Monday, May 27, 2013

Memorial weekend

Yesterday, I was on call.  It was a beautiful day and I was very, very fortunate.  I had prayed that I would be able to go to church and to the two cookouts/bonfires I had planned (#350, 351, 352).  I was able to go to all three.  In fact, I wasn't even called until I had basically finished at my first BBQ and the second was right down the road from the hospital; I just went after I got off (#353).  It was an amazing day, with just hanging out with friends (#354).  I am completely amazed as to how much mindfulness has taught me (#355).  Last night, I was around the campfire, with a little boy in his plaid shirt and roasting marshmallows for everyone with a big stick, listening to the guitars playing, and looking up cloudy twilight sky through the tall trees.  I just thought "if I could capture this moment in a bottle, then it would be amazing (#356)."  I think my bottled memories collection may just have to find some more shelf space in my brain.

I was able to go in early today and got off just as it was getting sunny (#357).  I took a bike ride right when it started raining.  I turned around, be eventually decided to brave it.  It stopped the whole trip out (which was an answer to a prayer--#358) and then it rained on the way out.  Honestly, forty miles seemed to be what I needed to iron out the kinks in my aggravations (#359).  It began raining a few miles into the trip back. After the initial frustrations had subsided, I really began enjoying it and had a good ride back.  It was like a life lesson on two wheels.  The rain will come, but you sometimes got to keep riding.  And after a while, it just doesn't really seem that bad. :)

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