Reflections 1/14/21: Talk about a time machine! A PeeChee notebook! That orange-yellow color and those sketched-out athletes are indelibly etched in the fiber of my being. Adolescence! This INSTANTLY catapulted me back to my desk in Algebra 1 at my junior high school! Golden Valley! Dang! All those pubescent hormones are sweeping over my baffled body as I picture myself doodling on its surface, writing my ever-unrequited crushes’ names in code on the front. And experimenting with my artistic flair to disguise my beloved horse drawings so no one (in Southern California) would know how uncool I was to be a corny cowgirl! Zits erupt. Trainer bras scrape my burgeoning chest. New monthly cycles force me into an adulthood I don’t want. Friendships explode under the strain of gossip. Insecurity reigns. Anything but PeeChee (“peachy!”) And God, You are just a back-burner presence in my life. Ahhhhhh!!! If I could survive those years, I can surely navigate this cancer ordeal! And NOW You are front-burner Jesus, with all the benefits that provides. And 50+ years of faithful companionship through the following decades of equally challenging life issues, assure me that together we can face ANYTHING! So PeeChee notebook, thank you for that unexpected time transport! It was fun seeing the me I used to be… especially in the light of who God has transformed me to be now!