I'd Like to Believe Guardian Angels Exist
A Wild and Wacky Weekend + a Monday (January 20, 21 and 22, 2024),
This will be very brief, because my hips are killing me. The worst thing about having surgery on the back of your left thigh is that sitting is awkward for a few weeks, and that immediately has an impact on the ever increasingly irritable hip joints! Ugh.
So, do I have a guardian angel? Do you? There are plenty in the world who absolutely, without a doubt, believe guardian angels exist and that they are active in our lives, with or without our awareness. Maybe they’re right? If so, what would that look like?
It might match up with how my weekend went, LOL. You see, last week I had a filling scheduled for Wednesday and surgery scheduled for Friday. That seemed like enough extra stress to add to one week, thus I’d left my weekend open for some rest and recovery.
Well, if I have a guardian angel — I believe that angel appreciates opportunity.
My guardian angel is nothing if not pragmatic. Seriously. If you’re going to have some rough patches, why spread them out? Far better to lump them all together! Especially when you have a weekend wide open and clear.
My guardian angel’s thinking:
(1) This is the best week for the oil pan to get busted. Late at night. And for your husband to wake up early, in the predawn darkness, and drive to the coffee shop without seeing all the oil on the driveway.
(1.5) Partly because your son and housemate aren’t working on Thursday, so they’ll have time to literally scrub the entire driveway with Dawn Soap.
(2) Also, because you’re going to be spending a bunch of money anyway, and that $600 fix it bill will just disappear in with the rest of the bills. Whatever bills are? We don’t have bills in Heaven…
(3) And, you’re going to be in West Seattle on Friday for that surgery, so why not wait around all day to drive the newly fixed car home? See? I’ve aligned it all perfectly!
(4) Then, I’m going to nudge your housemate to invite you to go shopping with her at Costco on Saturday, and you’ll decide to go because you love the idea of spending a day with your friend, and you’ll come home with tons of food!
(5) Just in time for me to kill the refrigerator, because, it’s going to happen soon anyway, and it’ll be easier to deal with it on a day when you have nothing else scheduled, right?
(6) Oh, and that weird skin condition that was going to happen sometime this winter? Let’s just have that start on Saturday, so you can recover from that and your surgery and your sore mouth all at the same time!
Yes, dear Guardian Angel. Well planned. Thank you.
~ March