Already February 2012

Wow, another month gone already in the New Year of 2012. I wish I could say that this year has been easy thus far but no, I cannot. My stepson, age 31, awakened me three weeks ago on a Monday morning (RE: 1200 AM!) saying he was in a lot of pain. I took him to ER. They rolled him into a private room, said that they were getting a surgeon. His gall bladder was bad - in fact, it was necrotic (Latin for necros means dead) - i.e. dead flesh. They took out his gall bladder, cleaned out as much dead tissue they could and put him on antibiotics. Tuesday morning they opened him up again - a stone stuck in a duct. Poor guy. I was just tired... a LOT. Hey, I'm old, okay?
I've had good news handed to me though. I'm keeping my job as an instructor. I've had to re-apply for my job and have received one "Tentative Hiring Approval" and had to reply that yes, I wanted the job. Well, DUH! I did, of course, so now I'm just waiting for further developments.
Come this Tuesday and Wednesday (8th & 9th of Feb) I'll have finished two more college classes - all A's thus far. It has been daunting, to say the least - I'm trying to get my B.S. in Technical Education. It's a challenge but I'm doing my best.
On a spiritual note -- I've asked God to keep it all together for my family this year. I truly believe that life as we all know it is going to go through a drastic change this year. When I say all, I mean the entire world. Not because of the Mayan 2012 Apocalyptic calendar (a real calendar but misunderstood and hyped by conspiracy theorists) - but because of how evil the world has become just the past 2 years. Evil is about the best I can describe. Darkness, perversion, hate, murder, molestations, etc - these are things that we humans seem to have become inured to - numbed to it. That's Hollywood, Reality TV, CNN, Fox - all of them. We see it on TV all the time, on our computers via the news or YouTube. God help us all.

P.S. SuperBowl today - New York Giants vs. New England Patriots. Eli Manning (QB, NYG) vs Tom Brady (QB, NEP). I doubt that I'll see it. Who do I want to win? The NY Giants. Who's going to win? Probably the Patriots. It's their turn. Plus they want REVENGE for losing to the Giants a couple of years ago for the Super Bowl win. It should be a good game. But I may be doing something else. :)

God bless and keep everyone safe. May you know His love, experience His reality. Amen.