12-32pm
Getting back into work after 2 weeks of sleeping late took its toll this morning. I woke up very, very tiréd. So tempted was I to reset the alarm and go back to sleep, but if I do it once, it may become a habit, so I varied my quiet time. I could quite easily and dozed off while praying, so I alternated it with Bible reading! It worked well and I left home for work refreshed and ready for the day…I got to work with the first rays of dawn…
Into the studio at 6am – all ready to go ‘on air’….
Good to have Wayne back…He was there when this happened: At 7-50am, my cell phone rang…fortunately there was a song on and took could take the call. It was Mavis, my home help. Her English is sketchy “This is Mavis… Granny fallen. She is on the floor. Come”. Click. No further details. I didn’t know if she was breathing, if there was blood or if anything was broken! I phoned Mike and he started for home. I got Focus on the Family started and phoned Mavis back. I managed to find out that Granny was now sitting on the bed. “Pain?” I asked. “Has she pain?” “Not too much!” said Mavis. I phoned Mike back…he was already more than half way home. He turned around and went back to work. He got hold of David and asked him to go home and find out what was going on. I sent Mavis an sms – I’d been home at 9-15am. David got home and surveyed the damage….he called Mike to say she had hurt her face but nothing life-threatening. She was sitting in the lounge watching TV. And that was how I found her when I got in. She appears to have hit her face on her wooden bed frame…a big bruise has already appeared next to and below her right eye. The bruising extends to her right cheek bone, below which the skin has broken and there was a bit of blood. It’s a bit sore, but she is ok. 🙁 So we have made a decision, Mike and I, to put her on the waiting list of a frail care centre in Cape Town. It will probably take about a month to get our act together to get her name down and then a further 4 months for her name to get to the top of the list. That’s 5 months. I will take whatever comes. If the Lord wants to take her home before she moves, that will be ok. If her name comes up before that, I believe she will be safer in frail care than at home. It’s a hard decision to make. It is one I have been thinking about for some months. In fact, it was one that we nearly decided upon more than a year ago. Mentally, she is getting worse and I have always thought that if her mental state is so frail that she doesn’t really know the difference between home and elsewhere, it will be easier to move her. So there you go. Those are my thoughts and I don’t only lay them down on my blog, but as I write, they are plans laid before the Lord, with the request that He have the final say in this matter.
Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.
Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 16:1 We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer.
Won’t it be interesting to wait and see what happens? We will soon find out what the Lord has in mind.
So getting home early today, I kept walking past the puzzle and putting in a few pieces, but it, like Granny, has become a bit of a conundrum…
Oops! 🙂 I’ll have to try and sort that out! This is what is left…
Watch this space!
After I got home, David and Peter left for Cape Point and at 10am, I went to sleep for 1 hour! Woke up feeling fabulous. This is what I walk up and down, many times a day..at home…
David and Peter are now back from Cape Point which was wonderfully wind free…a perfect day for it. Here’s Peter striking up a conversation with Benji the Budgie…not very successfully, I have to say…Benji’s a bit short on conversation!
And now I must go and make toasted sandwiches for lunch and perhaps basil pesto penne will be for dinner. A bit of shopping this afternoon and show prep still to do, but at least I feel I’ve caught up on some lost sleep! 🙂
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂