Prayer for the Ignorant

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller

Recently someone asked a friend of mine, why would you give a blind person flowers?They cannot see them! It's not mean-spirited. He thought, he was being funny. In this case, ignorance is not bliss. It is stupid. I don't like the word stupid, but sometimes, there's just no other word!

Lord, I pray that you may give compassion and wisdom to the ignorant! Amen.

My First Children's Book Writers Conference

​Looking forward to attending my first children's book writing conference today, with Maureen Dwyer. Signed up to go last year, but was called to initiate a little baby into the Lord's world through Baptism. :) However, I did have my first manuscript reviewed by an editor. Her insight helped me put the finishing touches on Cindy Lou And Sammy Too Go To The Mall, The Adventure of a Guide Dog Team, which was released in September 2014.

Wishing you all a day full of sunshine and hope. Cheryl

Car Service Adventure!

​Tuesday morning the car service was scheduled to pick me up at 7:30 am, for a 9 am appointment in White Plains (an hour from my home). At 7:35, I thought, I better confirm that someone is on the way.

“Oh, S…!” is what I heard after I was asked to hold on. Hmm, I thought! This is not good. The dispatcher apologizes for the mix up. A car will be at my house by 8 am. Okay. That can work.

I get to the car and open the back door, because the driver didn't get out of the vehicle.. First thing he says, “The dog comes too?” After he watched me struggle, leaning over Sanka and trying to get the door closed, he decides to get out and in a slow meandering walk, come around to shut the door. It’s now 8:10am..

In Newburgh, he stops. “I have to gas up.” Oh, and did I mention we were having a bit of a communication challenge? After filling up and chatting with a man in the lot, he get in and announces, " I have to put air in the tires." "We want to have a safe ride, since we are going to the circus, with all the traffic." What? I'm thinking, I am already there! We left Newburgh at 8:45 am. :)

I was doing some work, when I began to feel whoozie. I asked which way he was going? “9W. We just crossed the Bear Mountain Bridge.” We just came over Storm King Mountain and were about to go over Bear MountainBy the way…..I get carsick in the back seat!. Yep…an adventure, indeed! J

We got there safely, a bit late.... Yes, I was able to accomplish my business. Through it all, the most disheartening discovery was that this nice man, has been in the United States for 58 years and still has difficulty communicating English. What else can I say? It is discouraging to have the communication difficulty, even more so, because I can’t see what he may be trying to communicate.