Glory turns crazy and Hilarious!

Tuesday morning found me delighted to be outside in the glorious freshness of a new day. I had risen early, eaten a delicious breakfast and 2 cups of my exquisite organic fair trade dark roast French pressed coffee. It had poured rain overnight, thus the freshness of the day. Sunshine was peaking through between the left over clouds in the magnificent sky.

Hallelujah Lord, Thank you for your glory and beauty. Even as I deeply inhaled the air had a level of beauty all of it’s own.

Part of what I love about this time of year is that I get to wear my bright red goretex jacket. I love red. I love that jacket, it always makes me feel spry! ( wink, good word hey?! LOL!)

Usually I have my camera handy, there is a little word called ‘addiction’ that you could readily apply to my photo snapping, but I am okay with that. Snap, Snap, got a few great shots, now off to work.

Have you ever heard me mention how much I love to go to work? I LOVE to go to work! It doesn’t really feel like work (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone that I said that!) it feels more like, oh, social coordination, or visiting, or organizing ‘stuff’ – I love to organize ‘stuff’, or creating, there is a lot of creative stuff that happens at the L’Arche Outreach centre (which always needs volunteers by the way….250-334-8320…just sayin’!).

I arrived just in time to answer the phone, Christine called to ask me to turn on the heat in the boardroom. Sure, no problem , I can do that!

Upon arriving at the boardroom, I noticed that the lights would not go on, then as I turned the knob on the heaters there was no defining “click”. Hmmmm.

As I flicked the light switch inside my office upon arriving back inside the ORC, (outreach centre) there was NO light. All of a sudden I realized how flippen’ cold it was inside. Brrrrrrrrr! What is going on…..I always leave the heat on low?

Well, Christine got there and we started to investigate. For crying out loud, what is going on, no power in the L’Arche office or the ORC. Called Hydro, they have no clue why but will send someone over. The breakers are all fine and there is nothing obviously wrong.

Hydro arrived about an hour later, they sort of chuckled and said, “well, it’s no wonder you don’t have any power, someone stole your meter outside.” WHAT! We went out to look for ourselves. Can you believe it? Somebody snapped the little band that was securing the meter to the wall, and removed the meter! How mean! The Hydro fellows informed us that we were not the only ones who had our meters stolen that night. The Salvation Army and the Alano club also had the same thing happen. 3 non profit agencies that help people with needs. How disgusting. God please bless them because I am a little ticked right about now is what was going through my mind....actually I think my outside voice was activated at that point.

I had to cancel our afternoon painting class as it was SOOOOOOOO cold inside and it takes a very long time to heat up. I was not impressed, Christine had meetings scheduled all day and needed to print things off, I hadn’t been able to access the computer or use any of the phones as the power had been off for so long that the charge had died in the base. Oh so frustrating!

Fast forward 3 hours…. I still had no phone and no internet, there is some heat finally but I was hovering over the little oil core radiant heater that I have under my desk. Brrrr!

Christine said she had no heat and the lights weren’t working….someone else showed up and the two of them looked around the outside of the other office building. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? There is a separate meter on the her office building across the parking lot, they stole THAT one TOO!

Oh Come On!

The day was definitely disrupted, we were not thrilled, or very warm, so much to do this week to get ready for the Fiesta and we were still regrouping after our Big L’Arche Dinner Dance last Saturday.

Oh well, putting life in perspective, realizing that many things happen around the world every day that made our discomfort on Wednesday pale by comparison.

One little example…So, remember I started off by telling you how amazing the morning was and that I loved wearing my read jacket? Well! What I didn’t share earlier was that as I was walking briskly to my car from my front door, while very aware of the brilliant red colour of my jacket, I noticed a hint of purple out of the corner of my left eye. Preoccupied with the lovely day, I didn’t really give it much thought, until AFTER I snapped the photos and reached into my pocket for my keys. “What the heck is that? OH MY GOSH!!! Nooooooooooooooooooo! Please let it not be so….!” My jacket was hanging on my closet doorknob, right above my folded laundry in the basket….the Velcro on my jacket snagged the lovely delicate lace edge of my PURPLE UNDERWEAR!

Oh Man…. What a crazy day!

Thank you Lord for a terrific sense of humour! I am blessed richly! And now everyone else gets a great belly laugh! Happy reading Beloved!