Choose from among mine or create your own. I Need to Get Out More. It Takes a Village. Surprise Endings. So you already know that a certain age and a certain outdoor temperature can create a mind set. Do I really need whatever (and it’s usually ice cream for the freezer) to dress, back the car down my long driveway, and go to some gathering of stores? Also, if I am going for one item, what else needs to be added to make this trip worthwhile. This morning was such a day. I already had a required destination for a church meeting at 11:00, so the sorta list I had could be tacked on to the way there. I felt especially righteous because I spent an hour and a half on a current project – more about that later- before I cleaned up and headed out.
Major item was to buy sticky replacements for the improved plug in to capture fruit flies. I think the inventor was a relative of the same man who built a better mousetrap. I checked Amazon. I could order, yet for some reason they wouldn’t arrive until October 1. I ran a local store check and Target carried them and one of their stores was between here and there. I asked the first red shirt I saw which quadrant of the universe held my product. C-16. Way to the back and to the left. One more question because 16 was horizontal instead of vertical and I missed the seeing. While I had a helper, I asked about lightbulbs which were all the ways across the store to another far corner. I had brought the dead bulb with me. It had lighted my closet for almost 10 years and the curlicue shape had gone out of style. Since most men don’t mind being helpful to white haired ladies, I asked a fellow shopper what was the best thing to do. He had lived out of the country for 6 years and really wasn’t sure. We combined our ignorance and made a choice. I checked out at the DIY line because someone in an electric chair insisted I go ahead of her. She then offered directions about scanning and entering my phone number to get credit for future purchases. The Village Gathered!
Now all I had to do was wend my way to church, except I didn’t go back to the main artery. I soon discovered the way south was a back and forth confusion of blockage and rerouting in order to lay new sewer pipes. I thought I was closer to a solution when a noisy machine and an orange DETOUR sign with arrow appeared next to a deep open ditch. Last time I drove this neighborhood, none of this construction was happening. How long ago was that?
Finally I could turn left on Richmond, a street of choice. I was right by a post office and I did have a letter to mail that wasn’t really on the list. Once inside, I thought of stamps I needed to buy. If you get a letter with flowers or endangered species you know what I went through to make that happen. That stop was the surprise wrap up to this morning adventure. More help, guidance, and blessing may have been in the mix than I noticed.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Psalm 32:8
Let Me Tell Ya 