I am home and enjoying my time at home. I'm not only home after scheduling PTO time for the rest of 2020 with my main job but I am on an unexpected leave of absence from my part time.
Saturday night I went to work and about 2 hrs before the end of my shift, I took one of my last mints. I'm a stickler for gloves and do not remove my mask at work. People don't even know what I look like...at least those who came after April or May. I don't know what happened. It may have been the air I breathed in the moment I took that mint. It could be what has been going on with my tooth but I left work not feeling too great. I wanted to finish shopping for my parents and sis so I went to a nice store and had hesitated in the parking lot. I went in, did my shopping and came out to go pick up my son. By the time I made it to their house, I had a sore throat for sure. I had hoped it would go away but it lasted all through Sunday and all Monday. Monday, I had to answer yes to one of the questions on the questionnaire. I have a sore throat. I also felt like I was getting an ear infection again and was not certain if I had a fever. The pain was going down into my chest area...a weird pain like when I felt like pneumonia was coming on.
I called out of work and requested a leave of absence so I could get a COVID test. I felt fine by Tuesday but to my surprise, I couldn't get a test as easily as I had done before. I ended up getting a test on December 23rd in a town 45 minutes away from me. Everyone was booked and after I went there, they told me a delay was expected due to Christmas.
So it is Sunday night. I'm sti waiting for my results. I requested my leave be extended to January 2nd because I got a message saying it might be mid week and I need to know ahead of time to inform work.
I am happy to be home. I pulled a muscle around my shoulder blade and I need to rest anyway. Christmas was canceled for my son. He did ask much wrong each day, he just took things too far. I am saving his gift for his birthday which is in less than a month. I had wanted to do a tubing/ski trip but I was not seeing alot of safe options for us. It's probably best that I save his gift until then. But if he misbehaves again as badly as he did these past few weeks, this gift will be his 2021 Christmas gift. He needs to learn his lesson and he will learn it hard.
The last Sabbath of the year was a trying one. We were to have youth on but leadership failed in preparing the youth. The most important thing you need to be sure of is if they want to participate. You can't just put people's names down and expect them to come through. I believe that's what happened and it was a sorry sight. We have a lot of work to do as a church. We have alot of work to do as parents. People are going through tough times right now and they are cracking. People's realness was heard church wide on zoom and they didn't realize the microphone was on. There is a lot to do. I'm still down for it. I will try to do what I can and let the Lord lead with the rest. I was uncertain if the youth were going to sing a song and I was ready to play something if they didn't come on the line as they didn't before. I turned to the song When He Cometh and to my surprise, out of all the songs they could select in the hymnal, that was the one they chose to sing for Special music.
It's just a reminder that God is still in control. He is giving us direction. Are we listening?
May we have better ears to hear in 2021, if it is the Lord's will that we should see it.
God bless you and Happy New Year to you 💗.
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