I’m At Home, I’m Blogging - the Lord is Good
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:27 am by Dee O'Neil Andrews
Lo after these many days a bright light was seen in the east - or west - or south, all depending on what direction you live from me, as Dee Ann once again sat at her big old government surplus desk at her computer, which was set just the way she wanted it, and started to blog. All of the trauma and toils of the weeks behind (and all of the conspicuous typos in the last blog post) were but a distant blur in her memories.
Order and peace were restored to her somewhat ersatz fragile world, but then it doesn't take much for addicted bloggers such as she.
Okay, guys - we've now got internet access at home and email back after the long drought. And what a blessing this is here this morning to sit here with my first cup of coffee (a second and last one will soon follow) and write to you.
I got the chance to read all of your lovely and wonderful comments yesterday evening and was greatly uplifted and cheered. Things have gone much better the past couple of days, which translates into things have slowed down considerably and the pace is a much better one for me and for Tom both.
We are still having some rather serious plumbing problems in our master bathroom, which is very worrisome, but Tom is going to call our builder this morning about it to get the plumber back out here.
We also don't have quite all of the trim painting done around the house and the painters were supposed to be here at 7 a.m. this morning, but now at 8 o'clock, still aren't here. Of course, it is very cloudy out and they need to paint the six pillars across our front porch, so maybe that's why they haven't shown up. Who knows with any of the workers who work on houses. Or builders, either. But I won't get started on that this morning. We're in the house and it is very nice and very well built.
Well - except for maybe the plumbing, but that remains to be seen.
In the meantime, Tom and I rested Sunday and enjoyed the day doing basically - nothing. He did "take me to town" to blog. That sounds so gentrified or something. Just country, maybe. To say he "took me to town." Like when I was growing up on the cotton farm in Abernathy, Texas just north of Lubbock (for those of you not familiar with the vast Lone Star State - the magnificent state of Texas).
Then we went to Picayune's Super Wal-Mart on a hot Sunday afternoon, which is always an experience not to be missed, let me tell you. While there, my blood sugar dropped really low so that I felt really bad and had to start stuffing candy down. We had to leave the store and come home where I crashed on the sofa for a couple of hours.
I had not been sleeping well at all - again - and was really tired out so the rest was just what I needed. Tom rested and just piddled around while I was sleeping and after I got up we went out on our back porch and sat together for the longest time just sitting and thinking and talking a little. Mostly just relaxing and enjoying the time together we had envisioned for so long.
Last night on the National Geographic channel, they did a show on John's writing of Revelation and about a lot of the revelation theories over the years that have sprung forth from people's fertile minds in trying to interpret the many signs and wonders found in John's vision and Tom and I were reminded once again that when ever the "end times" are due to come - and many people think we are definitely in the end times these days, don't they - all each of us has is today.
Our time is limited to the moment. To the immediate present. So in my view, we must live each moment as if it were our last, because it very well could be.
That is certainly a much better way to live than any other I know of. I mean, while we plan ahead and dream and long for things in this life, this life is indeed very fragile, spinning on the tip of a fine needle as God watches over His vast universe.
Thus it behooves us (don't you love that word - "behoove?") to take heed and thought in how we live so that God and Jesus Christ will not find us wanting when that day of Resurrection comes indeed.
Those are my thoughts this cloudy morning here in Picayune, Mississippi. I guess I really must now say "out from" Picayune, Mississippi since we are now about five miles or more out in the country in a small subdivision that is one winding road long.
Cheers & Blessings each of you today! Dee
Good morning, Dee! Glad things are calming down a bit for you. We are a long ways from being settled in our new digs, but at least it is livable. We’ve got cable and internet, but no phone. Today makes day 4 without phone service…. I don’t know why Comcast can’t figure out what’s up and get it fixed. We’ll be getting a nice credit for our days of no service. Stop by my place to see pictures of the new baby. She arrived just one day after the movers dumped all our belongings here in the house, and she is a living doll!
Yay for Dee….glad you’re back in the saddle, friend! Stay inside! It’s too hot to go outside here on the Coast. sticky!
Welcome back and welcome home, Dee! We’ve been concerned about you. As for the end of the world…I’m really not that interested. I’m only interested in the end of ME! What happens to the world isn’t important in comparison.
My wife, whose design practice requires her to work with builders, painters, and plumbers, sends her deepest sympathies. For the rest of you, if you want to be a gazillionaire, here is how to do it: show up when you said you would and do what you promised to do. That’s all. That will make you one in a million in the service trades.
We should live like today is our last day and I’ll even throw in a smile and a laugh as we live out our “last days.” Your post reminded me of a story Dave Stone (minister of Southeast Christian in Louisville, KY) told at the Pepperdine Bible Lectures a couple of years ago.
Stone was teaching at a Christian Church College at the time someone came out and gave the day the world would be destroyed. Stone decided to have some fun so he went to the music department and procured a couple of trumpet players. He placed them in a strategic spot under the Bible Building. He then went to the Drama Department and procured a harness used to lift people off the ground and simulate flight. He had a couple of custodians set it up on top of the roof of the Bible Building. He then told the Professor of one of the Bible Classes what he was going to do and to have everyone (ministers in training) looking out the window of the classroom at the precise time.
At the time the world was predicted to be destroyed, Stone had the 2 custodians begin to pull him up to the roof as the 2 trumpet players began to play. When he was even with the window of the classroom he stopped and shouted, “I’m going to meet Jesus.†Then he looked inside the window and yelled to all of these Bible majors, “Why aren’t you going with me?†The custodians pulled him up on the roof.
Little side note – When Stone arrived on the roof one of the 2 (who were now completely exhausted) custodians said to Stone, “You would have been in real trouble if the rapture had really taken place and both of us would have went to meet Jesus.†Stone’s reply was, “That’s why I chose you two.â€
Behooves! Yes, that’s a great word! I’ll have to borrow it and use it sometime. Glad you’re back in the blogging saddle, Dee.
– Bobby
I often look for opportunities to use “behooves”! Just returned from a funeral of a lady in her 50’s. Doing another one Friday of a lady in her 50’s who just dropped dead in her car. Today is, indeed, all we “behaves” so we live it in a way that honors the Lord … and, hopefully, achieves something we needed to do.
Hi Dee,
Sorry that I’ve been so out of touch — we’ve been traveling a good bit and trying to squeeze in so many other thing, blog reading has taken a back seat. On a much smaller scale, we’ve experienced many of the same frustrations you have on our remodeling jobs. Our kitchen counter did come, but they did not make it according to the drawings, so we are having to wait on another. I didn’t think it would be this long, so we are still without a kitchen sink or a dishwasher. We’ve been eating lots of sandwhiches and off paper plates and dong what dishes we have to in the bathroom sink. The bathtub might be easier, but it is also out as we had to tear out the surround to do update our plumbing. Since I am without do-it-yourself skills, we are depending on help from the good people of the church who have their own lives to live (and their own renovations going on), so it’s frustrating and the longing for some sense of normalcy can be depressing. Your car mishap reminds me of the minor accident we had driving back from AL. I just completed my online Defensive Driving course this morning to try to clear my driving record and restore my insurance discount. Will try to stay in better touch. Blessings to you and Tom.
Welcome home!
I wanted to take a moment to say I hope you are having a great Fourth of July with family and friends!
May God’s richest blessings be yours,
-bill
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