Finding Your Way to Hum Through the Day
UNKNOWN CALLER.
At least it didn’t announce a potential scam. But this new message on my phone had already tried to call once. All of my Spidee senses tingled.
Don’t get me wrong, the message included an official title and name, but I’ve fallen for enough scams to know to verify before I trust.
I had just started looking up the name in the messenger when my phone rang. It was the same number calling… AGAIN!
REVERSE For Clarity
We need to stop here.
Let’s rewind a few hours so you can be where I was.
My day actually started just before 2:30 am.
Some days, that would be a bad thing.
I had made a major mindshift at the first of the month.
Everything has a positive and I am going to find it.
So, 2:30 am wakeup meant I had time to wash my hair, and let it dry naturally.
I have a lot of hair. Both processes take time and effort.
I passed my husband on the way to the bathroom and he told me he was having trouble sleeping. But he went back to bed and found a way.
Meanwhile, I washed and fluffed, then jumped into my Scripture readings. I ate a quick breakfast, because even though it was only 4:40 am, I had been awake for a while and my stomach made sure I knew it.
Wow!
There was time for prayers and prayer sharing.
No rushing around. No skipping tasks to try and catch up. My focus was on target and my attitude was in the clouds.
My day skipped along. Okay, no skipping. I don’t skip.
But my day was humming along. Literally and figuratively.
Figuratively, things were moving along at a nice, simple, and smooth pace. I was getting things done. I was staying on target. I was staying on schedule. All was well.
Literally, I couldn’t stop humming unless it was to sing. Did you know that humming actually helps reduce stress? That’s what I read and that’s what I’m leaning into.
So I was humming. It really was a very good day. Thank you, Little Bear.
My stomach requested an early lunch, so after cutting up the watermelon we brought home on Monday, I had it with some tuna fish salad I’d made for Keith’s lunch the next day.
See. Everything was running super smoothly.
I had just sat back down to work when the mystery caller started the game.
BACK to the Beginning
The message said it was the school. And the voice on the phone when I answered the second call confirmed it was the school.
Nobody wants to get that mid-day call from the school. Especially when they are that persistent.
Still, my positive focus really did think, “hey, maybe they are calling to see if I want a job.” The school had been advertising several positions.
“This is the school nurse. Your husband passed out in class. We have an ambulance on the way.”
Definitely NOT what I was expecting. The humming stopped, and the crying started.
I cried. Regained my composure. Cried. Regained my composure. Cried … and then I kicked into action. Since we are a one-car family, I had to arrange for someone to pick up my youngest from college. It just so happened that it was his late day at school.
I grabbed a few things that I could work on while I waited, added mints and a water to my purse, changed my mind, and swapped out to a second purse to carry into the ER (because they sometimes search your purse and I didn’t want to wait that long for them to go through that mom purpose).
I put away the lentils I had thawing so I could make lentil loaf (I don’t know what that is, but I was planning to invent it. I texted a few prayer warriors.
And I cried.
The school texted me when the ambulance arrived so I could meet them at the ER. “Are you okay to drive?”
Of course I was. I had to be. There was nobody to drive me.
I did the only thing I knew to do. I hummed. I hummed loud and hard. I hummed quiet and calm. I hummed rock songs. I hummed praise songs. I hummed all the way to the ER and then in the waiting room as well.
Want to sit alone in the waiting room, try humming. I cleared the bench in record time.
I don’t remember praying anything, although I had prayed earlier and I may have told God something like, “It’s settled.”
And by the time I sat down in the waiting room, it truly was settled. I had peace. I had calm. I had quiet. No what ifs. No worries. And definitely no if onlys.
Humming Along With Little Bits
I began to see how everything in my day had worked out so that I was set up for this perfect calm.
The prayers I sent out earlier in my morning – responses were coming in, many offering up prayers to me in response (without knowing my need).
The prayer warriors I had contacted stirred up a prayer army that covered and comforted me.
The Scriptures I had read first thing were tumbling around in my head – many I knew from songs I had grown up singing.
Coincidence? No!
God covered? Absolutely.
It wasn’t one big thing that made the difference. It was the little bits that had piled up with the little bits that had wound up with the little bits until I had stacked up a wall of God that made all the difference in my walk.
It may not show in the visible world, but the Word and God-focused, faith-filled Word walkers surrounding me, showed up for my heart and in my spirit – and THAT makes all the difference in the world.
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