Be Ye Separate

Will it ever be over?

Blessings! 

   Today we managed to move Brother Craigs tools to the new house and we took a load back to storage...oh did I mention we actually have a storage unit!:P Blech...patooey!!! We haven't had a storage unit for many years then last year when we moved to the last place we had to put some things into storage. Intending, of course, to empty it come summer. Last summer, in fact. Well, that didn't work because life happened. Mothers heart attack, illness, new animals and on it went. It's not a big deal but it is the last of our "baggage" we really want to get rid of.

   After taking the stuff over, and dropping it all off, we picked up some bread, cheese, chicken salad and crackers and headed back to the house to have something to eat. As I'm driving I see snowflakes falling from the sky! Ugh! We get to the house and we all sit down to eat and share the next step of what we want to accomplish. After all, it's early and we have already done one trip and with the big pickup, the Excursion and the trailer we should be able to finish in one more trip with the exception of my wood cookstove, the generator, cherry picker and engine stand which our son will bring in the morning with the help of his friend.:)

   I smile sweetly at Brother Craig and let him know that though this has been a long haul, I am confident we will finally be done and how blessed I am to have him as my dear husband:) He smiles sweetly back and says, "don't you get it? This will NEVER be over. We are going to be moving for the rest of our lives. It's our penance! And although I am blessed to have you as my sweet wife and helpmeet, the mother of my children and keeper of my home, we are leaving right after we eat." What!?! He proceeds to tell me he was listening to the news on the radio while loading up from the garage and they predict snow at he new house and he wants us to be home before nightfall when the temps are due to drop to the teens.

   Nuff said. We pick up the food and set it down on the shelf for tomorrows meal, turn off the lights and lock doors and windows and exit quickly. By the time we got home it was already 25 degrees and icy! ugh!

   The careful drive home gave me time to think. Ponder. Contemplate. Here's what I came up with...

   I wondered about what some folks think happens with us when we are waiting on the Lords coming. what I mean is, everyone has such different views of what we do in this life and what happens to us after this life while we await His ultimate appearance. I knew someone that believed that there was a sort of purgatory that he would have to endure while waiting. If he was good enough during this purgatory he would be released at the Lords coming and move on to the new heaven.

   Another friend told me she believed that if she messed up in this life she would die and be born again to a new life on this earth and keep doing this until she had reached perfection and would then be welcomed into heaven.

   Yet another friend said she would have to relive her life over and over, a sort of "karma" that would help her to self judge over time. If she did something bad in this life then her next life would put her in the victims position. Such as, if she was to run over a cat, she would then come back as a cat and be run over. You get the picture. Once she lived all the lives she needed to live to learn everything she needed to ultimately learn she would then pass on to the greater glory. She wasn't sure what that would be since she was an atheist.

   This is all tongue in cheek but bear with me...:P

   What if purgatory is actually something you simply hate. Maybe purgatory is doing dishes. Never ending dishes. Or maybe it would be laundry? Or moving? What if moving was purgatory and you must move until you perfect it, do your "karma" because you didn't move in your last life and every time you break something or lose something in the move you have to do it over...gasp!

   Okay, too tired, too much time to think, too much imagination:P

   I think I'll finish unpacking a box..."just in case":P

God be with thee!

Sister Lori

So sorry, friend

{ 08:04, Monday, January 21, 2008 } { Posted by CaraDD }

I'm sorry it was not a done-deal-day. I'm sorry I couldn't help you. Ick-blech is right.

~~~You have helped to awful much that I just can't thank you enough:) You have blessed us tremendously. Without your hands and the hands of your littles I think we might be a lot farther away from finishing:P
But...today is a terrifically beautiful day and I think it will be very productive. The girls and I are leaving soon and we are going to really dig in big.
Having the food there so we don't have to break to run out for food will help too:)
I'll talk at you later!!!


Edited by SisterLori on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 11:41