The Rizers 1 Thessalonians 5:5-18 Wrong for Wrong
I am spending time this Sabbath morning watching Christian music videos for children to get my son to learn more about God.
This week hasn't been the best for my behavior lately. I've been struggling to properly discipline my son and feel defeated on many days. This week also had things happen that others would say we're coincidences, but I believe all things happen for a reason and are not random. God purposes events for us. Satan plans things against us, but even through the turmoil, God can turn anything around for our good. And of course, our will directs how many events play out as does our attitudes toward what we know is beyond our control.
This week started out with me forgetting I did not have to go into the office on Monday. I thank the Lord for putting it on my mind to grab a bunch of forms that I normally don't grab extras of. I ended up having enough for Monday's work.
I am on vacation this week and scheduled everyone well, or so I thought. I will be a year in on this job by September and have been able to see all my clients each month without huge issue. ...except for this week, the first time ever.
One of my Monday appointments cancelled a second time, this time without a good explanation. I called on Tuesday and still did not receive an appropriate response. I called my supervisor in to try to help me complete that appointment for this month. I drove to another location (still Monday) and did work in my car and I was checking my email for something else when I noticed the person my next appointment was for tried cancelling on me forgetting she scheduled this. Mind you, I'm parked outside in their garage and am 2 hours early. I went inside early and was able to be seen. While in the waiting area, I called another client to check up on her services and she shared her concerns. After hearing her, I called and spoke with her clinical manager who told me she would call me back because she had to put gas in her tires. When I spoke to the manager, we talked not only about my client's car issue, and hers, but also about my car issue and my sisters. My sister got a new car last Saturday and there was a problem with the battery.
We laughed about the car stuff, arranged for a September meeting, and I agreed to send her a document through email thinking that would be the end of car talk for the day. I drove about 15 minutes away and when stopped at a red light, a man who was walking by called to me to say my tires were getting low and needed air. Now if you recall from my last blog post, I mentioned times that people speak to me on the street as being times that are very rare. Tuesday, I had my windows down to not run the ac as much. That is something else that I rarely do.
I drove on to a gas station with free air and put air in all of my tires. Funny how my last phone call of the day had a woman tell me she had to put air in her tires and here I was directed by another total stranger to do the same thing. If I didn't have my windows down I wouldn't have heard him say anything. I'm afraid of bees so that's the main reason I keep the windows up in the summer. Coincidence?
Tuesday, I was stood up again by a different appointment and drove far to get there. The specialist there did not know the lady was not coming in either and her other provider continues to keep us in the dark. I consulted my supervisor on this situation too because I can't see her this month due to tight time constraints. After this cancelation, it was on my mind to either get a chicken kebab sandwich or DQ. I really wanted DQ, but didn't know where it was (but knew there was one in the county I was driving through).
I had one last meeting Tuesday afternoon, and while on my way, I received a call from the person I was to see Wednesday and it turned out she put the appointment in her calendar wrong. She thought I was coming Tuesday. When she called me, I pulled off on a street from the main road in an area I was "slightly" familiar with to check my records and confirm that we were to meet Wednesday morning, not tuesday. I continued driving to return to the main road and realized I was passing by the place one of my clients used to reside. We both moved for June. Also the block I would have passed if it had not been for me pulling up a random side street in the area, had the dairy queen I wanted to go to, but the way the roads are over there, it was hard to get over there (traffic in both directions makes it nearly impossible to make the two left turns needed to get there safely.
I tried doing other back streets, but couldn't get to the DQ so I gave up and headed on to my last meeting. Coming into the waiting area of my last meeting, the very person who used to live in that old apartment complex I passed not even an half hour earlier was sitting in the waiting room waiting to go to her 1pm dental appointment. Coincidence?
I chatted with her and her staff before leaving for my meeting in another area of the building. After the meeting, trying to get home was ridiculous and I got lost following my GPS that I had to give it up and follow my own instincts to get home and avoid traffic on the major highways and byways. If I stayed with the GPS, I'd still be stuck in a sea of cars wasting gas and battery power. I did get the chicken kebab sandwich and it lacked the delicious predictable flavor I came to expect with each purchase from that restaurant.
My last thing (coincidence) that happened with me was having the desire to listen to video game music and watch a YouTuber play supermario brothers because it brought back fun memories of my childhood yesterday. It started with some weird video playing final fantasy music in the background, which lead to a binge on Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Kirby game music. I am a piano player as is my older sister and we both were really into learning the music for these games as teens in our leisure time.
Well it's Sabbath and I am playing videos for my son along with 3abn programming and I viewed a video I never saw before. It gave different video game scenarios of characters playing and climbing ladders and beating opponents. One was like Q Bert. Another like Little Sampson ( arcade style/old Nintendo games). The difference was that who ever won at the end noticed the losing character and treated them kindly. Now in super Mario, you jump over Bowser and drop him in lava to find the princess is always in some other castle cause they like to play you like that. You stomp on turtles and angry mushrooms. You throw objects at cute veggies to get them out of your path in Kirby. Not so nice.
The Rizers video Wrong for Wrong in many ways brings my confusing week full circle. Nothing is coincidence and there is a lesson in all of this. As angry as my son might encourage me to get, I have to treat him with kindness and love. Things are not always going to go the way I want them. Since sealing up my window that was letting in wasps and who knows what else, I had a fly get in yesterday and today. Through the ventilation system, I don't know. My central air system wanted to take a break yesterday afternoon and that's no good because it was 90+ and I don't have my car to just drive some place cooler. Yeah, I dropped the car off for repair on Thursday. My appointments were all over the place and I have prided myself with a perfect record of completing my meetings each month for almost a year, but this week 3 tried bailing on me and 2 are left to my supervisor or other agency staff to cover.
I don't have complete control on what happens around me, but I do have control over my reaction to it. I thank the Lord for bringing me through all this.
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