Movie Night And More

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
~ Unknown author

 

  I had a good night Thursday because for me it was Movie Night.  It has been awhile since I stayed up late, snacked, and watched movies from my collection; some old, some new.  After viewing several features and raiding the refrigerator of left-overs, I finally called it a night at around 3 a.m.

  Friday morning I attended my PTSD group at the VA hospital. It's always refreshing to sit  around with a group of men and women who mean no harm to anybody; just desiring to talk about everyday experiences in which we all communicate on ways we have overcome them in our own lives. There's always a bunch of laughter and true fellowship there. Laughter is truly the best medicine one could ever prescribe.

  While the family is visiting in Charlotte, N.C. I have taken full advantage of my "Me time" here at the house.  I am always concerned about the welfare of my loved ones and it is a daily ritual for me to release my excessive worry and to allow God to order the universe. Yes, I realize that some say to worry is sin, but I never said I was perfect. Partially due to the overcast skies and my own need to seclude myself, I retreated to the quiet serenity of my home and felt no pressure to be anything to anybody. As I alternated from watching television to reading to operating my computer I simultaneously reflected on so much that has occurred in 2012; both locally and nationally.

  Which of us can truthfully predict who will see the end of the coming year of 2013? Greater minds than my own have written and published vast discussions on life and how it will one day end for us all. I have concluded that having consistent thoughts of such things can elicit fear and paranoia in a person's mind;thus rendering them ineffective to the present realness which surrounds them. 

"  And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry. 



But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?'  -Luke 12: 19-20 (NIV)


   I am in a good place in my life where I do not regret who I am and what the trials in my life have forged me to be. As it occurs with change, I have been several people throughout my life; whatever the situation or circumstances dictated. I had the option to either remain in that specific mindset or evolve into an individual who has learned to assimilate each of his phases into one acceptable and congruent person. I live for today only but my life is prepared for heaven tomorrow. 

  Yes, at the end of one's solstice it should be for them as in the words of Charles Dickens;

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known".

- A Tale of Two Cities

I love you all.
See you in 2013
Dennis