Neal’s prognosis is pretty much the same except to add a hint of the flu as well. That’s not a definite diagnosis, it’s Neal’s guess being that he has fever (which he hasn’t had at all), congestion and body aches to boot. 🙁 Poor guy!
Thankfully we have a great support system and one of my friends did a ‘dump and run’ this morning.
Can you believe? 🙂 So grateful and thankful someone was taking care of my husband! I, unfortunately, was not as I was on my way to Corsicana to meet with my publicists.
But what a crazy day to begin…first words I hear this morning are “Pope Benedict XVI has resigned.” I’m like, “What?” Then I was glued to the TV so I could gather whatever news could be given. I had a mixed reaction. My first reaction was sadness. I have heard Pope Benedict XVI speak at WYD ’05, ’08 and ’11, plus I was a part of those festivities in ’08 and ’11. Attending and speaking at these events in many ways brought me into a better appreciation of the papalcy and for Pope Benedict XVI in general. He was encouraging, inspiring and love. He is a brilliant leader in many ways but there was also another reaction of excitement in regards to who the new Pope could be and what kind of FIRE could be lit within our Catholic faith. This year is our New Evangelization and we have so many amazing Cardinals to lead us. I see the positive in this all around. I see that Pope Benedict XVI has shown a great example of humility as the head of our church to step down for the benefit of US the CHURCH which endears me to him more. To be honest it encourages me to keep pressing onward with what God has called me to do.
Which is good that today I had a strategy meeting with Tina, Diane and Rick at B&B Media. I can sum up this meeting in a variety of ways: “Vacations over!” or “Let’s get this party started!” or “Light the fire!” 😀
Good thing I’m a goal oriented person who feeds off deadlines because now I have many. Plus there wasn’t a shortage of moments of God showing up either. For one, I have been battling with an issue that I didn’t quite know how to handle and because of my uncertainty have put it off. Today Rick was like the voice of God giving me step by step instruction on how to handle this particular issue and I hadn’t even brought it up.
Because of this particular instruction from Rick it ‘lit my fire’ and on the drive home I made a phone call to my mom to ask her a question because of her professional involvement on some things I felt could help and because she didn’t answer I spoke to my father about the same thing. He took the fire that was lit and fanned it some more bringing it to a flame! 😉
And the greatest moment of all…I was about 20 minutes from home when my mom returned my call. I told her what I was calling about and she gave me her two ‘professional’ cents on the issue as well which helped but then it also led us to finally talk. I ventured as to when I could see her in person. It’s been heavy on my heart to talk to her about these memories I’ve recovered and when I realized they were leaving for Florida to see my older sister tomorrow and wouldn’t come through Houston till I was in Germany I knew I had to talk to her NOW.
So I did.
I’ve been waiting TWO WEEKS to tell her. I finally unloaded and it feels so good. And though her reaction isn’t exactly what I expected. In fact, it was more like she was waiting for the day I would remember too. I tell you, the mind is a curious instrument. There is much more I could get into on this but I will share more about this conversation on another day… soon. It was definitely a ‘God moment’ that needed to happen because she needed to know before seeing my sister. My mom even said, “God definitely has his timing. I can see why you remember now and why I needed to talk to you before I left tomorrow morning. ”
It’s been a long day, one I need to decompress even more. Now that my ‘fire is lit’ I need to get moving and spread the flame. 🙂
Blessings
Shannon