This week has been so busy with the upcoming trip that my male boss is taking next week that by the end of the day, I'm exhausted just from struggling to get the answers I need to complete the tasks I have to do. Does that make sense? It has truly been a stressful week; Monday and Tuesday moreso than yesterday, and I'm hoping today will be even less. I actually could sit back and 'breathe' yesterday afternoon. Today I will pull it all together on his itinerary and plan to get it sent over to him at least by Monday morning. I refuse to work the weekend on it. I do need to create a check list and make sure I have everything in place. Finding a conference room this late in the 'game', I was starting to stress out. But I do have one contact in Colorado that has been extremely helpful. She not only gave me the hospitals that have conference rooms we can use, but also diagrams of where they are. Soooo grateful for her! I keep telling this male boss he needs to hire her. But the problem with the conference rooms stem from the finding out next week is 'hospital week' and some of the larger, nicer conference rooms are already reserved so that the hospitals can have employee gatherings. Since the world is starting to celebrate Everyone and Everything.... maybe we just need to party every day, you think? This week has been 'Nurse's week'. The week before had 'Administrative Professional' (aka Secretary) day. Come to think about it, why do we only get one day and hospitals and nurses get a whole week? Is that fair?
My favorite boss actually sent me a GIF yesterday of someone dancing cause it was almost Friday. Yeah, I was dancing with it! So today is Friday and I am so ready for this week to be over. I have things in my mind I want to get completed this weekend, but will see how it all goes. I know I don't have specific plans laid out, but want to get some things accomplished. I bought some new bucket planters.... perhaps I will start with those. I ordered from Woot - and was surprised to find three of them delivered yesterday is small, short boxes. I didn't even want to deal with it last night so haven't opened them yet, but I'm guessing I may have to put them together. Seriously? But I guess for $21 they want me to do the work. I'll open one this morning when I get a chance and see what it is. I think I'll get more rock for this one area in the courtyard and set these on top of it. The ground is so hard and hubby is a pain to get to water on a regular basis. He tends to get upset when I just sneak out and do it myself. I'd rather do it myself, for then I know they are watered correctly. That's why my plants - even the drought ones, often die. He just 'forgets' to water them, in spite of my telling him to wait no longer than a few days. A whole nother story there!
One thing I have noticed the past few days of taking these new 'drops' that I started..... I seem to be sleeping deeper and wanting to sleep longer. I wake up and force myself to get up, knowing I want to come in here for my alone time. (yes, it is THAT important to me to have this each morning) But this morning, I once again snuggled down into my chair and wanted to go back to sleep.... but heard hubby get up so knew I shouldn't. Plus I have my 'routine'. And I go to sleep right away the past couple of nights. I think I have been taking the drops now about 7=8 days. We did go to bed at 9:30PM instead of 8:30PM last night.... but still....
Matthew 18:15 (NKJV): Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
Of course the verse isn't just meaning your 'real' brother, but any person that has sinned against you. We could probably also put it as: Moreover if your friend (or relative) sins against you, go and tell them their fault between you and them alone. If they hear you, you have gained a (better) friend. I'm not going to go into family relationships - but what about 'friend relationships'? Sometimes when a friend says or does something that has angered or hurt us, we withdraw from them without explanation. They, in turn, may feel hurt at the distance you have put between you. But what if you go to them and just say, "Hey, when we were together talking, you said such and such (or did such and such), and it really bothered me. I had to step back from you because I didn't like where it was going. Can we talk about this?" If the friend is truly your friend, they will listen to you and hear what you say. In that, you have gained even a greater friend, one that will be closer than a brother. I think we all have learned that when we bring family into it, many times they don't want to reason it out but will defend themselves. Sometimes we just have to process and let it die down on its own.
Trust me, I know this. Reminds me of a chorus in a song - it just came to mind.... "all I can do is worship, all I can do is bow down....' . Not to that individual, of course, but to the One who can heal all things. I know I have thrown myself in to prayer (and tears at times) when I have been 'put in my place' by a family member. It isn't that I am not loved by them (well, by most of them I am loved. I think), but we all have 'those things' that irritate us and cause us to withdraw and step away. Many times the ones we are stepping away from have no clue what is going on. They don't know what they did. They don't know to change their behavior. We all need to be more verbal, I guess. I'm a guilty one there.
Growing up I learned to keep my opinions (most times) to myself. I learned the hard way not to share my thoughts about people's behaviors (yeah, I know I do it in here all the time, right? But it's my 'safe place'.) as the years have gone by. And now that my children are 'grown up with families of their own' - they definitely do NOT want my opinion. After all, I am the first to admit I made a mess of things. Not going to go there; it's in the past and I can't change anything. And when it is brought to my attention of my failures, all I can say is "I'm sorry". Being a parent is sometimes a learning process, especially when you didn't have an example to learn from.
Kind of like marriage. And I think I will leave that comment alone.
Life is too short to hold grudges and hatred towards anyone. I noticed on social media that Dr. David Jeremiah is putting little videos of (I forget the titles) but something like 'It could happen now...' . And as you watch this little video.... one was of a couple watching TV eating popcorn with an infant laying on blanket beside them. Poof! The baby disappeared (and the parents in the video didn't even notice). Another one I saw last night was two videos of a restaurant where people were eating, sitting at a bar, and a waiter comes walking through carrying a large tray of food. Poof The waiter, several people at a table (but not all), and various people throughout the room disappeared. What does this all mean?
I Corinthians 15:52 (NKJV): ...in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
There will be no warning; no time to make that apology we meant to make but put off. No time to hug one more time. It will happen, and it will happen soon. The trumpet will sound, and we shall all be changed. I don't want to be left behind. Do you?
It reminds me of a message our pastor did some time ago. If the trumpet sounded, and you weren't taken, who would you call first to see if they were still here as well? I don't want to be here, for the tough times we are in now as a nation will be much, much worse. I want to be taken immediately when the trumpet sounds. Being with Jesus is better than being left in the world. Something to think about. Do you need to re-evaluation where you are with Jesus? Don't delay. It could happen today.
Blessings!
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