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I’ve had Disney World on my mind lately. Every trip has been a mixture of delight and disaster. My first trip at age five, I got a stomach bug and had to stay in bed most of the trip. The next time, my little brother pulled a pot of hot coffee over on himself and ended up in the E.R. followed by an expedited trip home. He recovered with no scarring! On the first day of our first trip with our boys, my husband threw up on the Expedition Everest roller coaster, fortunately into his sweatshirt. During my last trip, a wonderful reunion with friends from Sweden, my mother died in the nursing home back in Birmingham. It was not wholly unexpected but a shock nonetheless! Not sure I want to go back to Disney. I’m a little nervous about what might happen next! I have experienced many events into which much planning, effort and expense were poured only to have something give way, someone fall over, or something go spectacularly awry! I always warn happy couples when planning their wedding, “Something will go wrong and it will be OK. Perfect weddings are boring. Whatever goes amiss, that is your wedding story!” And so it is with all our plans, all our events, all our lives. When things go wrong, remember, there’s your story. May our lives be worth living and our stories worth telling! In wisdom and grace, Rev. Ruth |