Wake up calls.

Do you ever have days or moments where you just take a gander at your life and are totally in awe? Yea, me too. Like today, for instance. It started out a little rough. You see...I'm not Positive Patty about this whole depolyment thing. In fact, I'm Negative Nancy. Sometimes. But other times, I get over myself. Rare...but it does happen. Today I had a dear friend call me. This little gal played a pretty big role in my life my first two years of college. She's one of those few people you meet and then life takes you your separate ways, but you are always deep-down friends. Soul sistas, if you will. Well, we went to a concert that they were having at the Rexburg Tabernacle (a beautiful building, if you have never been inside. And another addition to my list of why Rexburg is my favorite place on the planet). Anyway...it was an orchestra concert (zzzZZZzzz). But, actually, it was really good. Like goosebump good. And during one of the movements I had one of those moments.

I looked around me and saw an audience of white hair and wrinkles (cutie pa-tooties). It got me thinking about how short life is. Each one of them was my age at one time. They were newlyweds once, too. They may have even been separated from their spouses a time or two...many of them endured the earthly separation from their sweethearts. And now..time had taken its toll. Or so it would seem. Really, time has just flown by and refined each one until now they come to Wednesday night community concerts to watch their grandchildren and great grandchildren play beautiful music that brings back memories of how good life has been.

Do you ever think about where you were three years ago from an exact moment in the present? I thought about that during Beethoven. Who would've thought three years ago...when I was a Sophomore in college and a roommate and a pen-pal to a missionary...that I would be sitting in the Rexburg Tabernacle listening to an orchestra, surrounded by grannies, sitting next to an old friend and roomie, and now the wife to that missionary? Blows my mind. Time goes so fast! I hope I will enjoy each moment...and go to more Wednesday night concerts.