March 3, 2009
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Another Day – Same Song & Dance
Is it really Tuesday? It feels like a Monday!
I’m starting all over this morning. New day. New resolve. And, probably, same song and dance. Isn’t that what most of our lives are about – the same song and dance each and every day?
But . . .
How do I have a new resolve? Why am I re-energized? Why do I have *hope* today? Why aren’t the plagues of Monday chasing me into Tuesday morning?
I read my friend, Judy’s, blog this morning and realized exactly why the refreshment is in my body and spirit. I KNOW where it comes from. Hop over to her site and read PS 121 and her comments. I read her blog this morning and immediately knew, “That’s it!” That’s why I’m okay with everything that’s trying to do its “turmoil thing” around me.
“The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil . . .”
Evil? What evil?
* A bad looking mammogram?
* Three painful biopsies on March 18th?
* Irritation over medical staff that pretty much told me to never bring my children back with me?
* Children who, yesterday, didn’t act the way we trained them? Not “horrible,” but not how we trained them.
* Our taxes STILL not finished or filed and us needing money?
* Sushi tearing up the house (with toys she rips apart) and leaving debris on freshly vacuumed carpets?
* The foster children, we were expecting this week, being placed somewhere else?
* The painter still here and the house looking topsy turvy?
* No matter how hard I try, we are slightly behind in homeschool?
* A severe head and back ache last night that is slightly hanging around this morning?Evil? WHAT evil????
* How about . . . Satan trying to make me lose my peace?
* How about . . . Satan trying to get me to look at my list of grievances that deviate from my list of perfection?
* How about . . . this irritating cough that is better, but not gone?
* How about . . . aches in my upper back from holding my arms over my head for over an hour yesterday?
* How about . . . the thought of holding my arms over my head for 3+ hours when my biopsies are done?
* How about . . . a headache that is just barely there, but reminds me it really IS there?Yep! That’s the evil. For sure. Satan working my mind over and trying to take control. Satan’s resolve to get me to relinquish to him. But (to quote Dana Carvey’s impression of President Bush), “Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent!”
Here’s our newest news – I called the foster worker yesterday to see if they had asked the 3 girls if they wanted to be together and be moved to our house. The little ones like where they have been placed and the oldest has now been placed in a different home. Everyone is happy. That’s the point – the CHILDREN should be happy. So we wait for God’s plan on what foster children and when they will arrive here in our home. HIS children. HIS timing.
Chirper running from Sushi, or rather tempting Sushi to chase him.
And, Sushi, the innocent, being trained to NOT eat the girls’ hair ribbons.
No matter how tempting – she’s not allowed to touch the ribbon.
Jesse supported me with the children’s behavior problem yesterday at the clinic AND for the past week or so. We have a new way of dealing with disobedience and I have his support. They need even MORE structure. I would love for them to be free to do what they want, but I suspect they have too much free, unstructured time. So, they are being given specific chores – even if I have to scratch my brain to look for new ideas.Rissy dusting. Rissy looking at our family photo AND dusting.
She’s now cleaning our bathrooms.Luci’s sorted laundry – sorted BY Luci but washed by me (I’m faster and other people’s laundry awaits me).
Luci and Annamarie cleaning their room and closet.
This all looks more under control than it really is . . . but I don’t demand perfection – not completely! I have to keep directing Luci and Annamarie back to their chores. The only one with self-motivation is Rissy.Getting back to Satan’s strategy and how we deal with hardships. I think about those who get sucked down into a vacuum of depression. Those who worry and fret until they make themselves ill over things only God can control. I think about those who have no hope. No hope? What an awful place to be lost!!! I claim PS 121 for me specifically. Today. This minute. Those words spoken so long ago are alive today. Right now.
Today’s To Do List:
* Laundry – Luci’s gigantic stack(!!!) and then the next child’s
* Teach
* Work on taxes again
* Pork roast for dinner (got home too late to bake it yesterday)
* Finish eating the rest of Rissy’s b-day cake . . . BEFORE NOON!!!!!
I’ll let the girls eat whatever I can’t finish!!! LOL
Be Blessed ~
Comments (8)
Lol! I just left you a comment on yesterday’s post….
I’m having a hard time motivating myself today…. Cam & I really need to bake SOMEthing. Meh….
Hey Girl! Wow! You’ve been busy since I’ve been away!! Mammograms, ultrasounds, birthday parties.. goodness! Well, I just want you to know you have my prayers. I’m excited that you aren’t afraid and that God has given you peace. My dear friend had this happen and they did that whole biopsy of three spots thing, put a marker in one of them, etc. The good news is.. and really.. it’s good news.. though she didn’t end up having breast cancer, she had a horrible reaction to the marker!! She ended up getting a free breast job out of it! LOL! Yup, they had to go in, remove tissue and reconstruct. She loves it! LOL! So, be ready!
The party looks amazing. You really should be a party planner. You have such a gift!
@flipperiferous -
“You really should be a party planner.”
I am! I just don’t let people know about it. No time for others! Same with cake decorating – I don’t even make my own family’s b-day cakes any more! I do several things under cover (cut hair, interior decorating, floral arrangements, cook for the masses . . . ), I don’t tell so I don’t have to say, “No, I’m sorry, I can’t help you.”
I’m too busy with my own family right now!
I have to go to the dentist (another of your big faves!) on the 18th, early early. I’ll be up praying for you then, and will pray between now and then. Why did you think the lump was fibrous? How bad was the mammo, really? I’ve been needing to get one and just flat haven’t.
Goodness! I don’t know where I have been! I seem to have missed a lot. I do pray your biopsies will go well and that there won’t be much pain. It’s good that you are having this checked. I am glad you have God’s peace “riding shotgun!” I will make sure I get back here and hear how things are going. I leave for the U.S. in 14 days, and I have so much to do! We also had a 24 hour prayer weekend at the church, so that took….uh…. 24 hours(!) plus recovery time for missed sleep! Hugs!
@Immax3 -
I have no idea WHY people say a mammogram is horrible. Maybe I let other people’s stories give me a high expectation of pain (like childbirth) and (like childbirth) it was no where near as bad as I expected. Unless you are at “that time of month” and are swollen & sore, there should be no pain. In my opinion, I think a tightened blood pressure cuff is far more uncomfortable.
I’ve had the biggest lump (like a rope or cord) since last summer and it comes and goes in it’s size. That’s most likely fibrous AND my mom’s side of the family has a history of fibrous problems – that’s why I’m not hyped about all the hoopla.
I’m sick (strep throat 2 weeks ago and a chest cold, now) and I imagine my lymph glands ARE swollen – the other place that looked suspicious. Then, there was mention of something being attached to my chest wall – not good, but I think the fibrous cord just disappears into my body – I mean, it has to stop somewhere!
I’m sorry you’ve had a rough time of it this week. I hope your biopsies are no big deal and more importantly that the results are of no consequence. May the Lord settle your heart and wrap you in His peace.
Hope is an amazing thing. No matter what “evil’s” are going on–our hope promises to perserve us from all that!
Did the girls get any cake?