Wireless is Touchy

Posted June 6th, 2007 by Jen in general

I’ve been out of the internet loop for a short spell as our wireless internet went awry. Wireless obviously has some great advantages, but there’s lots of bugs to be worked out - at least in my little part of the world that depends on a signal from the hill over yonder called Gray Butte. Maybe the problem was the experimental hardware given to us.

Random catch-up. June allergies have hit me in full force. I’m out in this big valley surrounded by fields of hay-fever, er, hay and such. I shouldn’t complain, because I moved to Central Oregon from Eugene, right downwind from the “Grass Seed Capital of the World.” Now that was unbearable. I blame my terrible allergies on my mother, who didn’t breastfeed me. Ah, can’t really blame her, I was born in a generation where breasfeeding was not at all trendy. But trendy or not, don’t ever expect sympathy from me if you’re tired of nursing your baby after your obligatory six weeks.

[This paragraph used to be about a certain difficult situation, which my sensitive (when did that happen? :-)) husband thought maybe shouldn’t be discussed here. So what you get now is that I continued to struggle this week with a relationship that I thought was moving forward into some degree of restoration, only to discover that it may actually be worse than I thought.]

Last week alone I overdrew my bank account, had several bloody noses from all that allergy-driven nose blowing, missed an important appointment, broke a dish, incurred countless angry customers who couldn’t get through on my business phone (that wireless problem), allowed laundry to pile up to my eyeballs, let the [edited: relationship issue] drag me into a fierce battle between depression and condemnation, and man, I’m feeling beat-up.

Wireless is touchy and so am I. I need to go get a good dose of amazing grace, so Lord, here I come.

6 Responses

  1. heidi June 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    How about just hanging out with a new friend?

    Sounds like you could use a diversion! :)

    I’ll email you and see if our schedules can converge in the next week or so. :)

    I’m sorry to hear about your fellowship issues. That is so hard! On a side note, there’s a messianic congregation that meets in Bend who has some amazing people and great teaching. Even if we do meet on Saturdays! :)

    We’ll be praying for you and your family.

    Blessings!

  2. Jen June 6th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Diversion much needed, email straightaway! I’m at blessedinthewest at yahoo dot com.

  3. Jane June 7th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Hopefully with time, [edited: this person] can experience and show some grace.

  4. Kathleen June 7th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    It sounds like you’ve had a rough week. I wish I could offer some great wisdom for getting through it. I think Heidi is on the right track, a visit with a friend will be a welcome diversion. If only I lived closer!!

  5. Dana June 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Youch. I don’t have much more to add to that.

    Now I’m going to ignore this post and go back to reading my encouraging notes which are making me feel much better about the church. I know there is the church and then there is The Church. But I wish it were clearer that we were apart of that big beautiful kingdom. That our own sin and those of others didn’t so often seem to stand in the way.

    So back to the The Church as exemplified by someone whose enthusiasm for it literally overflowed through the phone lines.

  6. Jen June 8th, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Heidi, thanks for the encouragement & prayers. I’d love to come visit your congregation sometime, it sounds refreshing and I like Saturday meetings. :-) Looking forward to seeing you next week!!

    Jane, we all need grace, for sure. Both receiving it and giving it are critical. I continue to do my best to be at peace with all men.

    Kathleen, it’s getting better. Nothing has changed, but it’s all in attitude! And I do get to visit with a new friend soon. :-)

    Dana, The Church. Why don’t you have that person call me and send some enthusiasm my way? Really, though, this personal situation I’m dealing with, while it dampens my view of the modern institution of the church, my love of The Church is very intact.

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