Preachy Post #2 / On the Road

So, our 2 week Thanksgiving extravaganza has begun!  As I type, I am sitting on a white leather Love-seat in Oklahoma City.  The next stop is Dallas for 3 days, sans kids, then it's back to Wichita and finally Toronto.  I love Thanksgiving.

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I love thanksgiving, but I LOATHE the pounds it brings....  I have had ENTIRELY too much dessert already.   I read my friends blogs about their diets and I'm jealous.  Jealous that I have absolutely NO willpower.  None.  

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So I feel like we are being bombarded with bad news lately.  There have been multiple persons that I am close with who have been effected by death in the past week or so.  I have learned of 2 (impending) divorces - of marriages that I thought were bulletproof.  Car wrecks.  Freak accidents.  As a friend put it, Satan is alive and well.  I hate him.  

But I know God is there.  He's constant.  He loves my kids more than I do.  He's here even when it looks like everything is spinning out of control.  He's not surprised when bad things happen, and He's not wringing His hands in worry. Like I do.  He's got this - He got it under control.   He doesn't promise me a life without pain.  He doesn't guarantee that tragedy won't happen.  He guarantees that when it happens, He'll be there.

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Ok - I'm off to bed, since we have to get up reeeeeeeeeally early to leave.  Perhaps something funny will happen for me to blog about tomorrow.