Hello World

It's Sunday and I should be going to church but I just found out how to make a blog and I think this is going to be fun. Right now it is freezing cold and I don't like that because I still haven't gotten used to the cooler weather in Farmington as opposed to Las Cruces, NM. There is a positive though, I do not have to drive down I-10 everyday to smell the feculent dairy farms. I never was able to get accustomed to that and moving back with my parents was a blow to my pride, but I was not moving forward in life down in Cruces. Sometimes God puts obstacles in your life to get you onto the right direction.

This weather brings to mind a fonder memory, the last time spent with my Grandpa Thompson up in Medicine Hat. He died about 7 years ago from cancer that began in the bladder and entered into his lymphatic system. When I visited that winter break he was tiny and thin, not the strong Grandpa I had remembered, but his face said it all! He was happy to see me and though he did not have long, his love and attitude displayed to me a kind of power that was far beyond the shadows of death.

When times become hard and I let my emotions and anger get the best of me, I think back on how my Grandpa approached life and that instead of a frown and down-on-luck view, I should be counting my blessings and loving the moments shared with family and friends.