I spent 3 hours this morning with my brother in the squirrel woods. Yes, they are just regular woods, but whatever game you are pursuing, for whatever reason, is what you call those woods. The squirrel, deer, turkey...whatever woods are all the same woods for me. I don't go to many different places, but I don't need to. I just love being out in the _____ woods. (That blank is there to fill in an animal name, not because I was attempting to bleep out a word).
My soul gets restored in nature. I will have a great week this week and lots of it will be due to the fact that I got out and walked around in the wilderness chasing tree rats.
Turkey season is almost here...I can't wait.
Oh, I read a book last week called, "Heaven is for real". It's one of the few ever that changed my whole world. It's a picture of heaven from a 4 year old boy who went there for a short time when having an emergency appendectomy. What an incredible gift it was to me to be able to "see" our home. I have different peace now. Knowing she'd not want to come back even if given the chance and that she is loving every second of it. She's the lucky one. Soon enough we'll get to join her, but until then we've got some work to do.
Time to get after it!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Checkin in'
I took a blog break. It was really helpful. I'm back in for now as I work to "flip" my schedule back to early mornings instead of late nights. I'm sure i'll have the occasional late night, but I'm workin' on making it the exception and not the rule. Also, while my month-long experiment with the devotional format was fun, it was more effort than I wanted it to be. If this thing starts feeling like homework, I won't do it. I have enough of that already. So, today is Hunter family life update day...this before I go back to rambling on about other stuff in the days ahead.
We are doing pretty well. Last weekend was the 5k for brain tumors that was run in Orlando. We were part of a team that ran for Ava and it was a really cool weekend. We got the pleasure of seeing and meeting a bunch of people who prayed so hard for her last summer. It was truly an awesome event. We set a record for team size for any event they have ever done and our team of over 160 people (out of a total of almost 500 racers) looked like a sea of purple in their Ava Hunter shirts. I'm not much into shirts in the fashion arena, but these were really cool. Lisa had them made and they had a drawing of Ava's name that she (Ava) made on the front, and a scripture on the back that read, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" 2 Tim. 4:7 ...it was awesome.
We still have bad moments. The days are better than they used to be, but the giant hole is still there. I'm just not as likely to fall into it every minute because I am used to it being there now. But, some days I still can't help it. We talk about Ava every single day still and there are many more laughs than there were. I would venture to say a few more laughs than tears even...
Hunter Vision is rocking along. A new year has brought a new momentum to the clinic. The staff is great and of course, the doc is still awesome. We are getting busy. Word is spreading and our appointment books no longer look like a family reunion invite list. That's how you know you are headed in the right direction.
I'll chat more tomorrow. I've got to get to a book I'm reading about how to be awesome. It's called the Bible.
We are doing pretty well. Last weekend was the 5k for brain tumors that was run in Orlando. We were part of a team that ran for Ava and it was a really cool weekend. We got the pleasure of seeing and meeting a bunch of people who prayed so hard for her last summer. It was truly an awesome event. We set a record for team size for any event they have ever done and our team of over 160 people (out of a total of almost 500 racers) looked like a sea of purple in their Ava Hunter shirts. I'm not much into shirts in the fashion arena, but these were really cool. Lisa had them made and they had a drawing of Ava's name that she (Ava) made on the front, and a scripture on the back that read, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" 2 Tim. 4:7 ...it was awesome.
We still have bad moments. The days are better than they used to be, but the giant hole is still there. I'm just not as likely to fall into it every minute because I am used to it being there now. But, some days I still can't help it. We talk about Ava every single day still and there are many more laughs than there were. I would venture to say a few more laughs than tears even...
Hunter Vision is rocking along. A new year has brought a new momentum to the clinic. The staff is great and of course, the doc is still awesome. We are getting busy. Word is spreading and our appointment books no longer look like a family reunion invite list. That's how you know you are headed in the right direction.
I'll chat more tomorrow. I've got to get to a book I'm reading about how to be awesome. It's called the Bible.
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