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What do you do when you’ve been waiting for something that’s bothering you/causing you grief to go away but before it’s gone something else negative is added to the mix? Seriously—how do you get through it? Me? I turn to stories and find my comfort in a variety of “Once upon a time…” tales. Even those stories that are true I think of as “Once upon a time…”, because there’s a romance to be found in life, not just in surviving but in surmounting the odds and arising victorious.
In the context of last week, my “Once upon a time…” began with a Wednesday morning present: fully a foot deep of fluffy white stuff! Forty-five minutes after sunrise the sky went from blue to slightly cloudy to rain to snow. I didn’t want to go out in it but had some inventory to return to a manufacturer so my business wouldn’t stall. Added to that my husband had been expressing concern about my remaining inside all day, every day. He thought this comfort zone of mine was becoming unhealthy, constricting, and might lead to agoraphobia. So I donned my warmest clothes and, because I’ve not yet learned how to drive in the stuff or handle the inevitable skidding on the ice underneath, walked to the local shipping facility. By the time I was ready to go it was already eight inches deep. Undeterred, I was excited and determined to enjoy my adventure, even having fun wading through the additional four inches that had fallen since I left the house an hour before. I believed myself relatively unscathed until my knee complained about the wrenching it received when I crossed a street too quickly due to an oncoming car. Drat! Now what?
I spent all of Thursday off my knee and fretted because I was unable to do dishes, much less anything else. Friday dawned, blue-skied and beautiful, yet even though my knee barely twinged I could neither do dishes nor much else because arthritis was attacking my left hand (I cannot take pain medication because it exacerbates other physical challenges). Drat! Now what?
This, too, shall pass…. In fact it always does, sooner or later. So, no matter what happens, no matter how painful and/or frustrating our days may be, please believe and always remember that the Author of our lives has already inked “happily ever after” on the story of our lives!
Here’s to the possibilities! May each of your days also be wonderful!
All of Heaven’s best to you and yours,
Margret Boyd
Scribe of Heaven
(Matthew 13:51,52)
