Today may be the day

The proof is proofed, and all the forms filled out, except one....the hard copy book should publish today.  I can't figure out one form and have to wait till I can talk with a representative to decipher what I need to do with it. I hope I am not signing away the pool table...though all we use it for is a giant clothes folding table anyway. Once I figure this form out, I will begin my media blitz to make my book a best seller. This means that not only will Aunt Elaine be notified, but even a note will be left for the mailman that my hard copy book will be available ( I hope) by the end of the day.

This is the third proof I have read through, and probably the thousandth time I have read my book over three years. And that isn't even counting the actual living through the events, which is my family's excuse for not reading their mom's first and only published work. But every time I read it, when I get to the end I cry. I cry, not because the end is sad. It is a triumphant ending. I cry because I remember how incredibly hard that year of trying to save the dying dog was, and how hopeless it all seemed. How certain I was that it was impossible, that we would never succeed, that it could not have been of God and be so incredibly hard.  But in the end, we did succeed, and the memories of how painful and difficult it was slowly dissipated. Instead, what was left was the conviction that all things are possible with God.

Maybe even figuring out that one last form....
( Today, if I do manage to figure it out, I will put the ordering information on my blog. )

Matthew 19:25-27

 ²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
 ²⁶ Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Possibilities

Small towns lock up early. We met Matt and Karissa for dinner on the latish side since it was a 6 hour drive and we got in later than planned. As we finished our meal, the waitress was standing there tapping her toe, and the moment the last bite went in our mouth, our plates were whisked away and a bill slammed down. She stepped back to cross her arms and tap her toe waiting for Arvo to sign it.

As she ushered us out, she locked the door behind us. It was not even 9:00 on a Saturday night.
We headed off looking for the Tastee Freeze down the street, but they were also sweeping floors and locked up. No wonder country boys have to resort to tipping cows for entertainment. Everything else is closed.

It is raining, but the diploma ceremony for Matt's graduation isn't until noon, so we have hopes of sun peeking out before then. I can't get on the internet with my iPod here without paying ransom or offering them our first born son, so I have no pictures for my post, and then after Tuesday, we will be totally without internet. However, I am storing up pictures, sitting on the screened in porch overlooking a lovely, albeit wet forest, and log cabins dotted around us.

It is a meaningful day. Everyone who has had a kid graduate from anything knows how I feel. Everything big seems impossible when you begin... things like homeschooling, raising children, graduating from college, paying college loans, rescuing vicious dogs.....

But somehow, if you just put one minute after another, and one hour after another, soon you have grown children that warm your heart, college graduates, a faith you never thought would blossom, and dogs that are no longer vicious but are missing teeth. The impossible is really just an incomprehensible series of possible steps.
And when you are there, looking back, you wonder why you ever doubted. Instead of locking doors behind you closing you out because you have arrived when the Owner is weary, i hear the chorus of heavenly voices singing, "Well done! Come enter in our joy!"

Matthew 19:26 (New International Version)

²⁶Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."