This Post Prompted by Liberty's Torch Today

 Fran was ruminating on the Meaning of Life, and What is Best in Life, and such.

Ah, well, after the manic excitement of the years of your youth, comes the slog of Ordinary Life.

Family, bills, home maintenance, dealing with difficult people. The list is endless and often tedious.

Like children, many of us find ourselves LIVING for the celebrations, holidays, and long planned distractions. For many, the day to day is hard to bear.

Some escape into fantasy - media, daydreams, hot text conversations that dance excitedly around the edges of infidelity.

Some go harder into the escape - chemical release, nonstop complaints/spending, porn, and even the heavy thrill of walking away from the annoying and dull spouse.

At least, they're all exciting until the bill comes due.

Real Life seldom lives up to our modern fantasies. Few exotic sunsets, lifting champagne glasses from the comfort of a steamy hot club with wealthy semi-strangers.

Few occasions when lavish dispersal of 'the Benjamins' reap you obsequious attention from staff and hangers-on.

On the other hand, as The Beatles sang, Money Can't Buy You Love.

It CAN buy you access to medical care/doctors, but it cannot buy you Health.

For that matter, money cannot buy you Salvation. The Bible is filled with stories about the impossibility of buying your way into Heaven.

Faith CAN bring you ease of mind. 

Why am I focused on this today?

I've been dealing with the fallout of a loved one's medical crises. It started this summer, with ER visits and hospital admissions, followed by release back home with medical appointments scheduled.

Followed with, before the appointments could be completed, yet another admission for similar or different issues.

Again. And again. All summer, and into the fall.

My poor sister bore the brunt in the beginning. I was sidelined with recovery for my knee replacement (which is doing VERY well just now).

As I gained mobility, I took on more of the weight of the responsibility. As of today, I'm the primary for Health and Financial issues.

That's fair - her husband has some health issues himself, as does she.

Thanks to text messages and other modern assists, the situation is manageable. Family members, friends, and my brother's church community are stepping up.

We have surprisingly little information as yet. Tests have been done. They mostly have ruled out some diagnoses, rather than finding out what is WRONG.

Today, I have to meet with people at his bank to learn how to execute the Financial POA, at least to the extent of paying bills and dealing with taxes. Life goes on, as do the bills.

The one thing I've been leaning on, other than my husband, is prayer. If you've not been using technology, try my favorite app - Hallow. I've begun using the audio prayers regularly. The free version works, but I liked it so much I paid for a subscription.