6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. 7 I would flee far away and stay in the desert;[c] 8 I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”
Do things get so bad that you feel like running away from home? I know that happens to me. Our problems just pile up and pile up and suddenly it is more than we can manage. We have so many people depending on so It’s not so easy to stop the world and get off. Our lives are surrounded by details and the sheer volume of them can bury us.
I love what the Psalmist says.” If only I (could) flee away to my place of shelter.”
The sad part is that we probably could take some down time if we would allow ourselves. We just don’t do it. We feel guilty if we do …and yet we could function better if we did.
Prayer:God of peace, show us how to take time away from the details of our lives. Take awa y the feelings o guilt and help us to spend time away from the everyday chaos and seek peace in your presence, AMEN
With the elections going on in the US we are all bombarded with all sorts of rhetoric, promises and just stuff. I am so tired of it and will be glad when the election is over.
I recently watched a documentary on cults and found this quote. “To create fear you must create an enemy.” I had never thought about that but I think it is true. We have to have someone to be against and they can so easily become the enemy. The people running for office enjoy telling us bad things about their opponents. They waste little time talking about things that matter. It seems that maligning others is the method of today.
I am old enough to remember when this was only a marginal problem. The two parties did not seem to consider each other enemies. Compromises were made to get important bills passed. Now everyone follows party lines and nothing gets done.
Will we ever get past the anger and vituperation and do what is best for the country? Also, what happened to the moderates? I am one and feel very alone. If only dogs could vote.
The last few days have been interesting. I ordered a cabinet to put in my bathroom. One of those that you have to put tohether. I have done plenty of these but someone was supposed to help me with it. After waiting over 3 weeks for that help I couldn’t stand it anymore and got it out of the box. Checked that all parts and screws etc were there and sat it in a corner.
A few days ago another week have passed and I just couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to tackle it myself. My 83 year old body was not so happy but I thought it would hbe good exercise.
I gathered all my tools and picked up the directions. Interesting.. not text and pictures just pictures. Lots of arrows that there was no ecplanation of why they were there. But I was ready. Time to get going.
Starting out I laid all the pieces out by numbers and picked the ones I needed to start with. No problem I understood what to do and began to build. After completing two halves of of the cabinet I was ready to stack one on top of the other. This was when I discovered what the arrows were about. Some pieces were facing forward and some were the back.
Taking the pieces apart (which took several hours) I now began to put them together correctly. Now that I had everything the right way around I was ready to put the two pieces together.
The top piece was too heavy for me to lift on top of the other piece I laid them both on the floor. This was going to do it. This is when I found out that since the pieces were particle board some places did not want to close tight or stay where they were supposed to. They were too loose.
Time to save the day with you know what. I put it generously over the parts and finally got it together well. Standing it up it looked great but I discovered that some glue on the bottom part had adhered to the bottom and part of it was stuck to the carpet. Carefully I got it free and hooray it worked.
The only problem now was the glue on my hands. I had never looked up how to get it off so decided to check my phone for instructions. Thats when I discovered that I couldn’t open my phone because it has a fingerprint lock on it and couldn’t recognize my print. I filed most of it off my thumb with a nail file.
The cabinet is now mostly done and when finished completely I will post a picture. After at least an hour I managed to get the glue off my finger get into my phone and find out that nail polish remover does a decent job of getting the glue off
Now I can take a deep breath and always wait for help.
worry-less-journey 