Growing Old to Be a Benign Grandfather in the Light of the Abba Krishna and the Joys of Sophie Leveriza Lina

Bare necessities are barely met by my financial strait jacket. Hard assets that were inherited seem stuck in a quagmire and nobody seems to want to buy them. The writing in the web pays a pittance while the financial crisis all but dried up the sales commissions coming from affiliate programs. The cash flow doesn’t. I’m sometimes embarrassed to the wife that I can’t take her shopping or an occasional out of town trip.

There are two things that keep our spirits up. First is the absorbing immersion in the Internet. Being stranded in the abode for lack of logistics to explore the world is not so bad as long as you have a window into cyberspace courtesy of a laptop with a broadband hook up. The learning is fantastic. It seems you can enjoy all the information at the click of a mouse. Not to mention the social networking which make eight waking hours very short for marathon chatting.

To top it all we have a bundle of joy in our midst who seems wired to induce the continuous plastering of smiles on our countenance. My first and only granddaughter Sophia Gabrielle Leveriza Lina is three years old and came to us swaddled in ominous vestments until such parted to reveal the Abba Krishna’s greatest gift to our lives. Since she visited our lackluster world we have known none other but sheer happiness. Thanks to the Almighty Abba Krishna.

Sophie, we call her, is bustling with promise and talent. She can actually keep up with the lyrics of the songs and follow the dance steps in High School Musical. She can sing the themes of the Last Unicorn and the Lion king which she has taken to heart. And she is such a comedienne making us all laugh with her funny antics. I’ve not known a moment of dreariness or boredom since she colored my senior citizen and aging baby boomer phase.

My wife and I retire at night after praying and we go to sleep feeling so positive and upbeat about the pace and circumstances of our semi-retirement. We really don’t have anything grandiose to look forward to for the next day’s agenda except the usual run of the mill repetitive chores. Nevertheless, we feel excited to get up at the break of morning and log in into the computer and anticipate Sophie’s getting up to join us for breakfast.

Anything can happen from there.

We cling to the guidance of the Abba Krishna to keep us safe and show us the way.

We consecrate Sophie’s talents to Him as way of thanksgiving for the blessings He has seen fit to shower on our lives in the simplest terms.

We simply love at the lowest ebb. We shall simply love at the highest crest.

Such is the Way of the Father.