Attitude Paradigm Shift

My wife has been ‘vacationing’ in a rehab facility since a fall nearly 6 weeks ago shattered her right arm … naturally she’s right-handed ☹.  This unexpected event suddenly thrust me back into temporary bachelorhood, and I’m not particularly enjoying it.

Perhaps I’m different … tone down those AMENs!😊 …  but my default response to life’s unexpected mishaps is often, “Why???”

 Spending time each day with ‘Leftie’ in a skilled nursing facility filled with rehabilitating seniors before returning to our home to boring Me, Myself, and I is equivalent to watching paint dry. But . . . it has provided lotsa’ quiet reflection time, and shifted my attitude perspective paradigm from grumpy … “Why did my spouse break her arm just prior to our jumping on a jet headed for the Last Frontier???” … to one of grateful gratitude.

It’s been said “God never wastes a mistake” (He never made one). Here’s a few recent Why??? revelations:

• Last Monday God began with a lightning strike to get my attention 😊 It felled a massive maple tree, blocking our driveway and damaging our carport. Tree removal and carport repair from nearly 5,000 miles away would have been complicated at best. Now I’m here to repair the carport and enjoy playing Paul Bunyan with my chainsaw to transform the tree debris into a pile of firewood.
• My culinary expertise is spelled MICROWAVE, although I’m currently working on my Air-Fryer certification 😊. . . I so miss my wife’s cooking! ☹
• Being somewhat fastidious, cleaning our digs has always been my responsibility while ‘Leftie’ is our home’s dishwasher and washer/dryer technician. I’ve now discovered detergent goes in a little drawer, not squirted directly on the dirty dishes and laundry; shrinking indicates various articles of clothing have different optimum drying temperatures; and my black socks are best not washed in the same load with white T-shirts, especially if they still have a little mud on them 😊
• Peering into rooms as I pass through the halls of the rehab facility is a paradoxically  ambivalent experience. The vacant, silent stares of bedridden seniors, many younger than myself, is depressingly sad. My soul floods with gratitude humbly aware that, but for the undeserved Grace of God, there am I lying in one of those beds  . . . Thank you Lord!

Such subtle epiphanies remind me how truly blessed I am to have ‘Leftie’ by my side, reinforcing the truth . . .

“Two are better than one: because they have a good reward for their labor.  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9

However, one last Why??? remains . . . Why am I so blessed? His goodness continues to run after me . . .Thank you Lord!

News Flash !!! . . . The rehab facility plans to set ‘Leftie’ out on the curb next Monday for me to fetch and bring back home . . . Hallelujah!

I M Blessed . . . May U B 2

Keep Looking Up ^ His Best is Yet to Come!