Cool, Calm, and Collected
Actually, I had to choose between two titles for this entry. The one above was supposed to be Cool, Calm, and Collected — NOT!! but there wasn’t room for the complete title. The runner-up title, even longer, was: How Powerful Are Our Thoughts Actually?
Here’s the story:
Keith, my daughter’s husband, wanted to remodel my bathroom. He bought the most beautiful vanity and sink you ever saw, bamboo flooring, clear shower doors, new towel bars, new electrical fixtures. He painted the bathroom a beautiful yellow. Clearly, I was going to have the most beautiful bathroom in the world.
I don’t know about you, but when there is work being done in my house, I get a bit discombobulated. You have to understand that everything that had been in my bathroom was now in my living-room — the contents of four drawers, a medicine cabinet, and an overflowing clothes and linen closet. Furthermore, there was a saw horse in my kitchen, and electric saws and all, and sawdust, and my usual paths were obstructed. Funnily enough, the sawdust brought out the immaculate housekeeper in me. I swept about ten times a day, making up for lost time.
But what really made me tense was that I had house guests coming. Larry and Carol from Montana who had sponsored a Godwriting workshop in Great Falls, were riding on their Harley all the way to Iowa to visit, so I was in a little panic that the remodeling might not be done before they arrived. You realize, half the time the power was off. The other half, the water. And meanwhile, no real bathroom facilities.
And I wanted everything finished several days before Larry and Carol got here so I would have time to get everything nicely clean and organized!!!
If you have ever had remodeling done, you know there are always delays.
First, the store had supplied one box of the correct bamboo flooring, and two boxes that obviously belonged to a different customer.
To hasten things along, on the theory that two people can get work done faster than one, Keith hired a plumber to help out. The idea that two can do more work faster turned out to be a fallacy, however, because it took longer! The plumber couldn’t find the cause of a leak in the sink drain. He never did, however, for Keith found that the leak was not in the drain. The leak was in the pipes the plumber had improperly installed, and so Keith had to take all the plumbing apart and start over again.
And now I come to an explanation for the second title, How Powerful Are Our Thoughts Actually?
Just as I was chewing my nails in a complete frenzy, I received this email from Carol:
Hi Gloria. We had to change our plans and will go through N. Dak. instead of WY due to flooding — main highway closed today because the Little Big Horn River went over its banks and took out a dike. We’ll be coming down through Minnesota instead of going through South Dakota. This makes us a bit behind. We’ll arrive in Fairfield on Thursday instead of Wed. Sorry for the delay.
Much love,
Larry & Carol
Could my thoughts have caused the Little Big Horn River to overflow and take out a dike?!!!
And, if yes, can anyone ever again doubt in the existence of a kindly God?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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