Friday, 12 June 2009

• Listen and One thing Leads to Another

  There is a halfeaten rhubarb crisp in the kitchen on the counter, fresh  sugar cookies baked cookies there too and two fresh loaves of wheat berry bread cooling turned on their sides on the stovetop. Also my garden is being transformed from a patch of very healthy wilderness to a more olderly patch of vegetables and flowers and I have baby chicks and ducks churruping to me from the upstairs bathroom. So life feels more summerish and a bit more fun today!!
  
  I babysat a lamb for a friend this week. I stopped to see her and tell her I was praying for her grandbaby who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and found her in tears over a little black lamb whose mother had died in the night. She explained that she had to go away for three days and did not know what to do with the lamb and asked if I would take her. I said, "Why not!? I'm planning to be home." so we packed her in the back end of the Tracker and I stuffed the box of lamb formula and bottles in the car beside the baby chicks and ducks and sacks of feed and started off on an adventure. It was intersting right off the bat to arrive home with the car so full of babies. Son was suprised and a bit miffed at first that I was asking him to drop everything and lend a hand but he cheered up and helped unload the menagerie.
  
  They've all been doing well since I got them home exept for  the first night when I woke several times to mournful baa baa baa and struggled to feed the lanb in the middle of the night. Then went back to bed only to be awakened by the loud alarming chirping of a panicked bunch of Aracauna chicks who had somehow decided to take a dip in the water dish and were now freezing cold. So I dried them off and took the water out of the box for the rest of the night just for good measure. The ducks had no such misadventure and the rest of the night went fine.
  
  The cats were curious about the lamb and the lamb was curious about them too but they never did quite get to the point of being friendly to each other.
  
  The whole incident was exciting because I felt God pushimg me to stop and tell my friend that I was praying for her granddaughter, which lead to a great discussion, and the opportunity to help her by farmsitting the lamb and to a nice visit by her and her hubby with me, Song and my hubby when they dropped by at the end of the three days to retrieve their lamb. It all makes me think that it is good to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit because you never know quite where it all is leading but it is always leading to a nice chain of events that wouldn't be able to happen without listening.
  
  And it was just the other day that I was talking to my little granddaughter about why she had pictures of ears and hands in a section of her midweek church club book. I was explaining that prayer involves both listening and talking to God. Then I came home to my sad house where our old dog had died while I was gone for the weekend. The next day I got a phone call from the feed store to come pick up my chicks who were not supposed to be in yet, and I thought to ask if there were any extra ducks, since Song was sad about the dog dying and I knew she wanted ducks. Yes they had some extras. So I got six. Then I stopped and visited my friend and got the loan of the lamb!! So then our sad house turned happy and very very busy too.
  
  Now that the lamb is gone back to the farm where she belongs it seems so quiet and I have had time to do some baking. That's why I have the counter full of baked goods. The house smells good and I feel like a happy homemaker today!!
  
  

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