This year started off on a "bittersweet time" in my life  . . . we loss my stepdad at the end of 2017 to Alzheimers.  We celebrated his life with a memorial in his honor two weeks ago at my brother's home. Earlier in the year 2017, we also loss my oldest sister Jeri to kidney cancer. 

2018 will be a much better year, I’m sure and I certainly hope so.

Gratitude seems to calm my heart when I feel overwhelmed . .  it works!

Isaiah 30:29

And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel