Ah, a lesson

What is the lesson?

It could be: Strike while the iron is hot.

It could be: Be glad you can get down on your hands and knees and clean.

What happened is that I slipped on the ice the other day, landed flat on my back and my left arm. Everything is fine except my left arm which I suspect is sprained. My arm really hurts when I move it in certain ways.

I can type without any difficulty. I can do light dishes. To lean on my left hand I cannot. To lift with my left arm or hold a frying pan, I can’t. To sweep, I cannot, for it requires two hands.

So, here I am, wishing I could scrub and make everything pristine.

I swear to you that when my left arm is totally mobile again, I will take advantage of it.

Heaven Admin will be amazed at how splendidly I keep house. I will honor what a gift it is to be able to keep my house ship-shape. I will be so grateful to have the ability to have full use of my arm.

I believe my lesson is: Be glad to pick up after myself. It is a privilege to be able to.

I remember a dear friend in San Francisco from my youth who would say: “Be glad you can do something for someone. What if you didn’t have the arms or legs? Then you would be so happy you could.”

And now, so many years later, the lesson is beginning to take hold.

Posted by Gloria on December 30th, 2009 under these topics
Decluttering, Personal Development, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Lynda Hallett on December 30, 2009

Aren’t lessons the most wonderful thing?
(Well, perhaps after a few days have passed and we can then reflect.)
Life is certainly a comedy at times.

I wonder in the years to come, will we have need of lessons such as these?
Or will we, as both Emilia and Jochen have mentioned, find our “speciality” and live in Utopia. And be in the moment.

Ah, Gloria you and I are quite similar in our personalities, and our experiences. Four years ago, I had a chair collapse under me, and sustained a very severe left foot injury. No weight bearing for 3 months.
I was totally reliant on my ex husband (the one who loves messes)to clean. My lesson was all about control. I had to give it up, and accept life in the moment, and be in the moment.
I suspect along with being grateful that we have limbs to be able to get down and clean, we accept when others are willing and able to do it for us.

If nothing else, God will keep banging on the hood of our cars, and provide us with not so subtle reminders.

Reply from Jack van Raders on December 31, 2009

So sorry to hear you hurt yourself on the ice. Come here, I swim daily. I wonder though could I still scate it is more then 45 years ago I put on skates. would not mind trying but then it will be cold and I do not enjoy cold weather that is why I live in the tropics and with Love every where it is Paradise wish you all were here Love you all. Jack

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