Signs you are having a bad couple of weeks…

1. Find out two of your grandparents (my mom’s mother and my dad’s father) are going to probably die soon (the last two at that).

2. Have your heating unit go out in your during the coldest week of the year (thank God for space heaters).

3. Forget the combination to your mini storage that has the heaters necessary to heat the house (thank goodness for tail-gating behind some stranger who did remember their combo).

4. Having the person suppose to put in your heat unable to do it when you expected first because of a snow storm preventing them from traveling safely and second not able to come do it because the person they were going to borrow tools from decided to go out of town.

5. Forgetting the password to your websites (and having to reset them through the database).

6. Loosing a set of your keys (hopefully they will show up).

7. Having someone upset at you for not reading emails they sent to you (even though I work a full time job and don’t hardly have time to do anything).

8. Having to rip up your bathroom floor because your toilet leaked under the laminated flooring and produced a odor most foul.

9. Catching the blanket you are wearing on fire by lighting candles and then having to run from the bedroom into the bathroom and flinging it into the shower to extinguish the fire (at least the smoke detectors didn’t go off). PS… this is not the right way to try and attempt to set a cozy romantic atmosphere (singed cotton does not produce a edifying smell).

10. Replacing a light fixture twice because the style wasn’t right (hey Lowe’s lets you return stuff payed for cash without the receipt if you entered your telephone number).

11. Writer’s block to beat all writer’s block (I literally can’t think of what to say to finish a 120 pages paper to finish my MA).

12. Getting jury duty request a week after your were suppose to be there on treat of contempt of court (I wrote a letter and said I got the summons late, I am opposed on religious grounds on serving).

And that’s about it. How do you deal with it a few weeks like this?

Take a few words from Job and just think about the grand scheme of things (why on Earth isn’t their a e at the end of Job?).

In Job chapter 19:25-27, the ancient patriarch who had a lot worse run of negative life events wisely said:

For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in my flesh I shall see God,
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.