Amy's 'momentary trouble'

My sister Denise, her husband Randy and their youngest son Robbie, came up to visit and celebrate my birthday this past weekend. We didn’t do anything extremely special, but we did go out (just the four adults) Saturday night for supper. We went to a nice supper club in Sauk City and they were quite busy (we had to wait 50 min for a table). Shortly after visiting the salad bar, a man tripped on the leg of a chair and proceeded to fall onto me and dump the beer he was carrying down my back. It was fortunate that I saw him out of the corner of my eye, as I had the time to brace myself, otherwise I am positive he would have knocked me out of my chair and fallen onto our table, which would have tipped it over. I just raised my forearm and shoved him back onto his feet. I am SO glad it was me instead of Amy, she wouldn’t have stood a chance! The guy (and his wife) were thoroughly embarrassed and he repeatedly apologized and asked if he could do something. Not amused, but otherwise unscathed, I just told him no, that both my shirt and I would wash (although I smelled like a drunk myself!). I am sure they were further embarrassed when at the end of our meal the waitress brought a birthday cake and realized it was my birthday. Except for smelling like stale beer, it really wasn’t a big deal.

No real change in how Amy is feeling. We’re just biding our time until the CT Scan is done and we see the doctor’s. I feel like we’re in the ‘eye’ of a hurricane. The first part has come with it’s high winds and driving rain, leaving devastation, fear & suffering in it’s passing. Now a sense of calm..peace..almost normalcy has come. But is it a false sense? Will it last? Or will it be ripped fluttering away, disappearing as smoke into the wind as the hurricane’s gale returns? I know we are not without hope, I know that we are not alone and that does bring comfort, but it does not change the fact that we will have to face the other part of the storm, we are praying that it will lose it’s force, that the winds will calm and the rains relent. Either way, have you ever noticed that after a storm, there’s a certain cleansing that it brings? The air smells cleaner and the rain makes the grass greener and other plants will suddenly grow and blossom. There’s a certain renewing that God brings after a storm, maybe that’s the same with us after surviving the storms of life, we’re washed, cleansed and grow.

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