Fear, Comfort, "Not Alone". Thoughts and the to the letter F

"Interesting" the things you rememeber. Sometimes it is a contrast, a lesson, a fear, or a moment of thankfulness, and those times just never leave you. Simple things, sometimes. I remember when I was very young, perhaps 3 or 4, and I was walking behind our little house. I saw a Sun Flower. I picked it and the stem was hollow and a bug was inside. It scared me. It may be the earliest memory of fear that I can now recall. Sunflowers often take me back. Many, many years later I moved to Albuquerque. I will always remember driving away from our home. Kathy and Zach were on the front steps. Then I spent a few months living alone for the first time in my life. I will always remember the surprise that living alone was. I felt the "Arms of an Angel" many times. I did not feel alone. I knew I was ok and that the Lord was with me and my family. Then again last summer I left and for short periods each week I lived alone. One night I looked out of the Hotel Window. Sometimes you have moments that reality hits you. The feelings were mixed. I did feel like it was indeed dark and cold. Then I also rememered the same feeling of comfort. I wasn't alone. I knew it would be alright. Often when I hear the song that talks about the arms of an angel and I hear the verse "cold dark hotel room" I think of this picture and I remember those feelings. Memories are too few. How blessed we are to have help and comfort when we need it.
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In the arms of an angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cold hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You’re in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort there

You’re in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

Sarah McLachlan

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Today the books read and re read list goes to letter "F"......................

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Fadiman, Anne .................Ex Libris confessions of Common Reader
Franklin, Benjamin..............Selections Poor Richards Almanac
Fleming, Thomas ...............The new dealers war FDR and war within WWII
Foster, Thomas C..................How to read literature like a Professor
Freud, Sigmund ...............Totem and Taboo
Faulkner, William..............As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William ............A critical commentary of As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William.............Selected Letters
Frazier, Charles .............Cold Mountain
Fucini, Joseph J...................Entrepreneurs
Fixx’s, Jim ................Second Book of Running
Fixx, Jim ..............The Complete Book of Running

Firmage, Edwin Brown......... Paul and the Expansion of the Church Today

Freiberg, Kevin & Jackie.............Nuts! Southwest Airlines