Timing – Friday’s Fave Five

They say “Timing is everything.”  I don’t know about “everything,” but I do agree that timing can be really important.

Here are five timings I am thankful for this week:

1. My dad’s doctor visit
My family tends to be late to the party to make an appointment with a doctor. We prefer the “give it time” approach first, which usually works just as well for the minor things we have.  But I’m thankful that my dad went to the doctor a few weeks ago after only a few weeks of feeling bad. They haven’t given him a diagnosis yet, but at least the process of testing has begun, and I’m finding comfort in that.

2. My own doctor visit
Although the jury is still out on the effectiveness of this one, I am thankful that I made myself go to the doctor Monday morning to get started on antibiotics for my ear infection. I can’t tell much difference yet, but I’m guessing it would have been worse by now if I hadn’t gone at all.

3. Jenna’s cooking lessons
On Thanksgiving Eve, the granddaughters usually spend the night at my m-i-l’s house. The timing was actually bad for most of the girls this year, but turned out to be very good for Jenna getting one-on-one kitchen time with Mama Jo. Now Jenna can cook the Thanksgiving dinner next year. Right, Jenna?

4. Visit with Morgan
Morgan was able to make it to Mama Jo’s last night in time for round 2 of turkey and dressing. I’m thankful our visits there overlapped so we could spend some time together, and so she could experience her inaugural opening day of duck hunting season with the men very early this cold morning. 

5. Getting the tree up
The day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas season begins in our house. Jeff and Jenna usually set up the tree together, but since he’d be hunting this morning, he made time instead on Thanksgiving morning to assemble it. Now it’s all ready for Jenna and I to make it pretty with ornaments this morning, before the Auburn/Alabama game this afternoon. War Eagle!

* * *

      And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 
     that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 
     for 'In him we live and move and have our being'. . . .  
    Acts 17:26-28

For more favorites of this week, visit Susanne at Living to Tell the Story.