20190204- Monday – Thinking
A change in circumstances is a change in thought.
Selah, Pause and consider.
Today is the day which comes once a year when Jeff and I, with our old friends J & P celebrate our birthdays together by having dinner at a winery in the Barossa Valley.
And so I got up this morning and went through my wardrobe trying to find something suitable to wear.
I really MUST go through said wardrobe and simply get rid of so much STUFF.
In the end I chose an “old faithful,” that I would be comfortable in, and washed and got dressed.
I decided to go to Vili’s this morning and have breakfast prior to driving to Vista.
But then I received a message from Jeff that his “body was too painful and tired” to drive up to J&P and could he go in my car, and what time will I leave?
Jeff and I many years ago even when still together, ended up driving everywhere in separate cars because Jeff is ALWAYS late to everything, and I can’t bear to be late.
But now, we are both old, and health issues change a lot of things.
I suspect that “the times they are a-changing” and we will need to help each other, probably a lot.
When you are/were married, it is my observation that you are ALWAYS joined at the hip.
If you have children together, you are inevitably connected.
In my case, circumstances have required that I now live on the same property as Jeff, in the flat at the rear of his home, so this connection is amplified.
And then there are those occasions when inevitably you are brought together, like the day with J & P.
We have been doing this “once a year thing” for years and years now.
It seems to transcend all the changes and vicissitudes of life.
And then there are the “children” things.
Jeff and I both go together to “mind the grandies.”
So, once married, it seems to me that many of the ties still remain.
This is often on my mind and so I have included this “thought process” in this post.
Well, I am enjoying my driving so much at present because I appreciate it so much more, now that I will lose the ability to drive on the 27th of this month for a WHOLE 6 months.
Groan!
I have been thinking about it, and I have decided that God has something in mind for me.
I am thinking about what I would have most likely been doing if I still had my licence during the months March to June.
I think I would have gone interstate in my trailer, I think that is for sure?
But now that I CAN’T do that, what WILL I be doing instead, back here in little old Adelaide.
Well, I think I will be writing A LOT (because that is what I do when I think).
If this IS the last years before Christ comes, what will be the things I will do?
I think I will look at the years from 1975 to 1985 and write up about them, and I will sort all the photos that relate to that period of time.
I will be interested to know what I THOUGHT at that time, and what actions I took, and what actions I SHOULD have taken maybe?
And if I had been able to go interstate during the coming months, I would not have had time to write more than my daily diary and transcribe one or two studies.
Maybe God has more in mind for me than that.
Anyway, I KNOW I must make the time given to me, by the restrictions imposed upon me, valuable.
So that’s what I will do, let’s see what God will do.
