"it is well, it is well with my soul...."

The sun is breaking through the clouds, reflecting off the water directly into my face. This is an observation, not a complaint. For some reason the river level is quite high, covering over some of the breakwater below my window. The grasses are barely showing but the tops are waving as if they can see me up here. The water color reflects the greyness of the skies which are layered flat clouds, for now. We are expecting some thunderstorms some time today as a cold front from up north works its way through. Thanks very much, you guys....ugh!

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Yesterday, after seeing on Facebook the drama unfolding in CO with the child in a balloon, I tuned in to FOX to watch the rescue people chase it around the flat lands to save the boy. Only no boy was found. This was good and bad. Either he fell off/out of the balloon and was anywhere between 50 miles of home, or it never happened. Now, the boy was found to be safe at home, hiding, and the questions are being asked about how this happened. I already had wrinkled my brow when it was reported the boys' brothers were on a roof with a video camera....sounds like a set-up to me. Today this family is all over the airwaves with interviews and vomiting, and I am sure the investigators will get figured out. I prayed that they would find the little boy unhurt and those prayers were heard and answered.

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I also saw security footage of a baby in a stroller rolling away from the mom at the train station and having it land right in front of the zooming train. According to the reports, the baby escaped with very little injury. When I saw the video the first time my hands automatically flew up to my face and I said aloud, "Oh, no!"...then I heard the baby was alright. "Somehow", according to the reporter, "the baby escaped with hardly a scratch..." I know personally who that "somehow" is!

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Even though today is Linda's birthday, I was the one who received a wonderful present! One of my friends from church, Jennifer, sent me a wonderful musical present via Facebook. If you can, visit my homepage and see if you can click on the posting she sent me. Jen had seen it on her other friend's homepage, and thought of me, so she copied it over to post on mine. It is a trio of women singing a capella in a rotunda, "When Peace Like A River". Not only is the song perfect, the sentiment that sent it to me was perfect. Thanks for making my day, Jen, and swelling my soul!