Song Jive

So sometimes I feel just like a song. You know how a songwriter just captured perfectly (mostly perfectly) how you're feeling? I remember one time I broke up with a girlfriend in highschool and I told the girl that our entire relationship was documented in the Cure cd Disintegration.

Anyway, I've been feeling like this kick-ass song by CSNY recently:

Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day.
It's getting’ kinda long, I coulda said it wasn't in my way.
But I didn't and I wonder why, I feel like letting my freak flag fly,
cause I feel like I owe it to someone.

Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas and I'm not feeling up to par.
It increases my paranoia, like looking at my mirror and seeing a police car.
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear cause I missed myself this year.
I feel like I owe it to someone.

When I finally get myself together, I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather.
And I find a place inside to laugh, separate the wheat from the chaff.
I feel like I owe it to someone.

Yeah.

Gretyl Pruss

Gretyl Pruss is a young woman Krisin and I worked with in Oak Harbor. Gretyl is one of the coolest people we have had the priveledge to know, it was so fun working with her; she went with us on a mission trip to LA, she came to Mexico with the high school group while we were there...really cool cat. She just graduated highschool two years ago and moved to Oregon to play soccer for Western Baptist. Unfortuately she was hurt real bad about a year and a half ago in one of her games and has been in and out of surgery trying to fix her knee. It's been tough because every time I talke with her there's some kind of screw up the doctors or her coaches did that just pushes her healing back a step.

In fact after she hurt her leg in the game, her coach told her to just rest in her room, thinking there wasn't a problem. Then the doctors in Oregon jacked up the first surgery on her knee, putting lots of scar tissue on the bones, messing up the veins and arteries. It's just been a long road for her this past year.

I just got off the phone with her, having learned that she had her leg amputated above the knee. My heart breaks thinking about how awful this must be. I remember Kristin and I used to go to her high school soccer games, cheering as she dominated the field, and now this final blow to an already horendous year. The amazing thing is how calm, peaceful, forgiving and loving she is. While her mother (among others I'm sure) fight with bitterness and anger (righteously so..) she is content to know that life will be ok...God will be good...she can trust Him. I'm amazed.

Our dear friend. Our young student. Now she is teaching me and others already important lessons for this jorney through life.