This And That --- Or -- Strange Things About Me

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”   --- Luke 6:38

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1.) In our kitchen for 14 years, we've had a smoke alarm in a ridiculously high place over the stairs. It would go off if a stove burner or pan smoked. Tom and I believed it was hard-wired-in so we hoped that meant we didn't have to change the battery.

Really, it hung very high. 

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, the alarm began chirping (you know that dreaded sound). The cats and I hid upstairs waiting for Tom to wake up. Finally he did, then we asked Naomi if she'd go out to the garage and get a ladder. This is a much longer story, but Naomi climbed the ladder, grabbed the alarm and handed it to us.

Wow. Not hard wired! And you know? That thing lasted on one simple double A battery for 14 years. Fourteen years! Can you believe it?

I have to call that some type of a miracle.

2.) So I lost double the weight that I told you (mathmatical error plus more loss since then), so now I've got all these oversized tops. After spending much effort on this wardrobe, I didn't want to start over so I bought these:

You know, to cinch the front side.

(That's not the set I bought, but it's the only photo I could find where she wears it similarly.)

They're my wardrobe saver and have many other uses.

3.) Always I'm at Youtube, yet never do I read titles about being kind and giving toward people. Never.

Well, imagine my shock when I spied this title:

Always be in the Giving Spirit with Your Small Business and in Your Personal Lives

Oh my goodness! Made my entire week, especially to go on and listen to her words:

"We feel you have a responsibility as a human being. No matter what amount of money I've ever had -- you give. I don't care what you give: you give when you ain't got nothing, you give when you've got something. You don't wait until you've got something. You need to always have a giving heart with a giving spirit. It's the way we're supposed to be as humans. If you don't feel like that, you need to think about your life."

Amen, like, 400 times. Oh, to be so bold in speaking truth! Wow. I want to be like her when I grow up.

4.) You won't believe this, but it's been at least 8 years since I shopped inside a supermarket. Maybe longer.It just became too much for me (yeah, what a wimp. I know.)

But never do I regret having groceries delivered by Aldi. Instacart gives us a major way to save on delivery charges, plus, I love giving money to delivery folks rather than pouring it into my gas tank. I'm supporting my neighborhood by doing this, giving a slightly different way which benefits us all.

I also buy things through Walmart, but the usual way, not through Instacart. And sometimes Tom and Naomi pick up a few groceries, but I consider those extras.  シ

Oh, and when things are delivered, I usualy try to run out and thank the person. Gratitude means much to everyone.

5.) Two nights after coming down with this virus, I lay in bed kinda delirious with fever. Kept thinking of my favorite episode of Early Edition (Home Groan), telling myself I must remember the lines of the best scenes. Must. Remember.

But then something changed and I thought, "You know? How easy for a sickness like this to whisk me away to Heaven in an instant. Snap! Gone forever."

Well, that sobered me. Was I scared? Not at all. Heaven sounded wonderfully pleasant at that moment.

But what did concern me is that I've not finished decluttering my extra stuff so Naomi won't have to. Even after 6 years of averaging getting rid of 10 things weekly, much is left to release.

And seriously that gave me extra strength to hang in there.  I want to be as near finished with decluttering as I can be when the real time to fly away comes.

6.)  Am I 100 percent over that virus after 8 weeks? I wish. I'm much closer and three of the other symptoms are healed, but still, afternoons can be tiring and early evening coughing happens at times. 

Part of the problem may be summer--it's always rough on me even sitting up next to an air-conditioner.  シ

These days? I keep this upon my mind:

What would I do without Jesus, especially at nighttime through all this when I feel His presence so strong in my Secret Bedroom?

He is incredible.

Please remember: My posts are always about more than they appear to be. 

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 "For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15