Having a bit of a hard time with this heat this week. My old free temp gauge from the local service station with their logo on it remains above 95 degrees most of the day. Evening cools a bit but not much. The only break we have got is that the humidity is not all that bad. How bad is it really? I trade my coffee cup for a large glass of SWEET tea when on the porch…How long a ponder determines the number of glasses. I didn’t have to have a lot of time to decide that this weeks ponder has to do with reality. 

   “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” 

Reality… I sometimes think that we lost all sense of it. To me we are like walking a switch-back road…you can’t really look back to see where you’ve been and you can only see a short distance ahead to where you are going. Consider this…eggs where $3.97 a dozen here at Aldi… I have to ponder why. If they are in short supply why don’t they ever run out of them at that price? Remember in the 70’s the inflation and loss of jobs in the textile industry…just one segment of the job thing. It was rough for all of us, the reality was that most prices doubled and the reality was they never came down. Most folks don’t do reality well. There are a lot of things that get in the way of this thing called reality. I won’t subject you to a long list of stuff but just say the sales of Ross Colored Glasses is higher and denial makes the lenses. Now there is one thing that enhances denial of reality… hope for a better day. This time on the porch I am Pondering a situation that involves the approval of the Government and an insurance company. Reality is I will never walk again without help… a person, a device or an alternative means of moving around… That is reality. Consider this… we began the process of aging with the first breath we take and that is a God ordained thing. You can’t fool mother nature. There is nothing better than a good dose of reality plus a good ponder… to make your day complete. You see Pondering is in the Bible. So if you are pondering this age thing, read this…Jesus said to Peter…

John 21: 18… “I tell you the truth, when you were young, you were able to do as you liked; you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and other’s will dress you and take you where you don’t want to go.” (NLT)

This is REALITY.

Kurt