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Friday Reflection- April 12th 2024
Sandra’s Soliloquy
Greetings, whatever time it is you are reading this. I’m writing it at 4.20 am today, trying to put off feeding my cat who feels it is breakfast time. I feel 5am is sufficiently early enough.
I do not have set times for doing things, but feel fairly flexible since retirement (goodness me how many years is it?) Having a cat certainly changed my life immensely for the better, and I don’t mind being awake early and reading for a while, before sleeping for a few more hours after a drink and maybe a biscuit, folding washing even, whilst I wait for her to eat. They say cats sleep up to sixteen hours a day, and often are awake when you want to sleep. It’s true.
This week, I am very grateful for the police who stayed with me when my car drove over something at a busy roundabout, causing my tyre to blow. After the initial shock and panic, I was able to call the RAC, then the police as I didn’t feel safe on a very busy parkway, with no hard shoulder, at a point where three lanes went into two, with no protection from large lorries thundering past me. The people on the phone were most kind and helpful, arranging for police to come out immediately, offering to talk to me whilst I waited. The police coned off the lanes and kept me company for over two hours until the RAC arrived. Four police, with a van and car. A second car pulled over with a puncture too, having hit debris, but being an older car, theirs actually had a spare tyre, which I hadn’t realised mine was lacking. The police helped them change their tyre and they were sorted.
I am attempting to ignore my cat who is sitting at my left shoulder, staring at me, wanting to guilt trip me into feeding her.
Yesterday, I was able to enjoy a sunny drive over to Thorney, to an outpost of our Drs for a physio appointment, after my daughter insisted I see them for a painful shoulder, which I have been hoping since about October would get better. She made me ring them in December when she was staying with me, and since then, I’ve missed a number of phone calls from them early morning, but they persisted and caught me one afternoon. The gentleman was lovely and I feel better for knowing what the problem is with some suggestions for dealing with it, and the carpal tunnel I evidently have in my wrist too. Apart from the coping adjustments I have made for dressing…haha. I was then able to babysit for a while ,whilst my said daughter went for x-rays on her wrist, and getting her car cleaned, which has been bugging her.
Today, two daughters, grandchildren and me, hope to visit Anna’s Ark at Coates, a local charity I follow on FB, to see an array of animals and enjoy being in the outdoors. It is run entirely by volunteers, and they rescue many aged and unwanted animals, set up originally by a lovely vet whom we were privileged to meet and who looked after our dogs too when we moved here.
So why I am I sharing my diary for this week, writing about my personal life? I suppose because I see God Blessing me, keeping me safe, being with me in everything that I do, and what happens to me, in spite of the many terrible things I can’t avoid seeing in headlines on the internet. Oh yes, I even enjoyed some banter with a retired Dr calling at my door one evening, canvassing for upcoming local elections. I would never have believed it as I feel so disillusioned and often angry about politics and politicians.
God is with us in every little detail of our lives, and for that I am truly grateful.
I pray that you feel His Presence too and see answers to your prayers. I pray that we have more sunshine and can enjoy being outdoors. I pray for our friends, family and strangers who are struggling with ill health or life. I thank God for the people who stayed with a lady who fell this week, waiting over two hours on the ground outside local shops for an ambulance, whilst everyone walked around her, some several times, feeling helpless. Us and her. I pray that she recovers from the badly broken hip she suffered.
Lord hear our prayers we ask, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
(and thank you for our pets and all animals in rescue charities and those who look after them)
Psalm 136
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His Love endures forever.
God Bless-Sandra x
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