When we moved the family from El Dorado, Arkansas to Charlotte, I used a 26 foot UHAUL in a very dangerous journey, particularly though Atlanta. Fatigue was upon me and I had a full van, and occasionally my right tire would leave the road. I could feel the angels giving the top of a van a gentle tap to keep us upright.
We lived in the southern part of the Steele Creek area in a nice rental provided from Park Avenue Properties and due to builder delays was able to extend our lease to 13 months.
The movers we hired to get us from the South side of Steele Creek to the Northern side used a 24 foot truck and some 5% of our belongings remained on the South side. Well today we moved it all in a 10 foot UHAUL. While it has yet to be sorted, all our stuff is in one place now.
All of my younger children, Matthew, Katherine, Theresa, and Anne-Marie participated and the job was done in under 4 hours. As a reward, we stepped over the South Carolina line for ice cream at Bruster's Ice Cream Farm . BRAVO ZULU to all!
I still haven't sat down to do my bills yet, but it's coming!
I had a nice phone call from Cherie Fill, and old friend from The Saint Benedict Center who was urging me to adopt the Green Scapular in addition to the Brown I currently wear. So I accepted, and she'll be mailing me one, once it's blessed. I was in turn urging her to read about one of my favorite devotions - The Daily Pilgrimage to Purgatory and with November coming upon us, it would be great to get some advanced orders of these pamphlets, stock the bookstore, and spread the devotion to members of the Saint Benedict Center. I urge all my readers to look into this as well.
Also today, my wife gave me the URL to an article my daughter Sarah wrote just recently - it even comes with a picture of her smiling face! Take a look at The Daughters of Charity!
I am so immensely proud of everyone, and I welcome all the interest from old friends.
A thought occurred to me today about my focuses of this blog. Chiefly, it's intended to be a spiritual journal. It will contain some daily incidents, it may have technical information and articles of my cancer treatment - but I will also use it to chronicle some memoirs from time to time. It's time to put many of these precious memories to a written record. Let my children know about the memories that have given me, that have also shaped my life as well as theirs. And well it won't just be restricted to my children either. There have been many things said to me, or things I have read that have made me what I am today and it would be a pleasure to write about them.
Oh and also if you do see spelling or grammatical errors in any post, I welcome the input and I will edit them as needed. (apparently I even typed Kimberley's name wrong on my very first post!) Well it prompted a Skype message from Japan, so it wasn't all bad. I wish I could say I actually planned it, but I didn't.
any way,
Pax Vobiscum,
Eric
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