My brother & sisters in Christ are in my thoughts & prayers. Earlier this week they lost a mother & grand-mother. I will never pretend to know God's timing in these matters. I do know that it was NOT God's original will for His beloved creatures to die. SEE Genesis chapter 3. Before getting too huffy about Adam & Eve, you have to admit that the chance to become like God would be a temptation that would lead all of us to fall.

I lost both of my parents within four months of each other. I know how that feel, & there are still times when my emotions bubble up to the surface. It may be a nostalgic memory of a family vacation. It may be a hymn sung on Sunday morning. Yet I will never pretend to know how a parent's death affects anyone else.

Where does that leave us? It leaves us with what the Bible promises. We have a God who rose from the dead. Our Savior defeated death by trampling over death. One day we, too, will see our Redeemer face-to-face. There is a heaven. There will be a resurrection. There will be a joyful reunion. 

When we're left with more questions than answers, we put our hope & trust in our Savior. We grieve, but we do not mourn as those who have no hope.

Leckband Cornhusker State Blog Lite

Retirement Odyssey . . . R + 58 . . . Blog-less no more

My lifestyle still hasn't changed measurably since I officially retired on 3/1/17, but I'm not complaining. I write for Orphan Grain Train on Mon-Tue-& Wed mornings. I travel to Lincoln on Wed afternoons & stay thru Thu & Fri, helping my daughter Sarah & my two grand-daughters Brianna & Hadley while my son-in-law is deployed.

I've been in a cycle of cluster headaches for a a few weeks now. I'm racing through the medicine I take at the onset of these headaches, using them much more frequently than I'm supposed to. My greatest fear? I'm suffering brain damage & nobody is noticing.

Lois just made another hotel reservation for this summer, so I think we've got all our lodging covered for our summer road grips. I'm especially looking forward to our Hill Family Couples Bash in July, where I can feel free to discuss my political views. *

* "Doubt it." [Paul's Blog Consultant Team Coordinator. **]
** Lois

Thanks to my gifted children, who shall remain nameless *, my blog is up & running again. Based on the feedback I've gotten from a plethora of feckless FB "friends," I'm going to try to keep these posts short yet meaningless.

* Nathan & Sarah

Just a test

This is just a test to see if my blog is up & running again.

Mental Health Monday

This is a test. It's a test because:

• On 3/9/17, Bentley & I, while rough-housing on the sofa, knocked over a glass of water onto our laptop.
• I take full responsibility for this mishap, which was due to my carelessly.
• Eventually I took the aforementioned laptop to a technician, who told me:
• "Your motherboard has massive water corrosion."
• Translation:  "Your motherboard is toast."

This is a mental health toast because:

1. I'm using our new laptop, which doesn't have a FB program downloaded on it yet.
2. My son Nathan, a member of my crack consulting team, downloaded Google Chrome onto this machine.
3. This enabled me to access my blog.
4. However, because someone couldn't remember his passwords, he couldn't access his FB accounts.
5. This has created a heeeyuuuge amount of anxiety this morning.

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