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1. I'm starting my 3rd week of this 'trial' but I think today the pain in the spine has gone down a notch. I still creep around slowly with my cane, but the pain in my back is a shade or two less intense.
But I've had a number of positive or good things happen, and I'd like to dwell on those.
2. My friend, EW, took me to have x-rays taken last Thursday, and then on to my chiropractor the next day. I sure appreciate his generosity (but his car has hard upholstery, not cushioned, I felt every crack or pot-hole in the streets.)My church called and said they would bring me a number of ready-made meals. I'll I'd need to do was warm them up, - then ready to eat. The couple came Saturday. (EW was looking for a cord and my rake to finish my front lawn, and a man from Ohio who had made an appointment for a phone interview was on the phone. So I asked them to just put it on the kitchen table.)
Later, when free, I hobbled into the kitchen and counted the dishes as I put them into the fridge. 17 containers with meals!! But that is for far more than 17 meals. The tub with Chicken noodle soup gave me both lunch and supper on Sunday and there was enough left for another meal when I put the left-overs into the fridge.
Yesterday I had a giant gooyie cinnamon bun, plus a big blueberry muffin. (I should have settled for one or the other for lunch). supper was a large pork chop and vegetables.
There's still lots more - maybe 2 weeks worth!
On Saturday I wondered how I could get someone to come in for an hour to do my backlog of dishes, and some tidying up - oh, and watering my plants in the windows.
On Sunday afternoon, my cousin June and her husband showed up. She went straight to my kitchen to do my dishes without me asking.
Steve, a lawyer, sat down to talk to me about making a will. I knew my sister in BC had called him about that; she harps on it every time she phones me.
Mind you, she has also been teaching me over the phone about how to use my new iPhone 16e. (It is still mostly Greek to me.) But now she wants me to take it with me on my body, wherever I go, so that if I fall, I can press a button and the paramedics will be at the door in minutes. (Yikes!)
Oh, another things June and Steve helped me with... was to swing my curved desk around so it faces the window and I have a wide-enough space to bring my recliner close enough to work at my computer. (With keyboard on my lap.)
(I had complained to June earlier when she came alone, that I found my office chair too big, and I would be much more comfortable if I could stay in my recliner, with my heating pad at my back. Also, I wondered if it would be possible to swing the desk around.)
We accomplished that, but re-organizing my cords led to my land-line phone and the cord- less one I've been keeping close, were NOT plugged in.
I didn't know. I have lots of days when the phone never rings. Last night about 9 pm June was at the door. My sister Erma had called from Ontario, complaining that she had tried to reach me 4 times and she never even heard my phone ring.
June and I checked and yes, found that we had failed to plug in the phones Sunday. Easy fix.
All in all, despite my back pain, a number of good things keep coming into my life.
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When you are not feeling well, what do to do to find some sort of light distractions, so you are not continually feeling sorry for yourself?
You probably watch TV, right?
But I don't have a TV - nor do I want one.They can be addictive and keep you from doing the important things you should be doing.
Now I have to confess that I have reached the point in recent days when I knew I didn't have the concentration to work at my usual business stuff... but nor did I just want to doze off or stare across the room.
So I took to watching some YouTube videos. I do rather enjoy the ones about the royal family. But in the last few days there has been so much on the political crises in the USA, that I've watched a number of them to try to understand the fuss.
Oh-MY! The situation gets worse by the day and by the hour!
Then I saw one about our Prime Minister Carney announcing that Canada would avoid doing any business with the USA. From now on any deals with other countries will always exclude the USA.
From a Christian standpoint.... maybe we do well to pray that they will get all the legal stuff cleared up and put away the bad people, and already we can start praying for a great REVIVAL to sweep that nation!
They have been a leading Christian nation for many decades - even centuries, but now they need a spiritual cleansing and a Revival!
At the same time we need to keep checking our own spiritual health as individuals, and as a nation.
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Recently I've found some very interesting videos where someone is reading from the books by a Smith Wigglesworth. I've seen/heard that name before, but didn't know anything about him.
I just did a bit of virtual research and found the following:
"Smith Wigglesworth Biography | Inspirational Christians Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947) was an English evangelist and faith healer from a poor background who rose to international prominence. He worked as a plumber and was illiterate until his wife taught him to read, but he became known as the "Apostle of Faith" for his powerful healing ministry. His ministry, which included large-scale "wholesale healing," was characterized by signs and wonders and influenced the early Pentecostal movement.
When I watched/listened to a reading from his writings last night, I found no fault and was so very encouraged to believe that present trials are just Satan's way to hinder the good God is planning for us - NOT to give up!
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