Roses

I feel so very blessed to have so many roses. Our first Christmas in Fallbrook, Craig gave me a dozen rose bushes. There were several already planted and these 12 just added to the beauty. Spring is the time for enormous and amazing blossoms from the rose bushes. We have 4 vases filled with roses also to enjoy inside. It really is so pretty.

My reactions

Often while on my morning walks with Natasha we pass an older gentleman walking his golden lab. This lab is a bigger dog and every time we pass the lab lunges at Natasha with the hair on the back of his neck up and growls. Every time the owner has to bring his dog under control. Today was no exception, I was prepared for the lunge but apparently his owner was not. As the lab lunged, he kept coming so I immediately put myself between Natasha and him, turning my back to the owner. The thoughts went through my mind why is this dog still coming and then I turned around and saw the owner rolling on the ground. For a moment I pondered how I was going to keep the dogs apart and help this gentleman, but before I could do anything he got himself up. I was surprised the lab then just turned from Natasha and walked back to his owner. I kept asking him if he was okay and he said "yes, I wasn't prepared for that." I know he hurt his hand somehow because he kept shaking it, I am hoping it is a minor scrape or something simple. I don't know what I could have done different, I personally wonder what I would have done if the dog attacked Natasha. I just keep wondering why do I feel guilty about the incident.

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Our Birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting.

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of GLORY do we come

From GOD, who is our home.

Intimations of Immortality

-William Wordsworth

I had never read those words before but I believe them. I was introduced to them in my McKay Today Magazine - spring 2010. I believe we are all children of God and apparently William Wordsworth did too.