But only one thing is certain; the mighty river is rushing towards the ocean, and all the drops that constitute the stream will in time be drawn into the boundless ocean. So, in this life, with all its miseries and sorrows, its joys and smiles and tears, one thing is certain, that all things are rushing toward their goal, and it: is only a question of time when you and I, and plants and animals, and every particles of life that exists must reach the Infinite ocean of Perfection, must attain to freedom, to God.
Vivekananda
I do not know where exactly this mighty river is taking us but man it pulls hard some times, doesn't it? D. and I might wish to change our names to "Calamity Jane, and Jeopardy Jack" as we are swept along. It is absolutely uncanny: the number and intensity of "things" that we experienced together in the last ten years...crazy big things so few people in the world experience to this intensity and extent...in one decade. It's movie making stuff lol.
And it keeps pulling....
We were meant to go away today...an escape from all "this"... but Life had different plans for us. I have another infection in my mouth ...took less than a week at the end of the 6th round of antibiotics since April to manifest...and I was hestitantly going to risk ignoring it even though I knew we would not have access to health care where we were going...pretty rural. I really do not want to go on another round of antibiotics...my belly is wrecked...but I woke up this morning with the gums even more swollen again and that pain in my cheek saying, "IE, IE, IE"! Ugh!!! So, I called the dentist and I got in for an appointment today!! That's good because I feel fevered...not sure if it is the mouth or the gut leading to this feeling like crap?
As I said, I would have ignored it and taken my chances...but ironically D. woke up with what I thought was pleurisy that has been going on for the last couple of nights. I encouraged him to go off to the ER early this am. I cannot do much driving because I still do not have full ROM in my neck...still cannot look over my shoulders...so he is going to be the only driver or at least the dominant driver on this trip. I couldn't allow that if he was in pain and unwell. Crap!! So, we rearranged our bookings, fortunately, and are going to try to sneak off tomorrow! Hopefully, we are both feeling better by then. Sigh! Otherwise it will be a big loss in many ways.
So, the journey of Calamity Jane and Jeopardy Jack continues as they bob and thrash along in this river of Life with all its miseries and sorrows, its joys, smiles and tears. No doubt, we will someday reach that Infinite Ocean where we will find perfection, freedom, and God. We will then fully realize that all these so called challenges were necessary to our growth. We will be transformed into "Joyful Jane and Jubilant Jack". We will eventually see the unnecessity for the titles "Jane and Jack" and just be joyful and jubilant Life.
All s well.
