Be Careful What You Ask For

Last week, I found that I was not only double-booked, but 'triple-booked', for three different events which were scheduled at the same time last night, and which could not be changed nor postponed.

Throughout the week, I thought fervently, 'I want very much to go for all 3, why did they all have to fall on the same night? Why did I have to choose one?

If only I didn't have to choose!'

So, after many heated internal debates that week, I came down with a bad sore throat and fever yesterday afternoon, went home early at 4 pm, took an aspirin, and was knocked out cold for the rest of the night.
Therefore, in one fevered-night, I missed :

1) A talk by Dr. David T. Suzuki (Canadian geneticist, science broadcaster, and environmental geneticist). After waiting 3 months in anticipation, and booking seats 1 month in advance. How rare is it that an eminent scientist comes over to Australia, and how much rarer is it that they'd come to quiet Adelaide to give a talk?

2) A gathering with several good friends, whom I haven't had the chance to properly catch up with for a long time. Although we see one another around sometimes, we're often busy or distracted by other things. Therefore, an opportunity to spend good quality time with friends, away from our 'busy-ness', is something that I treasure.

3) A performance by reknowned multi-instrumentalist James Morrison at the Edge Conference, after waiting for nearly a year, and whose concerts and performances I've missed twice already. Now I'll probably have to wait another year again.

AHHHHHHHH!!!

But, in the end, I didn't have to choose after all...

I'm sure I'll see the humour in this... once the fog in my head clears a little, and once I get over the initial 'multi-disappointment' (from missing not just 1, but 3 events... :)

So yes, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it ... :)

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p.s. I called to make an appointment to see the Uni doctors, and was told they had no free slots till Monday (?!) Which is 3 days away, and by which time I'll be either much better or dead... So till then, I'll be pumping myself with aspirin and strepsils, and contributing to a chemist/pharmacist's profits.

Wouldn't it be funny if those were the very things that the doctors prescribe to me on Monday?

The Shadow of Doubt

Fear and doubt can often cast a shadow that may obscure the beauty of what is laid out before you...

OCF SA National Prayer Day

" If it made a difference to one person... even if it was to only one person... then it's all worth it. "

I'm thankful for the reiteration this morning... It may seem insignificant, but it's quite an encouragement for me... to know that others confirm and speak of the same things that are on my heart.

And although we 'sacrificed' a Saturday sleep-in, and dedicated a whole morning to pray together, I'm very refreshed from it :)

On some other matters, I am heartened, but also troubled... by similar things that burdened my heart nearly a year ago... What can I say, only...

Lord we need your grace and mercy
We need to pray like never before
We need the power of your Holy Spirit
To open heaven's door

Chorus:
Spirit touch your church
Stir the hearts of men
Revive us Lord
With your passion once again
I want to care for others
Like Jesus cares for me
Let your reign fall upon me
Let your reign fall upon me

Lord we humbly come before you
We don't deserve of you what we ask
But we yearn to see your glory
Restore this dying land
*Chorus

- Spirit Touch Your Church
By Kim Bollinger