Wisdom for being prepared

A recent health issue caused me to reflect on what is important to me. One reason I believe this occurred is that Forever doesn’t seem as far down the road as it used to. During that time, I also happened to be bedridden, hospitalized, and shaken awake in an emergency room at the hospital I was at, which was just the hospital that was nearest to me when I became suddenly, incredibly ill. If I “wanted to be resuscitated? Man. That has never happened to me before, and it sure does give one time to think. Of course, I had to think fast for this particular answer to a question, in that moment, to which I answered “yes”, while at the same time, realizing my trust may not say that. However, if

Faced with this circumstance yourself, no doubt you would more than likely answer as I did.

What if I had been unconscious and no one had been there to advocate for me, which was the reason I have an advance directive, but I did not have it with me? In fact, I would bet most of us don’t either have a copy with us or have just not gotten around to implementing a trust. Very important for anyone who wants to avoid the State, through probate, from having the power to handle it for you.

I want to talk further about this and plan to, but first this:

I was terribly sick as a result of a UTI that left me with a high fever and pretty delirious. I did notice that the TV was on, and when you can’t do much of anything, I discovered that there is a lot to learn on television apparently, while I am working, in addition to some old reruns of shows I used to watch. I was awake for most of three days and nights, I think

because my “circadian rhythm" has been all messed up from having such a high fever and being so sick.

This resulted in me watching about twenty-eight episodes of “Friends”, half a dozen or so episodes of “The Big Bang Theory”, several episodes of “Charmed” a little bit of “Fox News”, and then I realized, “Hey, there are things are going on in the World, outside my office, and some people are funny! Even some of the commercials have found a way

to be funny, choreographed to the tune of “We Built This City!” It was a very funny toilet paper commercial, which certainly made me laugh, because I also think they are right, and the person who thought that up deserves a raise.

Especially while being promoted via a song we are all familiar with, at least those of us over 40, and these dancing ladies had a lot of faux fur sparkles and “glam” on in addition to being able to ‘bust a move', while making their dancing way through the store, toilet paper in hand.

Since Covid, some staples have become things we don’t want to be “short on or go without, period, ever again, period forbid, out of.” Toilet paper being low in inventory is not the only thing we MUST, or rather cannot, be without. But it also seems that after many of us got our garage organized during or after COVID, we found that we

Now we have a space to house an inventory system that we must maintain.

I don’t know about you, but I can tell you that it is working splendidly at our house. I still cannot park my car in the garage, which is not news, as it has typically never been available to be used as a garage because it has usually served as my husband’s art studio.

Today, however, it is being very wisely used as an inventory storehouse, among other things. So, in some ways, it's not practical, but in most other ways, it differs as it can also give one a sense of peace of mind, which gives me a feeling of relief that kind of reminds me of an old Mastercard commercial, “priceless”.

But to return here, where I started. Do I want to be resuscitated? ABOLD and CERTAIN “YES”. Despite the trials, obstacles, disappointments, and hurts that some days bring, they are certainly outweighed by the sightings of a hummingbird delighting in my version of what goes in their feeder, or the Monarch Butterflies that fly through my garden, or even just my garden. Just some of the examples of God’s reminder to me that “yes”, there are things worth living for, waiting for and loving for.

Most of all, it is worth learning to forgive, no matter the infringement, so that nothing else can be on my mind when these beautiful reminders of God’s love for me and us pass by me. How else would I see them?