When nothing goes right....

I have a tablecloth with all kinds of quotes painted on it. One of them says, "When nothing goes right, go left."
In one sense it is just s funny little word play, but i like it even more for the wisdom it shouts out. When nothing goes right...change your way of doing things, change the way you think, change direction.

Nothing has been going right lately. You would think that battling, living and sleeping this diesease was bad enough, but with all of this there is so much more on the not-so-wanted full plate. And it is not something yummy to eat! Hard to feel God's care and love when nothing goes right.

We bought a house through a respectable-name-agency and after 7 months the deed is still not ours....three attorneys later and still no answers....hard to feel God's care or love at a time when nothing goes right.

My own health is not so great either - stress has a way of wearing down the old immune system...but still i need to lift and care, wake up all hours to help, push around and feed - even when i am bone tired. No rest, no breakthrough, nothing goes right.

In the dead of night, contemplating life, it is very hard to feel loved and cared for. But then i remember a friend's words.. "make a big thing of the little things" and I do just that.

I make a big thing of the fact that my dearest loving but suffering husband has such a strong faith and a deep peace - and as i write this, this so called little thing actually takes it rightful place as the huge blessing that it is.
Through a friend i find a new attorney - and i make a big thing out of this In Faith!
I make a big thing out of the fact that i made it intact through yet another day. Caring as i should.
I make a big thing about a friend taking time out to bless me.
And i realize that these seemingly little things in my eyes were not so small after all. My problems make them look tiny, but in reality my problems are the small things.
And God's love and care suddendly surrounds me.

When nothing goes right....go left.

Bella
"The Eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms." Deut 33:27