Random notes

First: If I'm diagnosed with some major brain malfunction in the near future, you can tell them all that it started when I began dropping almost everything I touched.
The random dropping of things began at Luke's birthday, when I dropped our camera and broke it to smithereens. I wasn't jostled or experiencing a near-fall; I was standing perfectly still, and I just dropped it. (If there are very few pictures to post in the future, you'll understand why. No camera.)

Then, the next day, when shopping for Christmas presents, I was standing at the front door to the store, waiting for my mother who was checking out. Holding my new purchases in my hand, and again, not being jostled or nearly falling, I dropped my big sack, breaking the breakables within. Sigh.

Yesterday, on my way to pick up Luke from school, I was carrying several sacks of teacher gifts, and you guessed it, I dropped one, shattering the candle inside.

Last night, I opened the refrigerator door, and dropped a big glass bottle of oil, which oozed and smeared itself everywhere by the time I cleaned up the big, greasy mess.

I've even infected Luke, who opened the cabinet door tonight and dropped a glass, which shattered all over the newly de-greased floor.

So, heads up if I'm coming to your house anytime soon. Lock up the valuables and anything breakable--apparently I'm worse than a toddler.

On a VERY unrelated note:
I read this great paragraph in one of my favorite books: Philip Yancey's Reaching for the Invisible God. I'm one of those people who has always wanted to do something really BIG for God, and also one of those people who has failed miserably in doing so. So this paragraph really means something to me:

"Peter Berger [renown sociologist] said that I had a rather grandiose notion of radical obedience. Somewhere in a retirement home, he said, there is a Christian woman whose greatest fear in life is that she will make a fool of herself because she will not not be able to control her bladder in the cafeteria line. For this woman, the greatest act of radical obedience to Jesus Christ is to place herself in the hands of a loving God every time she goes off to dinner. Berger's point was profound. God calls us to deal with the challenges before us, and often our most "radical" challenges are very "little" ones. It may mean listening to someone who is boring or irritating, or treating a fellow sinner with a charity that is not easy to muster, or offering detailed advice on a matter that seems trivial to everyone but the person asking for the advice."

Honoring God, not by doing something big but by doing "ordinary things in a new spirit" (C.S. Lewis)is hopeful to me.

Have a blessed Wednesday.
Jana