Personal Log 8.9.21

It's been a while since I've blogged anything so here's an update of what's been going on:

I'm busy. Methinks at times a little too busy but nonetheless busy. 

My folks are getting older & age is catching up w/ them. I'm grateful I still have my parents but as we all know, no one lives forever. They have their health issues & like my friend Nathan (who's a computer junkie) once told me, “hardware [eventually] breaks down...”

My oldest brother, who lives 3 hours away, is moving 30 minutes away to be closer to them & I'll have to help him move around the end of the month.

Over the last month, we've had relatives coming in & out of town it seems every 72 hours, some I haven't seen in 15+ years. My mom's brother & sister from New Mexico popped in this week... my nephew & his wife from Germany are here & will be leaving this weekend… my little brother is coming in this weekend… all to see the folks & I'm hoping that's not an omen. It looks like it's not going to stop for awhile either.

On top of that, I'm engaged in taking care of some lawns, landscaping & various projects for some elderly people & at times, putting in some 14 – 15 hour days.

Not to mention in what spare time I do have (which usually runs between 10 pm – 2 am) I've been splitting my time between writing, re-writing & re-arranging some original worship songs for a CD project & trying to get a regular schedule going for an instrumental project of musicians in my fellowship. There's been a few times that I've dozed off w/ a guitar in my hand, yeah I'm that tired.

I could share more but I'm just not going to as I've got to get rolling.

I hope that no one is offended if I've not gotten back w/ them right away. Over the last 5 years, I've had my share of reaching out & getting zero responses, whether that's phone calls, texts, emails, video calls, you name it. At first it bothered me but I realized that people have their reasons (health issues, job issues, tech issues, bad timing, whatever) & I needed to walk in forgiveness. If there's one thing I've learned over & over it's this: just forgive. Forgive quickly & forgive completely. 

Life is too short to hold onto anything but the promises of God.

That's it for now, I'll get back to blogging when the time is right.