Happy Birthday, David!/New Computer

This is my first time to blog on my new computer. We bought it several months ago, but Bill didn't want to have it installed until he finished his last on-line class. I am home in the afternoons now, so it was the first chance to have it installed. It's a flatscreen desk model. The print is big which is wonderful for senior citizens.

Today is my brother David's birthday. We are all praying that he will have the gift of physical freedom soon.

This is the first January that I have taught. In the past, our student enrollment was so low at this time that I was furloughed. Actually, I was in Chicago last January! I'm teaching two hours of grammar in the morning, eat lunch with the other teachers and then go home. I am getting sooo much done in the afternoon. Yesterday, I filed all of the mail from the past week that needed to be kept. Today, I went through our magazine basket and threw away the old copies that have been read. I even stopped for awhile and finished a crossword puzzle. Perhaps I can get the clutter out of this house before I get called back.

A few years ago, one of my students gave me an inspirational calendar with only numbers. I have used it over and over. Today, I read: "Sainthood springs out of suffering. It takes eleven tons of pressure on a piano to tune it. God will tune you to harmonize with heaven's keynote if you can stand the strain."