Waiting

My brain does this thing where, when it knows I have to wait for someone else to do something and get back to me before I have to do anything further, it files the information way in the back and doesn’t even look near it until that something from another person happens. Which, of course, means that, when that other someone doesn’t do that something, the file dusts away in the back, mostly forgotten for a long time. Until that one day on which I have a weird feeling, and my brain starts to ask questions about whether that file actually got handled or not. Did I do what I was supposed to do? Yes. But is it all completed???? And, with a supreme effort, the file is retrieved and I am able slowly to recall what actually happened and how the other person never did what he or she was supposed to do, and so I never finished the full task.

Unfortunately, I am in the middle of one of those events right now, directly in the process of having to remember all the details, because the other person seems never to have done what my brain was waiting for her to do. And the details are quite fuzzy right now, because sleep has not been going well for me in recent weeks… and this is a big deal one… yikes.

God, guide me clearly, please. Show me the way. Keep my husband and me and our baby safe and well. Grant us awesome sleep tonight and each night, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2025

P.S. I think there’s a raccoon on the back porch…