always good to be able to get away to see family and friends.... weddings are particularly nice.... especially when it's your grandson.... yet... it is always good to get back too!

Probably getting to the point in my life....where long drives are less and less appealing... by the time we arrived back in Morrisville... after 7 hours of driving on Monday... I was one hurting 76 year old unit with a ton-a-bunch of aches and pains... couldn't even do my daily walk... and Tuesday and Wednesday have since come and gone as well... still no walk!

My body getting older... is one of those things I need to continue to learn to flow with... you know... those "bads" that I have been talking about... this one is hardly even close to an ugly.... it's not even close to a bad "bad" either... just a plain old bad....

All worth it though...so many things happened while we were down in Jersey... touched so many different people... all at different places in their journeys... all experiencing different things.... we did a lot of listening and observing... and loving on folks best we know how...... all of it helps us to see how to pray for everybody... all of it helps us to grow... helps us to prepare for the next thing down the road....

Nothing that we saw or learned...prepared us for the "next thing" that happened.... just about the ugliest of things that can ever happen to any of us... and it happened to one my  best friends... I'm still reeling ... still talking to the Lord about it... still working my way thru it...

My friend's 26 year old son was killed in a car accident...

Heavy stuff...I'll try to write more maybe... after the Lord brings the valley up a little... all I know is... that none of us ever escapes some uglies.... I also know it's pretty rough working our way thru them...