Shame on ME!!!

 

Shame on me!

This is for all my lady friends out there in space land. This last week I have been without a kitchen.. As mine has been ripped out to be replaced with a new one.. Lovely I hear you say, to have a new kitchen.. Well I thought so too, having seen the plans and the computer enhanced pictures of what my new kitchen would look like.. But it’s been fraught with problems, and what should have taken a week. We are now coming into the second week and I have been without water and a sink in the kitchen for 6 days.. And it’s looking like it will be Thursday next before I am sorted with water in the kitchen due to the water board dragging its feet..

So in the mean time I have to fill the kettle from upstairs and wash all pots in the hand basin in the bathroom upstairs, and go and eat out every day as we have no cooker installed as yet either.

And then I caught myself moaning..

Stop!

 And I stopped myself right there!!

 For I saw in my mind’s eye, young children being carried on their mothers backs while they had huge plastic containers of water balanced on their heads, as they walked barefoot across parched earth to find their nearest water hole, if any were still to be found..

And I said thank you Sacred Father… for blessing me with clean water.

I saw in my mind’s eye, Children who’s bellies were swollen, and lips that were cracked and flies in the corner of their eyes..

And I said thank you Sacred Father for the Food I eat, regardless of how or where it is cooked.

 And I saw in my mind’s eye tin huts, people huddled together for warmth, I saw them with the sky as a shelter, and a sheet tied in a knot with all their worldly goods inside..

And I said thank you Sacred Father for the roof over my head, and the means I have to keep warm.

I saw in my mind’s eye adults and children with no limbs, who walked the wrong way that day treading on a land mine. I saw the sick dying with no medicines or medical aid.. I saw the orphaned children,

I saw the terrible conflict of war..

And I said thank you Sacred Father for my mobility, For my health, for my family, and for the Peace I experience..

And do you know what….

 What’s Two weeks or even a month, without a Kitchen!

Count your Blessings every one!

Dreamwalker