Fine, how are you?

When asked how I am doing my standard response these days is "fine, how are you?" The truth is, I'm not really sure a lot of the time. I'm mostly stressed, a little over scheduled for the holidays and a bit disconnected. Does God ever ask us to step back and take a look around us? I feel like He's asking me to do that. To just stop thinking, planning and analyzing and take a look around. I wonder what He wants me to see.

I've been encountering a strange phenomena several times per week since I had my two doses of methotrexate in October. Lights go out around me. Sometimes as I approach, sometimes as I arrive, but most recently it's usually just after I've already passed by. I might not consider this strange except it's been so very frequent. I joked with Cam after the fourth light in our house burnt out in my presence over the course of only a couple of days that I was radio-active from the drug and I was making all the lights burn out.

It didn't stop at house lights, though. It's been street lights and business sign lights. Whatever. I notice in passing too frequently that lights are going out all around me. I don't know what it means or even if it is significant in any way. God talks to me in weird ways sometimes, maybe this is something I should pay attention to. Then again, maybe I'm only being silly and reading too much into a common occurrence that I just happen to be witnessing more often than normal. At any rate, it has caught my attention...