Here she comes to save my day

Good morning from Rio. At our kid's school they have been having a "hero" theme throughout the year. It is a way of giving recognition for students who go out of their way to help others or show positive character traits that another student feels is commendatory. One example of this is when our son Naaman was nominated for "hero of the week" because he broke up a fight between two younger classmates.

Well, this week I've been working on a talk that I'm supposed to give this weekend. I probably should be doing this right now, but am being distracted writing this instead.

A part of my talk is supposed to cover my personal testimony in Christ, my history of chemical dependency, my current recovery and how I utilize the Celebrate Recovery ministry in my daily living. As I'm trying to create this talk (actually more the power point that goes along with it) I began to have a creative block because I really wanted to show a couple of pictures from my growing up years in Wichita, Kansas. I knew that I had some personal photos of that time somewhere around the house, but could not find them.

I expressed my disappointment of my failed search to my wife. She could see that I was stuck and tried to help me find these "great moments in Jeff history". After looking in all of the common places, finally I hear a "Jeff, come up here" call from Sharon. Sure enough, she found my lost photos (they were not in the normal places). I was over joyed!

Do you remember the cartoon "Mighty Mouse"? When the mouse was saving the world from impending peril the music would play, "Here I come to save the day" and Mighty Mouse would show up and all of us could breathe a sigh of relief. Well Sharon, honey, you're my Might Mouse! You're my hero. You saved my day!

Now I guess that I'd better stop procrastinating and get back on the creation of my talk and its accompanying power point.

Here I come to save the day . . .