PrayingWithMyFingers

January 17 – January 25, 2010
Dear God,
It seems as if recent events are converging to force me to deal with issues that I thought were dead and buried.  The Haiti earthquake has reminded me that I never processed my trip to Haiti in 2001.  Ed’s diagnosis of lung cancer put that on the back burner where it has not resurfaced until now.  Ed’s death was the next big event which needed processing but, I put that on the back burner by dabbling with a very bad relationship (less than six …

Dear God,
It’s a rainy Saturday morning and, I finally have a few minutes to spare.  Please forgive my neglect.  As You know, I haven’t written since Monday but nonetheless, You are always in my mind.  I know You want me to keep You in the front of my mind, and I do try but…….imperfect human being that I am means things don’t always go according to plan.  And, I do trust that You will work it all out in Your mysterious way.
Besides the usual busyness of work, puppy Chanel fell …

Dear God,
The Sunday packing for Tallahassee proved to be more of a challenge than I anticipated.  I have been so busy trying to get back to my independent, controlling self that I failed to take help that was offered at different points by different friends and now I see it could have all worked better if only I had been willing to allow myself to receive more help from others.
About three hours into my five hour drive, I realized I had left all my shirts and blouses on my bed. …

Dear God,
Again today I discover how much energy I am lacking.  I am prohibited from “heavy lifting,” and all I have been doing is laundry and trying to tidy up the house before leaving for Tallahassee.  Apparently, this is still a little bit too much because by late afternoon I felt as if a tiny limb of sorts was pushing in my abdomen….similar to the baby foot or hand during pregnancy.  I still have to do the travel packing and get all that in the car.  These simply things feel …

Dear God,
I am experiencing some kind of post-surgery sluggishness.  Although I was up by 8am, it took me the full two hours to get dressed and out the door to the 10am meeting with Workforce Development.  After the meeting, I went to Walgreens to find cough medicine as my chest cold is hanging on for dear life.  The between meetings hour and half was topped off with McDonalds lunch in Sarasota county parking lot.  Then 4+ hours of listening to the annual parade of government officials and other seekers of …

Dear God,
Finally a morning where I slept until I woke up fully rested.  Then it was time to get the puppies up and out and say goodbye to Vikki.  Afterward I was on the computer til almost lunchtime.  Lunch was leftover pizza from Olive Garden of yesterday’s lunch.  Then!   Naptime!  Me and the puppies sacked out all afternoon.   I don’t know why I was so fatigued today.  Perhaps too active yesterday.  
Tomorrow is another full work day and hopefully, I am back full-time as of tomorrow.  Local delegation …