Amy's 'momentary trouble'

I can vividly remember as a young boy, watching a very early Warner’s Brothers cartoon of Bugs Bunny where Elmer Fudd decided to go camping to get some much needed ‘West & Wewaxation’. This particular cartoon was so early in fact that the artist’s didn’t even have Elmer drawn as a hunter, he was drawn wearing a suit coat & tie, like he had just come from the office. Elmer was leaving the city, presumably for the weekend, to reconnect with nature, to get away from the rat-race of his weekly life and to get that desired R & R (or in his case, W & W). Little did Elmer know that when he set up his camp, he set it up right by a rabbit hole and not just any rabbit hole, but the rabbit hole of our antagonist, Bugs Bunny! Needless to say, Elmer didn’t get his West and Wewaxation. In fact, if I remember correctly, Elmer went speeding home as fast as he could, like someone had lit the tail of his shirt on fire.

Just like Elmer I think we all, at one time or another, live our busy little lives running from one seemingly important task to another. Whether it’s working late, civic organizational duties or even running our children from one event to another, if we place our value just in these activities, we will tend to live a life of unrest. Unrest is one of the characteristics of the world we live in. We are in a hurry but we don't know where we really need to go. There is failure, disappointment and neglect staring us in the face. But we cannot seem to admit there is rest only in Christ: rest of conscience; rest of hope; rest and comfort and peace. Matthew 11:28 says; Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest.

Well, today starts her second week of treatments, pray that she’s able to eat and keep her food down. She so desperately just wants to feel good. Amy and I enjoyed a weekend of rest and relaxation. A respite from a rough first week of radiation & chemo treatments. Amy was able to keep what she ate down, but she approached each mealtime with caution and trepidation and never ate a full meal. Her new best friends are Oranges; it seems she can’t get enough of them and seeing that she’s finally found something that she likes & will keep down, I have encouraged this. Saturday we just sort of lounged and watched the Baraboo Chamber Auction. We bid on a few items, won some, lost some. There was one item in particular that Amy wanted: a one night stay at the Inn at Wawanissee Point. This inn is near the top of the bluff on Tower Rd. and offers a 36 mile view from its upper most point. We won the bid and have already scheduled our stay for the Sunday before our 20th anniversary (July 30th). Amy is SO excited about it that she can barely contain herself.

I just hope we have better luck then Elmer!

This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V