Well, I think you deserve that post because you're being so cheerful and showing such firm resolve.
Some religious people believe that they serve the Lord at His pleasure, for a while on Earth, and then in Heaven, and that it's entirely up to Him when is which. These people believe that the trials on Earth -- even the physical suffering - which He does not cause but which exist in our deeply fractured word because of all human sin -- are an opportunity, and that one can tell the truth about who God is and His mercy, and evangelicize well, simply by bearing the trials with grace.
I have met such people. They are amazingly cool, and pretty much proof of God. And since God wishes us to worship Him, surely He shows great favor to those who bear earthly trials with the joy of sure salvation.
It's a weird thing to say, of course, because no one should *expect* or *demand* that someone who is sick be cheerful, but when you meet a person who is -- or who tries so convincingly -- it really *is* inspirational and it does remind you of Christ's presence among us.
OK, that said, LOL, yup, I've been popping back in now and then. Hoping that by now um perhaps Billie's forgotten that I totally abandoned her. But I *have* got a lot of church-going, quilting, and reading in since I redid my schedule, and that was my goal, so I'm probably not feeling as guilty as I should . . . . ;) Well, you truly our one of Freeper's finest. I always look for your posts.
P.S. True story: it's verrry cold in DC and I'm leading Mama_Bear and JustAmy through the cold to the Metro after dinner to get them home. As we walk quickly through the cold, I'm pointing things out: here's where the DC Chapter eats (Luigis), etc. Then I see I building and I point to it and I say, "And here's where a lawyer's office is -- a lawyer that I just soundly beat in a courtcase." A silence ensues. Hmm, everyone's wondering how THAT's relevant to the price of tea in China. And then I laugh to myself: "Hmm, Mama_Bear's probably used to my cheerful meglomania, I bet that's just the sort of thing she'd EXPECT me to say." Hee hee. Well, I wish you could have had tea with us. Everyone was entirely charming. JustAmy wore this white pin-on corsage, the little girl had her tea had, and Mama_Bear wore this blue dress that was shiny and stylish and of complex design. If wolfie had seen us girls in our tea dresses, and Lori in particular, for thos two frolic often, well, there's no accounting for what might have happened! Happily, no wolves permitted at the Ritz-Carlton.