where or where did the weeks go? really where? my last total recollection was the thursday before good friday before we all got hit by the tidal wave of winter sickness's......one after another....it seems i am finally able to get to the surface and inhale some air without gulping in some more nasty sickness...ok so officially i'm sick of being sick and all that comes along with it.
Checking out from this party and moving on. Spring is here.........pollen and all.

It's in the cross!!!!

yesterday on my way back to the condo to pack for home i saw a very old asian man running like the wind carrying a wooden cross in one hand and lifting the other in the sky and running as fast as he could possible run , as if he was almost running for his very life............not sure what to make of him i made a comment to mike that it was really odd to see that in kapalua where all you usually see are tourist out for their morning runs........ he said"yeah...crazy", so i dismissed it as odd and filed that picture somewhere in the back of my mind and thoughts of packing came rushing back in, after all i had an airplane to catch and all that goes along with that, even forgetting that good friday was tomorrow........well tonight the picture just popped back into my very tired mind as i was heading off to bed, and it is at the foot of the cross i now find myself this hour, reflecting on a savior who loved a sinner like me and took my place on the cross, a death i know i deserved, as he himself was sinless...me ...not so much......i have a life time of shame on my plate, my cross to bear no more, i just cannot get my mind around it, but i know that i know in my heart and soul it is the truth. i have never been one to believe something without question, but the fact that Jesus died so a wretch like me could be saved, this i do not find myself ever questioning , it is the truth, not because it benefits me, but because i feel the love that surround's me, a love that fills a hole deep in my heart that no other love has ever filled and my heart tells me that i am forgiven by a loving father who created me and that i have a purpose in life, just like that asian man who was running with that wooded cross, his purpose you ask.....well ...he got my attention and lots of other's ......THE CROSS!!!!! .
my purpose........well, that i am not so sure of, but i know we all have one, so until i realize just where GOD wants to use me and i let go and let him ...i will remain in his grace captured by his love and washed in the water and saved in the blood..............IT IS FINISHED!!!! JESUS DID THAT FOR US ALL!!!!!!

OMG!!!!! almost 3/4 of this family vacation is over and i can honestly say i don't know where the time has gone, oh except the 4 1/2 mile walk...(yeah right...up hill hike) chad scammed me into yesterday ...that seemed liked it took FOREVER......when he said it was going to be fun i believed him...forgetting he is a insane when it comes to exercise...but trust me i will never make that mistake twice......it seems we dreamed and planned and saved and dreamed some more and now as we are here and enjoying it to the fullest, it is flying by.....we have ate, played and relaxed with the best of em.........i have gotta figure out a way to make Maui ...home....:) aloha! living by grace....