Thomas Trip

My feet ache because I spent five hours walking around Heritage Park. My lower back aches because of the backpack and my neck aches because of the big camera. There is a set of muscles in my right thigh that are telling me I could have done a better job perching on a fence post to get the perfect picture of a train. This morning forty-five minutes after I woke up, I found myself using math skills to calculate how to duplicate an engineer lantern. I'm not the only one who is feeling the morning after the day before. Big Lug's feet ache, hands ache, lower back aches and he even has a matched set of blisters on his hands.

For me, Thomas the Tank Engine is in Calgary. Kidlet and I had an excellent time with my best friend and her son. Big Lug, on the other hand, can hold his head high; puff out his chest and give a Tim Allen grunt for working together with one of his buddy's to build a new gate. I love Big Lug dearly but when it comes to home improvement, let's just say he's no Bob Villa. Thankfully he has the good sense to realize this and make friends with guys who are Bob Villa.

Sunday felt like a truly God blessed day, with good weather, everything going reasonably smoothly and time spent with fellow Christians. It's nice to sit underneath a tree in a public park and have a child say grace before eating lunch or to know that two men working together aren't going to get drunk off beer, just sugar buzzed off pop. Of course if it was a hot summer day, there would have been a few beer consumed but the men wouldn't have used the home renovations as an excuse to get drunk.

As for the health issues, Big Lug and I both know the best way to get rid of the aches is to carefully work the feet and back muscles as well as take it easy with our hands. We are also firm believers in the healing power of prayer, combined with the wisdom God blesses us with. It is thanks to His healing power and gift of wisdom that enabled us to have a day like yesterday. For many weeks I was sick. I had to humble myself, swallow my pride and ask God for help. The direction He guided me in was a difficult one for someone who believes in natural healing first and foremost. I am grateful to the doctors who have helped me on the road to health, along with God guiding me to people and things that will help what the doctors and nurses are doing for me. That's what makes yesterday so special. I was healthy enough to spend five hours with my son, in the outdoors, feeling God's power sustaining me on a physical, mental and emotional level.

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.