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A friend emailed me recently with the awful news heard on the Nashville radio on her way to work that Steven Curtis Chapman’s 5-year-old daughter, Maria, had been killed. What an awful tragedy. It’s so incredibly sad on so many levels. My friend told me she hugged her son extra hard and extra long that morning as she left him at day care.

Today I was checking out the new albums in iTunes when I came across Steven’s new album. My blood chilled when I listened to his new song “Cinderella”. The message that comes through is even stronger knowing that this album was released just 1 week after his daughter’s death. I didn’t buy his entire album, but I bought this song and one other, “Beautiful Scars.”

Hug your loved ones “extra special” today.

Live version for an adoption blog - click to view lyrics

Recorded Version - click to view lyrics

There’s a delightful video of Maria and her dad here.

God be with your family, Steven, especially your son.

www.stevencurtischapman.com

This morning DH didn’t feel well and decided to stay home from work. I admit it, I’m spoiled in the mornings since I can put on my mascara, have another cup of coffee, and spice up my lips during the commute while he drives. I really need advance notice (30 minutes would be good) when he isn’t going to be driving. That puts a whole different spin on my morning preparations.

I can drive the truck just fine, but I have a few little problem areas, like seeing out the back. I sit short, and the truck is long. The route that DH takes has a tricky on-ramp to the Interstate. That route is not my choice. My route takes longer, which means I need to leave earlier. Today, by the time we got sorted out whether he was going or staying, I left the house later than usual.

I backed out of the driveway and drove 1/2 block to the stop sign, then waited for traffic to allow me to turn left. Meanwhile, a lady pulled up opposite me wanting to turn right. Feeling generous, I let her go first. Mistake. She drove ahead of me to the traffic light, then stopped in the middle of the road, ready to turn left. I needed to go right. If she had pulled over a little, I could have scooched by her and been on my merry way. So, I waited. Sigh.

I finally made the turn and got behind a slow car. Great. You know how it goes–the slow poke makes it through the next light; you don’t. So, I sat. And sat. And sat, waiting for the left turn arrow.

A movement to my left caught my eye. Oh no. It’s a pedestrian. He’s going to want to cross where I want to turn. Sigh. OH NO. It’s a one-legged man! My mind was racing as I looked at the clock, knowing I was probably going to be late for work. That’s bad. Let’s see….he is on crutches, I have a ton of horsepower….I could outrun him….

But no. I did the right thing and gave him the right-of-way. As I waited for him to cross 5 lanes of traffic and a median, I asked God to bless me and give me a tailwind since I was putting others ahead of myself. My heart truly went out to the man who was an expert at propelling himself forward on his crutches. He was trying to hurry, and I think I saw him stumble. All of a sudden he took a very, very long stride with his only leg.

I was very thankful for my legs as I waited for him to pass. When I turned the corner, the one-legged-man was scurrying down the sidewalk on his crutches, his pink hair pick, firmly secured in the back of his Afro, bobbing up and down. I prayed that God would bless him. I’m sure he has a hard life. And, God blessed me, too. I clocked in at 7:58–had 2 whole minutes to spare!

I finally got my blog back in good working order after upgrading WordPress. It appears the culprit was Internet Explorer. I really should have known better than to use IE to get the upgrade files, because it has caused problems before. I have checked every setting known to man, but somehow IE still continues to block whatever files it wants. I have the same problem at work. Grrrrrrrrrrrr…… I discovered this last night while trying to perform the upgrade again. Somehow I must have missed the warning message the first time around…

Last night I started the upgrade again from square 1, using Firefox to download the files. No problem. All is working again as expected.

I just finished my class on Intermediate CSS and now understand how quirky IE is. Thanks to all you programmers out there who go to the extra trouble for IE users.

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