Bad Day

Have you ever had a bad day?  Let’s put it this way, the best thing that has happened to me today, so far, is when my computer crashed. Before that it had been downhill all day.  Can you feel my pain. Yet!

I feel almost like a cry baby telling you this but since sometime in February, I think it was when the virus was getting a lot of attention, we over middle agers, over 90 – have been getting instructions to “Just Stay Home!”  March, April, May, June, July, August…”Just Stay Home!”  Then when things got a little better the governors of the various states started easing things. Some restaurants opened up, in some states some bars.  The instructions for older folks like Jean and me continued the same.  “Just Stay Home!”  Then they would add “especially if you have a pre-existing condition.  I figure that at 91 most folks like me have a whole body that is a pre- existing condition. 🤔

So anyway, I plan to get a good night’s rest and wake up early and tomorrow will be a fantastic day even if we are “Stayin’ at Home!” 

We are so blessed. I should be so happy that I’d be out dancing in the streets but I guess that would be a violation of the Stay Home Rule too. 

A few of our readers may know that in the years 1997 to 2001 I got a bug to write songs. Some were tender love songs like “If I Loved You Any More You’d Be My Dog.”  Or, “Have a Good Life Because I’m Movin’ On.”  At other times I wrote children’s songs to go with some of my children’s books.  “I’m Somebody, and You’re Somebody Too!”  “Just Say Yes to Believing You’re Special…”  A patriotic song, “All America Is So beautiful.”  

Greg Brayton, a kind of musical genius with a state of the art recording studio put some real joy in my life recording my songs. (Greg, now deceased, lost his sight at 2 years old.)  He had a Rock and Roll band in high school and when he graduated the band went right out on the road and for nine years they toured America with their music. Then when he came home he opened his recording studio and he’d recorded over 500 different bands or singers or such before I met him. He later led the Praise  Band at the Coldwater Methodist Church and most of the music that he wrote and recorded himself in his final years was in the spiritual category.

Over a period of five years I wrote five spiritual songs that Greg recorded.  That is just 5 out of the 70 plus songs we recorded.  

I feel that during these Coronavirus Times  some people are drawn to a closer personal relationship with God.  I know that these songs have come to mean much more in my life than in some 20 plus years ago when I wrote them.  Now if talk about religion makes you want to go outside and kick the dirt I understand. Just move on to the quotes and let’s stay friends.  But, if you are still reading you might be able to pull up my attached song titled “Thank You Jesus”.  I hope you enjoy it.  Greg sure sings with a passion. And yes, you may pass it on to your friends if you like.