
Screwtape Revisited
July 23, 2006Widget is busy watching Larry Boy and the Fib from Outer Space (Veggie Tales are her new favorite series of videos and I find them quite silly) and T is working (again), so I have a chance to get back to the section I quoted in this post because I feel as if I spend/have spent a lot of time in the “troughs” and not a lot in the “peaks” of life over the last few years, particularly this past year. And yes, I have spent many hours dwelling on all of it, even when I’m feeling fairly good. Reading back through this blog and the countless e-mails I sent PH in this last year, I see that. Maybe not the best of things for me to do. However, every now and then, I get whacked over the head with the reminder that without the “trough” I was last summer/fall, I don’t know that I would have ever made a true commitment to live my life for Christ. This passage was one. And so was this.
A note on the dwelling: If I have any “goals” for therapy, it would be to sort through the “bad” stuff, so I don’t dwell on it anymore. Of course, that probably means I should stick with #5 long enough to actually do that.
And a total change of subject: Does anyone know if it is typical for a toddler Widget’s age (20 months now) to not gain any weight for over 3 months? (Ok, PH should know the answer to that but he hasn’t been reading since he got back from vacation, so I don’t even know that he’ll see this post). I weighed her yesterday and she weighed 25 lbs, which she has weighed every time since oh, March or April. I don’t know if I should be concerned or not.
