I started walking home from church today. Which is a bit daring since Noon on an Florida August day can be rather warm.
But I was tired and ready to go. Hubby was in a meeting after which he had several details to tie up. He’d be an other 30 minutes.
Normally I have wait for him but today I was ready to be home.
So, I found a way. Not ideal but a way nevertheless.
Walking.
Maybe it’s a matter of perspective or personality, but I’ve always been one to think, “There must be a way.”
A few years ago my retired mom discovered Medicare didn’t cover her sleep doctor appointments. She was upset and a bit frantic on what she was going to do.
How could she afford two studies a year?
So we talked it out. “Ask your doctor if she offers a discount for cash payments. And reduce from two studies a year two one.”
Why would she need two studies?
Her doctor heartily agreed with the plan.
I sometimes we’ve forgotten our heritage in this country.
We’re the sons and daughters of immigrants, of nobility, of every tribe and tongue on the earth.
We’re the land of the free and home of the brave.
The settlers defied the odds. Made their own way. Depending on no one or nothing other than Providence and their own hard word.
We’re a nation of the poor and the rich, living side by side.
Yes our history has some dark moments — slavery, child labor, prejudice against the Irish and Jews, Chinese and Native Americans, financial schemes and the like, riots.
But we’ve had revivals and revolution. Fought wars to set the oppressed free. We’re a nation were anyone can make it if they try. If they work hard.
But we’ve changed some in the last decade or two.
We seem to feel we’re owed something. That we don’t have to work hard and earn our place in the world.
We depend too much on government. And when something doesn’t go our way, we demand restitution. We demand someone give us something.
It seems at times we’ve become the land of the dependent and the home of the fearful.
Even so, I’ve learned I have to depend on the Lord more than myself or anyone else
He’s the one who “makes a roadway in the wilderness and a river in the desert.”