Ohio Bound!

We are on the move this afternoon, leaving Newburgh/Evansville, IN after 2 plus weeks with Erin and her family (Evan is two weeks old today!) and heading for Ohio to spend a few days with extended family before heading back to Mount Joy, PA and our trip to Israel. 

We've thoroughly enjoyed this extended time of visiting with both daughters and their families between KY and IN. We've worshiped with both in their respective faith communities, seen some sites of interest, bicycled, read, slept in, and spoiling the grandsons as best we can. We'll be bunking with Bev's mother while in OH while visiting with as much extended family as we can. Saturday, May 9, is my planned meeting time with my siblings to discuss our ongoing caregiving for our mother and step-father, Marian and Don Woolery. We'll be with them on Sunday, May 10, Mother's Day and hopefully having a conversation that will help them to know that we are on the journey with them as they move through this later stage of adult life and development. Bev and I will see my father and step-mother, Norman and Loretta Anspaugh on way back to PA on Wednesday/Thursday, May 13-14. 

A portion of my reading as noted in an earlier blog is "For the Journey," the writings of Howard Thurman. Yesterdays reading "Keep Alive the Dream in the Heart" had a few notable quotes I share with you for your reflection and application:

"As long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living... Men cannot continue long to live if the dream in the heart has perished... Where there is not dream, the life becomes a swamp, a dreary dead place, deep within, a man's heart begins to rot... The dream is quiet persistence in the heart that enables a man to ride out the storms of his churning experiences... Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living."

The masculine language is that of Thurman's era and yet applies to male/female alike. How is your dream?