Turtle Treasures

I spent the weekend in Erie after a rough week getting Dad into a nursing facility and mom who has Alzheimer’s, moved over to my sister Pat’s.    I felt like I NEEDED to go!  I felt like I needed to get away!  It was a weekend of reconnecting with summertime friends..some of them are going through VERY rough things too!  I heard about a mom with stage 4 cancer that’s still in her 60′s,  a camper who lost his job and had to give up his families site,  a family who lost their Father, and an elderly couple who both passed away, and a family dealing with a rough divorce situation…rough stuff!    But everyone was doing what I was doing… taking healing from God (even if they don’t actually KNOW it like I do) in a place that is just filled with the wonder of HIM.   I walked the beach singing and crying my heart’s praise and petition!  It was life restoring.  I found some beach glass too! Nothing special, but enough to cheer me up and making hunting fun!

Saturday night while I was peacefully sleeping in our camper, my Dad was fighting for his life.  He fell in the nursing care facility and collasped a lung.  They said he almost died on the way to the hospital and the efforts of the paramedics who made a puncture in his chest to let air out that was suffocating him, saved his life.  I  couldn’t have done much if I had been home, but needed to get home when I heard this news.  You have to get back to LIFE…just as it is.  Dad is seriously ill in critical care at the Med Center.  My prayer for him is that God will have mercy on him.  And I KNOW He will for “His mercies are new every morning.”  I pray that for you too and my friends who have rough things in their life!  And in quiet moments I remember that wind blowing off the lake, the sound of the waves, the pebbles and sand, and the healing and peace that place brings my heart and I am grateful…very grateful!