Block 64

Telephone

a blessing

I don't always like.

I absolutely 

HATE

talking on the phone.

I

DESPISE

picking up the phone

and hearing the voice

of someone I 

don't know.

Now that I've said that

the phone has become a friend.

It lets me hear

the  voices of

Lee and his family,

Aunt Ruth,

Marilyn

and Debbie 

on the holidays.

On Christmas afternoon

Dad would always call

Aunt Ruth.

To this day

I still call her.

It's a great connection

to my childhood

PLUS

I get to get caught up

on what's going on in

my cousin's lives.

And Joyce . . . 

when I REALLY miss home

I call her.

I know I will hear

her smile and laughter

over the phone.

Makes me feel like

she is right here.

So,

since 2006,

the telephone

has become a blessing.

Dear Lord,

Thank you for giving Alexander Graham Bell the knowledge to invent the telephone. I know that there had to be many other men who were working on the same thing, and there are THOUSANDS who have brought it to where it is today. But, without Alex, I wonder when the phone would have appeared.  It makes family reunions so immediate. And now that I live 8 hours from home, I have come to appreciate it.

Amen.