Top of the morning to you. I am inches better this morning. I am enjoying a few things... reading, painting, being with family and friends, the night sky, and hopeful. It would seem to reason that if I lived it is for a reason. You too have a reason for being here under the heavens. Suffering can drawl us closer to God or farther away depending on the path we choose. I know we are trying to hard to stay focused on God; I know even on the days I am in so much pain that I cannot think out of it... even so my heart and soul belong to God. We live in such a physical world yet God wants us to be spiritual and have a relationship with Him. I need to grow beyond my vast material wants and be more spiritually based. The foundation is there but what I have tried to build on top of it is a house full of so much material stuff. I just want my mind to be less focused on accumulating stuff and be looking at my life in spiritual terms. take care, hugs and love