Ez.

I'm now reading Ezekiel in my read the bible in the year. I'm discovering how challenging it is. Reading extremely old text about the people of Israel disobeying God continually and women "whoring" around is not quite what I had imagined when I started this thing. I guess it's all apart of the bible and it totally can still relate today with purity and honor to God. There was one passage which I really liked.

"If a man is righteous and does what is just and right-- if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift his eyes to the idols of house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity, does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man, walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully--he is righteous; he surely shall live, declares the Lord God." Ez. 18:5-9

Of course today the staying away from menstrual women seems a little outlandish, I have to remember that in the culture of this time women were seen as impure during that part of their cycle. God is telling us that true living is being pure, not taking advantage of others, blessing the poor and needy, being accountable to others and being completely honest.  I think I can live with that.

Anyway, today I shadowed a PA for a little bit more, I didn't get to see too much, but I did get to ask lots of questions, trying not to be so quiet. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm very comfortable being quiet, especially in new and unknown situations. It is something that I have always dealt with and I'm always trying to open up and vocalize my observations more, because I'm very much an observer.
I then got to meet up with an old friend who I hadn't seen in so long, I was happy to spend time chit-chatting with her and catching up on each other's lives.
My mom also had one of her knee's totally replaced today. Surgery went well. I got to talk to her a little bit, she let me know that they finally increased her pain meds and she wasn't hurting so bad. Right now she is in a contraption in her bed that moves her new knee constantly and that is why she is in a lot of pain, not to mention that they sawed off part of her bone... Apparently, the surgeon told my dad that it was probably the worst knee that he ever had to replace. I hope in a couple of weeks she'll be feeling like a young buck again so we can do fun things together ; )

There's lots of way to replace a knee, and lots of different metal parts a surgeon can use, but I suspect this is what my mom's knee might look like right now.  Let's hope she can make it through the Physical Therapy. She's a tough lady, so I'm sure she can!