Tonight at work, it was Park and Recreation night, where all the REM houses get together and do an activity together. Tonight I had two of the consumers with me and we were going to make scrambled eggs in a bag. (Very handy for camping. Just crack two eggs into a zip lock bag, add cheese, meat, onions, whatever you like in your omelet, and put it in boiling water until done.) Everything was going fine (which should have been a warning for me) until I was taking one of the consumers over to the grill to cook her omelet. She tripped on an uneven part of the concrete, bruising one of her knees and scraping the other one pretty badly. Thankfully, someone had the foresight to put a first aid kit in her car and we took care of the wound. Poor girl just wanted her flippin' omelet and she gets side winded by a piece of concrete. I just don't understand why they like going to these things. I think it's mostly about the food they get. We also made s'mores, so that helped her owies immensely.
The rest of the night I'm going to rest, relax, and do some reading, I think. It's so nice to have a night where I don't have to do anything. I certainly need that with fibromyalgia...it's really screaming its' ugly head tonight. It's hard to even get up off the couch and moving is very slow and steady. But that's life, isn't it? This may just be the thorn in my side that one of the disciples had and God wouldn't take it away from him. (RK, who was that?)
May God grant you peace and love this night and always.
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I just lost my comment as I tried to post. So this is just a test.
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RK says,
ReplyDeleteI am definitely not a happy camper right now. I just lost my post again!!!
RK says:
ReplyDeleteOk, so tiny little comments seem to be working. So be it. I'll divide my comments into little sections. Sorry to any readers if this is annoying.
The apostle Paul mentioned a thorn in the flesh in 2 Cor. 12.
RK says:
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that his thorn was a physical ailment. He says the thorn was a messenger of satan sent to buffet him. Paul was certainly buffeted.
He has a whole list in 2 Cor 11:12-33, just prior to the 'thorn' passage. Beaten with rods, stonings, shipwrecks, danger, hunger, cold, etc.
RK says,
ReplyDeleteYour story about the woman falling on the concrete reminded me of an incident that happened to me. I was teaching summer school to middle schoolers. We had gone on a field trip to a nature trail along a river. After our walk we were at the shelter eating our snack. For some reason they had all the picnic tables chained together with a thin cable. Maybe they thought someone would steal them! or throw them into the river! ? Anyway, there was a squabble of some sort between students so as I was heading over to them I forgot about the cables and scraped my knees pretty badly.
I am getting all your comments, RK. I wonder if they just don't show on your part. But that would be weird. I even got the longer post, so that's no problem, either. Keep posting! I love this blogging stuff. For $15, I can make it into a hard-cover book...I might pick a few choice blogs and do that someday.
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