"Raindrops keep falling on my head ..."

This has been a tremendously rainy spring ... as I heard one of the Detroit Tigers' broadcasters say on the radio this afternoon, "the soggiest spring in recent memory." It has made for challenging runnin - my friend Roger Kappler emailed me today that he feels as if he is training for a Mud and Rain 5K. But I'm trying to keep after it as best I can, and am in the process of psyching myself up now to go out and run a few miles in the rain this afternoon.

Glass half full

Despite the sadness I can't help but feel at the departure of Christy and her family from Michigan, I am trying to find the good features in this change, as well ... and one thing that has strongly impressed me is that it will be WONDERFUL to visit them in Colorado. This picture is from when we were there for their wedding in July 2008, when I "bonded" with a neighboring horse through the fence adjacent to the home where they live.

Life's changing circumstances

This is kind of a bittersweet weekend for me. After being married in Colorado in July 2008 and living there for over a year, my daughter Christy and her husband Reggie have lived in Michigan for well over a year now (and my granddaughter Isabelle, shown here with her "Grandpa AB," was born in Lansing on Feb. 19, 2010).
However, they have hoped to be able to get back to Colorado. Christy and Reggie have both recently procured good jobs there, and Reggie has, in fact, had to be there for a few weeks now. Yesterday afternoon Christy and Isabelle flew out to join him. And while I am a bit sad to see them go, I'm utterly delighted for them, to see the way God has led them and their life is moving forward.