems a wonderful place.

And I think to myself, "What a Wonderful World."

You kinda forget about the troubles you've just gone through. The blessings outshine the hardships. Everything seems top of the world. Those troublesome troubles seem to fade out--almost as if God has your back. Almost as if he's saying, I truly do love you. See...

It's then I whisper, Father, forgive me.

And he does.