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About This Author
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Each Day Already is a Challenge
A Texas Sunrise
 
A friend, William Taylor, took this picture. He visits Surfside Beach with his dogs almost every morning, watching the sun rise while the dogs prance about at the water's edge.
This is only about ten miles from where I lived in Lake Jackson, Texas. Sadly, I only visited this beach about four times in the six years I lived nearby.
Each day is a challenge. A challenge to get by without thinking about the fibromyalgia pains. A challenge to stay awake when chronic fatigure wants to take over. And a challenge to navigate through fibro fog.
I haven't been writing as much as in the past. For years, I wrote at least 500 words a day. Now, I'm lucky if I write 500 words in month. Sigh.
For more information about what my day (or life) is all about with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pains, IBS, depression and everything else thrown in, check this out:
January 29, 2007 at 9:03am January 29, 2007 at 9:03am
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Yesterday, the snow did not continue throughout the day. Thankfully. There were a few times during the day that it snowed, but this time those weather guys and gals were correct in calling it a snow dusting.  The temperatures have also dropped. I just heard on the local news that it's just 15 degrees with a windchill factor of 6. Brrr.
I drive a '92 Chevy Cavalier with just over 100,000 miles on it. It was my dad's car. Twice he gave me his cars when he bought new ones. Because of that, I haven't had a car payment since 1983. Before he died, he gave his last car to one of my nieces. Bless his heart. He was concerned that I wouldn't understand, but I did. And this ol' car has been running just fine.
Problem is now that the a/c needs fixin'. Not very comfortable in the summer. And the heater just doesn't want to heat very much. That's not a big problem when the outside temperature is 30 or 40, but when it gets down as low as it is now, it's downright cold in the car!
Our pastor continued his sermon series to go along with our small group studies - Just Walk Across the Room. It's a good study about evengelism.
Sunday's lesson was about developing friendships. During our small group, the DVD presentation talked about a friendship the book's/study's author developed over a period of eight years before the man came to know Christ. I guess that should help us all be more patient...
Some of the notes I made at the side of my sermon notes page stand out more than the "real" notes.
Like...
God didn't send Jesus just so we could have Christmas, but becaue people were lost.
Or...
Those who criticized Christ's ministry prized rigid rules over love.
That's a problem for many even today. Especially in our churches. How or whether we should do certain things becomes such an issue. It's no wonder that folks just aren't interested in Christianity when there is so much fussing and fighting amongst denominations.
I got to do the advice column in the People's Choice Newsletter for February. That was fun.
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