LIfe is full of extremes

Life is good and hard, complicated and simple, filled with joy and pain and that's just how it should be.  It's called the human experience and it's what we signed up for.

My saint of a mother in law Wanee, had a marvelous and messy June.  Full of contradictions.

Wanee got to go to Finland with granddaughter Kimberly to surprise her daughter Jane for Jane's 60th birthday.  Jane and Steve are on a mission there and they took Wanee all over to see that beautiful country and meet some wonderful people.  She was in heaven.

Wanee flew home from that right into the setting apart of Terry and Cyrrena for their mission to the Philippines. She was so tired from traveling and jet lagged.  But, she got to go into the church office building and meet with Elder Holland and get hugged and blessed and be on a spiritual high.

After, Wanee got to her home and found out there is a big pipe/ plumbing leak from the upstairs bathroom to the downstairs bath that is such a mess.  She was distraught and called for help.

The next day was Holly's joyous production of "Peter Pan" that the special needs kids put on with Friend to Friend.  Wanee loves watching Holly and hanging out with the other Special needs kids moms.

When she got home from the show, she was greeted by 8 policemen and a warrant that allowed them to go in and search her home. What?!?  Dale had applied for a handgun in Wanee's absence and he was denied a gun because of his past history, but evidently, just in the background check on him for it there was a red flag and the police were called in.   Wanee was so shaken up and sad about his.

All of these ups and downs in the space of a few days.  Life is full of extremes some times.

I was telling Wayne that his mom is such a perfect example of the 50/50 principle.  It's easy to see it at work in her world.

When we just ride the tide of emotion and experience it stays 50/50.  We can disagree with it, complain about it or want it different but then we will only be adding more negative emotion to it...so then it moves from 50/50 to only 40% positive and 60% negative...so why complain?  It actually cuts into our positive side.  We need to stop adding negative to our negative.

Life is awesome and difficult, blessed and bruised, wonderful and worldly....just as it should be. I'm grateful for all of it.