I Have To Say This ....

This isn’t in my regular style or voice for this blog. I’m not at all easy with writing. But I just have to say as I take off for a ten day jaunt to Japan for karate training …

I could never ever have asked for this wonderful of a life … In my wildest dreams. It has been like the best music, on all the time.

In 51 years, I have met some of the greatest minds, some of the kindest souls, some of the most fascinating journeyers. I have felt fully alive in a body that has almost pulled me into activity. I have had two kids, and received another into our family, each almost overloading my circuits with joy every time I look at them. I have had the wife all the love stories dream about.

I have read the greatest words in books and my Bible; I have felt the wind on my face in most of the 50 states and 12 countries; I have thought; and felt. I have been reunited with family from long ago, like my sister Tracy who I didn’t see for 29 years. I have played and worked my fanny off.

Maybe most surprising to me is the church that I have been treated to. I have seen people take off like rockets, I have seen others journey, sometimes upstream and sometimes downstream, but always to better places, and always on a journey that is itself sacred.

And in those churches, I have seen people do good to each other, to others they hardly know, and to themselves and their families.

In all of this and so much I am not writing, I have been loved by, and even felt the presence of, a graceful and extravagant God. For everything from my skin to my nose to my eyes [my eyes, always stunned to see] to my ears to my tongue, I give thanks.

It will be so good to be back in a little over a week to share with you. ‘Till then, I hope you get to see your life in its wonder once in a while. I only see the wonder once in a while. But those moments still knock me out.

See you back.