Life... hmmm...

It has been nearly 2 months since my last post and I almost feel like I am starting over!  My life got pretty crazy this past May and I feel I have been playing catch up ever since.  But the other day I had a ah-ha moment!  This past spring I was complaining about NOT having enough time to get everything done... well, God must have heard my complaining and truly wanted to teach me a lesson.  Now when I tell you what happened, I do NOT believe this incident happened just for me, but for many others as well including the star of the show. 
I got a call just before 6am one morning towards the end of May from my dad.  I was barely awake when I answered the phone and soon discovered it was not my dad on the other end of the phone.  It was the paramedic who had picked my dad up from his house after he had called 911.  Apparently my dad had fallen and had hit his head hard enough to cause a brain hemorrhage.  From that moment on until now, life has been a whirlwind of the ER, intensive care, rehab therapy and once released being there to assist my dad wherever needed. 
Now back to my ah-ha moment... I realized that although at first I had NO extra time to do ANYTHING for my family or myself I have slowly worked the chaos into my schedule and I now KNOW I had a large amount of time to do all the things I "needed" and wanted to do, I just chose to fill it with things that were not as important as I thought they were.  Heavenly Father has his ways of showing you how much abundance you DO have in your life.  Some times these lessons do not come in the way you would prefer, but they are lessons nonetheless and I feel I will be a far more organized person in my time from here on out. 
I am striving to have a complain free life... NOT because I don't want the lessons... well maybe that's part of it!  But more because life feels so much more satisfying when there is less complaining and more compassion, organization and service to others. 
My dad is doing much better and each day I am with him I see more and more improvement.  I pray every day he will continue to progress in his healing and return to his normal self.  Life is so short and it goes by so quickly.  It only takes a moment to stop rushing around and enjoy the small things, even if it is taking your dad for a drive around town because he is going stir crazy... or getting on the ground with your baby and crawling around with him... or jumping on the trampoline with your pre-teens and realizing how much work jumping takes these days!  Enjoy life!