Step One: Pick up a telephonic communication device.
Step Two: Using normal digital dexterity, depress the relevant buttons.
Step Three: Confirm and dispatch the input digits.
Step Four: A voice acknowledges that contact has been achieved.
Step Five: [This is the big one].The preceding steps having been achieved; enter into dialogue with the voice on the receiving telephone. Respond to the voice in supplying the required information before being transferred to another disembodied voice. Receive instructions.
Step Six: Disconnect and attempt to follow received instructions in another area of my life.
So, that’s my major achievement of the day, carrying out a business transaction on the telephone without becoming unduly stressed. It’s too difficult to convey just what an achievement that is!
- living and frequently struggling with moderate M.E. -
where (bad) health, faith, politics and the joys and troubles of daily life collide.
ME
2 comments:
Bloomin' miracle if you ask me!
Thanks for your comment on prayer, Mal. Sometimes it's the only thing. You're dead right about fighting egocentricism, but petition is also okay. Don't hesitate to pray for yourself; you will only be joining many others in the request, including myself.
One of the few other things I can do for you is to point toward a treasured passage in II Cor:
"4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
I'll meet you up there for sure, ole Buddy.
BTW I love York Co. Some of my ancestors lived there. Ann and Richard Clayton worked for Margaret Fell before they became distinguished Quaker leaders.
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