Cha-Ching!

(I've been start-stopping this over the past 2 weeks. Ignore the choppy thoughts.)

You know that place you sometimes reach, where you're just a bit numb and aren't sure which way to move? I dont mean your leg fell asleep while sitting too long or that you had one beer to many and feel off balance, its more the like the feeling you may have after checking out with cash at the grocery store and receiving a penny back in change. You had just enough to cover what you needed. It's all good!

If you really slow to think about it, that's a 'wow'. Did you plan well? Divine? Scripted? Does it matter? It worked out well. But, when you DO stop to think about it, WOW. How many things lined up just in time? What situation presented itself so that you you had that amount of cash available? What did you pick off the shelf and why? Were you swayed by a discount for the store brand? Was someone standing between you and the item you really wanted, and you settled for something else? Did you take a coupon off the shelf? Lots to take in...

This week has really been on of those weeks. SOOO many 'wows' that it really does overwhelm me to try and think about it all. Many things seem to line up without my doing much, so I'm doing my best to stay out of the way. To know me, you know it's tough for me to sit quietly and observe. To that point, I've had several of the "why me" days lately, and not because of a large pity party, but more because I'm curious. Why me? Why now? My brain is alive and curious! ..again..trying to avoid influencing or being controling.

We enjoyed an awesome trip to Maine, and I'm still vacationing in my mind. On this trip we were blessed to meet two wonderful ladies, Lee and Tammy. Lee and Tammy and Lee and Rachel, had a crazy fun time meeting each other "after all these years." (New-Lee, I stole that from you, thank you.) The bond we all forged very quickly, began after we flew into Maine on the same connecting plane (same row; didn't meet here), then proceded to run into each other 4 times, over as many days, in different locations of this vacation destination, covered in tourist. No, we weren't part of the same tour group, nor were we staying in the same hotel. Anywho, collectively, we finally accepted something bigger was at work, and it was time to officially meet. Our lives overlap on sooo many levels; more than I'll go into out here. Sufice it to say, we know the same fight in life, we know the same motivations, we share the same passions, we love to live life. Why? ..because we can!

I dont know 'why' Myasthenia Gravis or Multiple Sclerosis or freckles or long toes or type B+ blood or a love for fried chicken livers, are parts of my life. I'll never understand it, nor should I. My job is to appreciate that I DO have these gifts in life, and to learn how to live with them. Appreciate all that you have and celebrate that with others; share your experience. Our encounter with Lee and Tammy overwhelmed me in a way I can't really explain with words, but I can say it bolstered my core at the right time. Feels like a single penny in change.