24 December 2012

Sorry Kate.  Must Pontificate.

This morning on our way to our morning walk, I saw a guy sweeping up dirt from the gutter, putting it in a very nice bag with writing on it, sealing it, and then I am sure he is going to sell it.  He will probably sell it as great manure or fertilizer.  I don't know, but I won't buy any.

I learned a lesson this past week.  We sleep in this bed.  Or course we sleep in a bed. Well, Bonnie sleeps on my right and on the left of the bed, next to me is a LED clock.  Every night when she wants to find out what time it is, she has to sit up in bed, climb over me almost to see the time, to see if it is time to get up, or to see if she has more hours to sleep.  We have been doing so for three months.  Well for Christmas, I decided to purchase a small electric clock for her side of the bed.  Though  I appreciate her climbing over me every night a few times, I figure it may help her sleep.

Well, we went to three to four different stores, asking about a small electric clock.  Well, it seems that they don't make electric clocks here, at least to put beside Bonnie's bed.  So we purchased one that runs on batteries, doubtful is she can see it at night.  We got it home and I started to wrap it in whatever paper I could find, sticking it together with  gum, though I hate gum.

THEN I had a brilliant touch of inspiration.  why don't I just elevate the clock on my side so she can see it without any trouble.  I put it on top of the bedside lamp and it solved the problem.  After all that discussing, seeking a solution to the problem at many stores, going all over the city searching, there was a solution right in front of my  own nose.

That is the lesson.  I felt the Spirit tell me that often when something bothers us, when we have an obstacle for anything, we search for a solution, we try to solve the problem when the answer is right in front of our nose and all we really need is humility or the desire to ask Him who knows All.  There are small and simple things, solutions, that often will resolve our troubles, it is just listening to Him to find out the solution.  That has happened too many times to mention, even in something as simple as an electric clock, non-existence in the DR, or seeing the time in the middle of the night.

FLASH MOB revisited.  We had one last night.  At 5:30, the noise level woke us both up, it was getting louder.  (we don't live on a main busy street)  Well in front of our apartment there were cars going by with speakers waking the dead.  On every car, there were hundreds of people inside and people hanging onto the outside and even people on top of every car.  They were three deep all going the same direction.  There was even a flatbed, eighteen wheeler, decorated with Christmas lights, LOUD music, filled with at least 100 people on the flat bed, all singing, shouting, and drinking a beverage, I am sure it was hot chocolate.  This "parade" went on for at least twenty minutes, road filled with car after car, all screaming and drinking, and loud music.  The dead must have been awakened.  I thought, "I  hope this doesn't go on for two days, until after Christmas."  It was quite interesting.  I guess it was a Flash Drinking, Singing, Screaming, horn honking, MOB at 5:30 in the morning.  Crazy.