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Can you tell me what year it is?

When I worked in an Emergency room I often heard patients who sustained concussions being asked "Can you tell what year it is? Can you tell me who the President is." No comment on the latter question, but WHAT YEAR IS IT? Can you believe its almost the end of the year again. I'm just getting used to signing 2005. I even caught myself signing 12/21/2001 today. I'd like to think I got messed up cuz of all the two and ones......

While I've not recently hit my head, I wonder about my brain sometimes. I can't remember anything anymore. One day I couldn't find my hand-held phone until after retracing my steps I found it in the towel closet where I set it down to grab something else. Anyway, yes, I can tell you what year it is but, in just over a week I don't know that I will. What a year its been too. With all that's happened have we even forgotten how it opened? The aftermath of Tsunami. The year was in full swing. Then there were exciting, wonderful and unthinkable, heart wrenching things to come as the months followed. So much occured globally, nationally, in our ministry and personally. Whether we've found ourselves reveling or realing the clock hasn't stopped ticking and here we are at another New Year.

There's been hard things. I'd like to think I've become more graceful and like HIM thru those times, but I feel like they've only brought the worst of me. Maybe that means the dross is coming out (you know the purifying gold imagery). There's been good things. I'd like to think I've become more graceful and like HIM thru those as well. But, I'm not sure I'm any more thankful. I need to be more thankful because that's what carries me thru the hard things and I'm more able to keep my eyes set on Jesus. I think, in fact I know, I need to make more time for stillness. Then I can hear His voice, appreciate the good things and learn from the hard AND give my brain a rest. It makes me think of the old song by Chicago that opens "Does anybody really know what time it is..."

As far as my brain goes, I think I've got a lot coming at me it doesn't get a chance to file everything. So when the information is needed to be retrieved the search doesn't find anything. The file is not likely to be found even on the desktop either because I've probably shut what ever it is I was to make note of in the towel closet. So here's to 2001 ;-)

posted by kt @ 12/21/2005 06:13:00 PM