It’s Christmas Eve day and all things considered….I’m in a pretty nice little place emotionally and physically considering I’m in chemo quarantine while my wife’s family is going through a very tough Christmas.
This chemo drug I’m on isn’t really knocking me down. I feared that. I was apprehensive going into this phase of my Stage 4 journey. But so far… ‘we’ve got this.’ I feel God right there with me hand in hand every step of the way.
There are always silver linings. You have to open your eyes, open your heart…. and feel all of the good things which have blessed your life and are still just around the corner.
I watched about five minutes of the Thunder’s win over the tanking Washinton Wizards and you know…it was their eighth straight regular season win sandwiched around the blowout loss to Milwaukee in the NBA Cup Finals.
Jaylin Williams is back and healthy again as the Thunder are very much on pace to possibly win 60 games this NBA regular season. I love Jaylin’s smile. Is there an NBA metric for smile quality? It would seem the Thunder are very much in control of their destiny as far as gaining the Western Conference No. 1 seed for a second consectutive regular season.
We are not going to know anything really about the Thunder until we see what they are in the Western Conference semis. That’s when we’ll begin to discover what this team is or isn’t when it’s money time.
My Packers are trending in a very encouraging manner while we all know the Detroit Lions are banged up and the Minnesota Vikings have a propensity for late season choking. Minus the very talented Philadelphia Eagles…I would think Jordan Love and his Packers have more than a puncher’s chance of making some noise in the NFC Playoffs.
Green Bay did it just right in the manner in which they moved Aaron Rodgers to the NY Jets. It couldn’t have been orchestrated any better. Bravo…Green Bay front office! I hurt watching Aaron right now. It literally hurts me.
Anyway…it’s Christmas Eve. Embrace the season. Try and bring joy to all of those who you come in contact with.
‘Blessed are those kind of heart
For they shall see the light of God.’
Whenever I’m down…I close my eyes and pray the Beatitudes to myself. Other than Psalms 23…it’s my favorite part of the Bible. So positive…so full of hope.
Maybe tomorrow morning I’ll do the whole thing. It’s beautiful.
Mike J