Tylenol is my friend. 🙂
I have another friend , one in Texas – I got to talk with her tonight!
I have another friend, in heaven – I’m going to talk to Him now.
18-Apr-2005
Well here goes another night, only this time it’s not the heat that’s going to make things difficult, I can’t lay flat on my back.
Today my education has been on learning my limits. I may have suspected a cracked rib before, but now I’m pretty sure. I felt so good on Sunday I thought maybe it wasn’t so bad, so this morning I tried to go back to my normal activities, hence I can’t lay down.
I found out that I can’t do push-ups, or run, or play soccer, or even go for a walk (I tried but something didn’t feel so good) During service hour I found out that even wiping down a cabinet with your left hand uses the muscles that are attatched to your ribs on the right side of your body. I can however peel carrots.
Sometimes God puts limitations on our life; Moses was slow of speech, Hannah couldn’t have children, Sarah was old, Lazarus was dead. In each case God put the limitation on them and then used it for His glory as He showed Himself strong in their weakness. God has seen fit to majorly alter my normal lifestyle, my new limitation has forced physical weakness upon me, but now God can come forth in a mighty way.
18-Apr-2005
Two glasses of water, 20 xanga sites and 1 email later I’m back. I’m hungry now but I guess it’s still to early to venture down stairs, besides, I’ve had leftovers twice already today.
Speaking of twice, my battery is about to go for the second time tonight, that’s sad, it’s a three hour battery, plus charge time.
I really hate the feeling you get when you wake up after jut a few hours sleep. Is it really worth going to sleep? I think I’ll have to, my body is starting to crash.
My spirit is not though, another piece of info on my current struggle has come up. How do I know what to do? It’s clear in some areas, it will affect other people, there isn’t a clear directive in scripture. What do I do?
Well, here’s to 2 hours sleep. I think I see caffine in the near future.
18-Apr-2005
It’s late, but it’s finally cooling down in our room. It really reminds me of summer nights back home in Texas; you lay spread out on top of your covers, whatever part of you is unlucky enough to touch anything is sweating. Fortunately there is no humidity here so evaporation can take place that helps a bit – I keep having to get up for water though.
The laptop is probably contributing to the thermodynamics of the situation, but I have managed to catch up on all my emails, so that’s been a blessing.
I did get to sleep in until nine this morning! That probably explains the lack of sleep now, is this college life? Why do people like to stay up this late? Maybe they don’t get up at five.
It has been very quiet and given me time to think over some lessons that God has been trying to get through to me. Why do we hold on to lies? Why is it so hard to give up? Why can we go for a little while and then relapse? Why do I learn so slowly?
Forgive me, it’s late – hmm, I already said that – here’s to three hours sleep!
13-Apr-2005
Ice Cream – The continuing story.
As most of you know, I have this thing for ice cream. I try to make sure that I have some every week so I don’t go into withdrawal. The Lord has been very good to me in providing each week and has used some creative ways to get it to me, but today the delivery was very unusual.
I go on walk every day at noon with Kim and Tonya (from the kitchen) and a lot of the route is beside the road. Anyway, today we were just walking along and minding our own business when a car passed by – nothing unusual – but then we felt something wet, almost like a puddle had been splashed on us but there were no puddles around. On closer inspection we saw that the drops were pink and smelled like strawberry ice cream; someone had thrown a milkshake at us!
My first thought was indignation, we had been honked at, yelled at, and now this! But just as quickly I remembered what I had said that morning about God wanting to test our responses and I knew that mine would have to be in line with what Jesus would have done, so I laughed, and said out loud “thank you Lord for this trial, and bless that driver.” Tonya, the other victim, quickly picked up on this attitude and responded in kind, and then we started laughing. It really was funny if you chose to see it that way, I mean here we were with pink spots all down our backs and smelling rather sweet and like strawberries, and yelling blessings of future thoughtfulness and discretion all while hysterically laughing.
Tonya told me that they are studying the Command of Christ “Love you enemies” this week, but she didn’t think she would have the opportunity to put it in to practice. I felt lighthearted and happy the rest of the day; amazing how a blessing can counteract and even lift the emotions. Then, to top it all off, a benevolent student here at the RCI gave me some ice cream tonight, not having any clue of what had taken place today. God sure has a loving sense of humor.
