This morning our tv, landline phone and internet were out for about three hours. As usual with irritations, I tried to apply Karen Maezen Miller's approach to housekeeping and parenting ("Momma Zen" and "Hand Wash Cold"), which is to use each challenge as a chance to be aware of one's feelings and to observe them with a little distance and perspective. I earned maybe a grade of C for my efforts. We still had working cellphones and separate signal to the iPad but our usual routines and best tools were inoperable. I realize that those hardest hit by Storm Sandy and many people in other lands steadily put up with serious deprivations and that mine are short-lived and only a symbol of minor difficulty, not real ones.
Our Thanksgiving prayer is from Dear Abby's column, revised by Lynn Kirby:
Oh, Heavenly Father,
We thank thee for food and
remember the hungry.
We thank thee for health and
remember the sick.
We thank thee for freedom and
remember the enslaved.
We thank thee for peace and
remember the war-torn.
May these remembrances
stir us to service.
That thy gifts to us may be
used for others. Amen.
--
Bill
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