Jewells of Thought

Nothing about this week has been exactly normal. After Saturday I came to the realization that I wanted and needed to write again, but this radical change in our routine has made me alter a lot of decisions the last few days.

Monday was supposed to be a post connecting me to my reaction from the Mother’s Day Banquet Saturday to the Speakers message. Now after dealing with two puppies, sisters no less for 3 days I have come down with “Puppy Brain.” It’s a real thing I kept mentioning it when I forget to press all the right buttons to vote Tuesday morning. I have been so taken in by these little German Shepherd sisters it’s hard to stop smiling, but I am ready for bed for certain at the end of the day.

All else seems to get blurry, I haven’t been up to work on the pantry at my uncle’s like I have been trying to do. Everything feels a little upended, not really a bad way I just have to fight to do some work and not play.

What really confounds me about all of this is the timing! All last year I was dealing with allergies, my allergies to dog dander coming from the trailer that doesn’t get cleaned. Then all of a sudden I wasn’t having a reaction to my brother when he got too close, then my niece didn’t make me congested or needed to sneeze. This has been quite life changing for me the past entire year. It had been a mild allergy that didn’t bother me until then, now in just a year it seems to have gone? Does that even happen?

Now two dogs are left at our house. Although dogs in general have never been my allergen. It’s the dander in the house. I have always loved dogs, but when our dog Kodie was run over accidentally that’s when I realized I still very much had the allergen 3 or 4 years ago already. What’s amazing is these dogs are very much outside dogs which is what we have wanted. Still my brain is still trying to compute all of this after dealing with allergy problems so bad I had to change pills and spray Pooph a lot.

I am hesitant, but pleased to say I think my nightmare might be over by the Grace of God. Which also fits into the Speaker’s message this weekend, “Don’t Waste Your Pain.” I have some different thoughts on this idea I want to expound on later. The timing though is another topic of interest from that same banquet and another conversation for another day. This is why we wait on God’s timing and try not to overstep His Will in our lives.

I am truly feeling humbled and blessed by the effects of the decision to wait and from hearing this message just last Saturday and how it has highlighted God’s power for me this week.