I'm Your Boogie Man

KC and The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man was the #1 song the day that Bo was born. In 1977 the first Apple Computer goes on sale. Quebec adopts French as the official language. Jimmy Carter is elected as the President of United States and the first oil flows through the Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline. The precursor to the GPS system in use today is started by US Department of defense. Elvis Presley Dies from a heart attack aged 42 and President Carter grants pardon to American Draft dodgers of the Vietnam War Period

Wow, alot has happened in the world since 1977 and not just to the Bibb family. This is just the tip of the iceberg - there is so much history out there that it is stunning to the mind.

The only history that I really seem to be able lock my brain around and that wraps itself around my heart is the Bibb family history. I can read all those interesting facts and figures and go "Wow I didn't know that ! " and then, I go right back to my family history and the past 14 months and that's where my heart, brain and life stays. I seem to be like a record stuck in the groove and the needle keeps playing the same melody over and over. I am just waiting for someone to come along and move the needle just a bit so that the music changes, the song goes on or the record stops.

I see glimpses of a normal life all around me, the sound of Ian's laughter when we swam together tonight almost saved me from being drowned in the waves of sadness of the memories of him and Papaw or him and his Uncle Bo. The people he swam and played with every chance he got. New routines have to be made, new memories have to be formed, and old wounds have to be healed, but the Boogie Man is still in the house. Don't think that was exactly what KC and the Sunshine Band had in mind when they say that song, but it fits.

GOD will continue to heal me, HE will continue to strengthen me and HE will continue to wrap HIS arms around me every night and carry me every day. How do I know this? Because HE told me so. It says in the Bible that "And if we know that HE hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of HIM" - I asked HIM for courage, wisdom and strength - and HE will provide - it's HIS promise to us.

Tonight I will thank my FATHER for the beauty of Ian's laughter, the smile on his face, the memories he has of his Papaw and Uncle Bo.

Tonight I will remember my sweet baby boy with happiness and joyI will praise GOD for helping me thru one more day, I will ask for direction, courage and wisdom to make it thru another day - I will ask for help to slay my "Boogie Man" and the pain it represents.