Five Random Things Saturday

1. I noticed that my right eyebrow sits lower than my left eyebrow. It's a slight difference, but I wonder if other people notice it. It's been like that as long as I can remember, but I was looking in the mirror the other day, and it seemed that the right brow was drooping more than it usually does. Today,though, it seems normal, like it's always looked in the past. And it sometimes gives me a bit of a worry that it's Bell's palsy. I can be such a worrier.

2. I think I'm the only person on the planet who actually flosses her teeth every day. And you know, I actually sort of hate doing it, but I do it anyway. I haven't had a cavity in many, many years. I attribute it to flossing.

3. I watched my nephew, and he brought a wrist rocket. A wrist rocket! Basically a sling fit for your arm to launch projectiles into the wild blue yonder. We took it out front and fired some rocks off into the field. It's actually really fun to launch rocks like that. More important...I like hanging out with Peyton. We played football and Lincoln Logs and watched baseball. He even wanted me to sit near him while he played on the computer. I adore that boy!

4. From Elder Oaks: "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ prepares you for whatever life brings. This kind of faith prepares you to deal with life’s opportunities—to take advantage of those that are received and to persist through the disappointments of those that are lost." While preparing a lesson on trusting in God, I discovered this little gem. I especially like that last clause - that true faith helps us "persist through the disappointments of those [opportunities] that are lost." Sometimes I think that life is a lesson in accepting lost chances. Perhaps that is because lost chances teach us to take advantage of opportunities that place themselves in our paths now. Probably everyone has regrets. Like failing and falling short, those disappointments help us to rise up to new opportunities. I most certainly believe that is what faith is - it teaches us to persist through the most rueful moments in our lives. it teaches us that new chances will come. It teaches us that we can take hold of those chances and move forward.

5. I'm thinking of a friend that I'm really grateful for. She took me in when I needed help. I was moving to Newark, but I needed a place to stay for a few days before I could move into my new apartment. She had an extra bedroom, and she offered it to me freely. Otherwise I would have had to spend the weekend in a hotel...and that would have been expensive, people. Then an emergency came up, and she had to travel to Arizona with her sister. But she went out of her way to make sure a key was left with a neighbor, give me directions by subway to get to her house and the contact information I needed to get into her apartment. She did this even though her sister was in the middle of a full blown crisis, and she had to get ready to leave without any notice. What a good and true friend you are Kamilah Grace! I love you.