Reflections From a Country Girl

If you’ve read The Bible or remember stories you were told from it, you will probably remember the Ten Plagues in Exodus.

My sweetheart reminded me of this the other day. He is packing up his place and is in the process of buying a condo.

Many things that could go wrong have done just that in the past week.

First, the air conditioning went out the day before July 4th…and it is STILL out. They determined a new one was needed, ordered it and the wrong one came in. They’ve reordered and it has yet to show up.

You know how hot it’s been…so just imagine packing on top of that. Let’s just say it’s been pretty miserable.

A night or so ago the boxes, which had been nicely stacked to the ceiling, collapsed, literally knocked the dining room table over, plummeting to the ground.

“Good thing no one was near at the time.” I said. “I guess we must have packed them a little too high.”

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

I suspect there are some things damaged there, but he didn’t have the heart to look inside since it really will not matter much now. We will just deal with it when we open them.

Then I get this call at 4:30 yesterday morning.

“There are bugs all over my bed. What do bedbugs look like?” He said.

I researched bedbugs quickly on the Internet and we found that, thank goodness, they were not bedbugs.

Turns out he had left a nightlight on in the bathroom and the little flying bugs, seeing it through the screen door, had made their way into the bedroom on their way to that little light.

What a mess.

“You have the plagues.” I said jokingly.

He did NOT laugh…that is, until we rehashed all the events.

“I think this is what they call “building character.” I said. “Funny, I thought you were already a real character!”

Sometimes life throws us little curves and the best we can do is make the most of them, find the humor in them and move on.

Sure hope they get that air conditioning fixed soon.

My wish for you today is that you never have a series of events hit you like this. However, if you do, may you have the resilience, and the fortitude, to survive them.

~ Joellen

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