Annual events

today I visited the dermatologist ... something I have done for the last several Septembers.  It is not necessarily something I look forward to, but it is necessarily something I need to do.  There are other things that we do only once a year - some of them under duress and others reluctantly, rather having the opportunity to do them more frequently.  Paying taxes or home insurance once a year is enough, but I could do Christmas or Thanksgiving more often.  On the other hand, Easter is only once a year, but it seems that when it has past I spend the remainder of the year planning toward, living toward, and looking forward to the next one.  But then in many ways ... Easter comes every day.  We simply don't always acknowledge it.  Looking back it has been almost a year to the day since I made a contribution to this spot.  So, I'm back again - anticipating that it will not be a  year before I return.  My writings stimulate my own thinking call me to be introspective and if someone else gains some insight or hope into this life in the process, then perhaps that is good.

My thoughts lately have been drawn back to Isaiah 35 again and again ... perhaps I'll go there again someday.

Perhaps tomorrow.

I can't wait 'til next year...