Need to breathe

Hey All,

I wanted to give a quick update. My friend Misty is doing better. She's being stubborn and trying to do too much and strained her neck, but she says she's feeling fine. I can't really scold her for doing too much too fast...Lord knows after my surgery I hurt myself a couple of times trying to do too much too soon. Dunno why we do that as humans...I guess we're so accustomed to being busy that when we CAN'T do anything, we refuse to accept it.

The title of this post refers to something that I need to do. Lately things have really been getting to me that shouldn't. Things that I normally wouldn't give a second thought are bugging me and it's really been affecting my mood. So far, it has not affected me spiritually, but I do need to step back and take a break before it does. I know myself well enough to know that if I do too much more..I'm going to completely shut myself off from everyone, and that is not healthy either physically or spiritually. It's just that a couple of things over the past two or three weeks have not really gone as well as I had hoped, on top of the fact that other than the one day off at work for Christmas and one day for New Year, I haven't taken a day off since October. It's weird to say but right now I am burned out on life, and I am "existing" rather than "living". Thankfully, tonight I was able to spend some good quality time with friends from church as we watched the Super Bowl. That really helped a lot.

So....I have asked for the last week of this month off. I still have to burn ten days worth of vacation before the end of May, so I figure now is as good a time as any to use half of it. I dunno what I'll do or where I'll go, but I will probably go home and spend some time with the family..maybe even go to Memphis to see a couple of friends that I haven't seen in a while...or possibly even go to Austin to see my sister and bro in law and the kids...right now I just don't know, but I do know that I just need to "get away" before I snap. lol

I also have decided with almost certainty that I am going to go to Alaska this summer. I think all that needs to be ironed out is when a convenient time for my friend is. I have been friends with this person for years and need to go see her. I've never been to Alaska so she will be bestowed with the honor of being my tour guide :)

I will close this out with another prayer request. You guys receiving this have been amazing with my prayer requests in the past so I throw this one at you...my friend Steve, in Buffalo, NY. His mother was recently diagnosed with an as of yet incurable disease. He is very very close to his family. Please pray for the family, definitely his mother and her doctors. Please ask your friends to pray for her....I have personally never met her, but from what he describes, she is a truly amazing Christian woman.

~God Bless~