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09/04/2005
Truly Blessed!
A personal aside among all the blogging about Katrina.
I am truly blessed!
I have a wonderful wife (happy birthday, honey!) and two fantastic kids. I have my health, my faith, my home, a great job, two cars, and every material possession I need, plus enough extra to choke a herd of wild mustangs.
The icing on the cake came at the hair place (I can't call it a beauty salon or hair dresser, and it's certainly not a barber shop) yesterday. Just had my haircut and was walking back to the kids in the waiting area. Youngest, soon to be five, propelled herself across the great gulf between us and threw herself at me in utter abandon. Scooping her little self up, we wrapped ourselves in a big hug. Right there in the hair place.
I am truly blessed!
Wonderful Wife turned 41 yesterday. I had a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook computer on order for her. Never in my life have I spent nearly that much on my wife's birthday, but she'd been wanting one and I have access to 3 year interest free financing, so I thought we could swing this.
Then came Katrina and $3.00 per gallon gas. In the wake of the devastation, it seemed sinfully self-indulgent for me to cling to my hopes of having a new computer in the house. I really struggled with the decision. I couldn't sleep. I had trouble concentrating at work. I was feeling pressed from all sides.
So I took the matter to prayer.
To make a long story short, the order was cancelled (probably hours before it would have shipped) and I was shopping for another birthday present for the Wonderful Wife. But I was shopping with a light heart. You can't beat that with a big, fat, hairy stick.
Besides, when the price of gas comes back down and things return to something like normal, that same computer will be cheaper, faster, and more powerful. I had made some concessions in my wish list in favor of affordability. Hold out awhile and all your computing dreams may come true.
Maybe.
I'm still blessed.
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