January...a month of snow, sickness, and screwed up sleep schedule

It is hard for me to believe that it is already January 31st. As I get older it seems that each day slowly passes by while the month slips away. January has been a month of snow, sickness, and screwed up sleep schedule. It started with such promise, but is ending with sadness for opportunities missed.

January was filled with snow... Snow showers where beautiful fancy flakes of snow drifted softly from the sky. Snow storms where the snow seemed to be dumped from dark clouds. Snow blizzards where snow was blown and whirled and threatened and drifted. Snow and more snow.

January was filled with sickness... Migraines with the need for silence, solitude, darkness, and drugs. Stomach flu with aches and pains relieved with tylenol and mylanta and crackers. Depression that saddened my heart and sapped my strength and was resistant to medicine and ultra violet lamps.

January was filled with a screwed up sleep schedule. Nights turned to days. Days turned to nights. Feeling off kilter. Feeling blah. Feeling sad. Out of sync with the world. Reading, reading, and more reading-- being entertained but not fulfilled. Not doing, or blogging, or really even being--just passing time.

But...

Today is a new dawn, a new day, a new opportunity, a new hope, a new mercy... and God is God!