Just Thinking

How has your week been? Has it been as hectic as mine? I hope not. In my last post, I told you I was going to have a dye wool day. I did, and if you want I will show you my lovely wool.

I call them my Sunflower group.

Here is the story that goes with what I thought was going to be a quiet day. I had my first batch on the stove. I had the rest of the days wool soaking in the sink, and I was mixing a new batch of color. I heard the sound of a fire truck stopping in front. Earlier I had noticed that PG&E had heavy equipment out front but they have been out front so much it didn't register very much until I heard the fire truck.

 

I thought I maybe should at least walk outside and see what is going on. There were fire trucks in front of the house, a fire marshal across the street, so many men in service trucks, they were blocking off the street with barriers. There was a ladder truck at the end of the street and a fireman going house to house. He told me that there was a gas leak and that I might have to evacuate, but for now I needed to be prepared. I sound all calm writing this out, but I wasn't. There were men everywhere, I had men in my yard and men in my house making sure everything was safe. In and out. I just kept dying wool though as it kept me busy. I find that don't you if I can keep my hands busy, my whole body stays calm.

  Peter texted me to tell me that we had made the 11:00 A.M. news cast. I thought about it later. When there weren't fire trucks here anymore. How life is like that, you are just doing your normal things and something happens. I did think a lot about God and how He controls circumstances even when I am not aware. Maybe it is because in November someone hit a gas line just like what happened this week, and that poor family lost their entire house. It could have just as easily been me. The new family who moved in next door this weekend, were evacuated and they didn't get to come home until late at night.

But as Ma would say to Pa in the Little House Books, " Charles, all's well that ends well." I was thinking about Ma today, do you think she was really as calm as Laura made her out to be? I mean my story above sounds calm and peaceful when I read it to myself, and it wasn't like that. I was exhausted yesterday from the adrenaline that kept me going all day the day before.

I often quote this phase from Elisabeth Elliot. " The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.” I was aware all day of that and in keeping myself calm, in-spite of the circumstances.

Today though, is a new day, perfect beach weather again. A lovely May day. I hope you have a wonderful day and your weather is perfect.
Thank you for stopping by this place, and reading along. You bless my life. Sometimes the what-ifs remind me of the blessings I take for granted.

~Kim~

 

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. "---Mark Twain