I might as well still be on strike...

Got a note from the IT guy...

"Found it. Bit of an error in shipping. This has been rectified and redirected to you.Your fax is another issue. Still waiting to hear about it.Appropriate parties have been flogged.D."

That was two days ago...still nothing. I like his sense of humor.

Speaking of a sense of humor....I went to the eye doctor last night. He was um...professional. He said to me, after listening to a littany of complaints, that I was normal for "post 40". "Let me put it like this," he said, "You can't run like when you were 20, right?".

"Um, yeah" I said

"Well you can't see like you were 20 either".

Funny guy. Anyway they told me my lenses would be a minimum of $400 and my frames would be around $200. The good news was that if I bought my contact lenses from them as well, I would get a 10% discount.

So early this morning I was praying my usual prayer. And thought about the whole glasses, crazy, huge, big price tag.

Peg and I went to our old haunts in Stony Plain this morning and then over to a "Glasses Store" to do some comparison shopping. I asked the lady how much my lenses would be and she said, "$180, including your coatings".

I said, "Each lens?"

"No, both" she said.

I could have kissed her...but refrained. So my glasses would be less than $400. That was a surprise.

After that, I was in Safeway and went to line up in a line where the cashier had just shut off her light. Being accustomed to some attitude attached to "unlit" cashiers, I veered off that course and lined up behind one of the...multi item lines.

"Excuse me sir, I will help you here", the unlit cashier said. Was I Surprised...you betcha. I am not sure the God temporarily put saving the world on hold to rearrange the cashiers at Spruce Grove Safeway, but it was highly unusual.

Did I mention I made my sales goal for last month! Double Surprise! Ask me for the details.

Just took a look at the blog of a friend. He's part of the Wild at Heart Group at our church. It was fig leaf night last night (I'll never tell!!). His insight is great, and I think that there is likely a lot to learn there. I was saying to some of our small group members last night, that another surprise of this experiment is how many of our group have gone to be a part of the Wild at Heart group. Despite their aprehensions they are "bravely going where" few "men have gone before". I wanted to talk about all this mostly so I could put this picture in...not!

I was thinking, considering the picture, that fig leaves hide very little. We cover much more than we expose in our society. There is something almost naieve about Adams attempt to cover himself. Today we don't just hide, we layer! One thing we tend to overlook in self awareness type activities is that we are all on a different time line when it comes to shedding our layers. And while groups and studies may help us become aware of layers it is more likely we will shed them in the safety of our closest friendships and within our marriages as they grow in strenght. There is no agenda set by God for us to be completely exposed by our 50th Birthday. I had it explained to me another way. I was told our growth and self awareness is like the farmers field that is plowed every spring. And each spring the farmer has to remove the rocks that surface. There are some years that there are hardly any rocks turned up, other years have tons. One thing is for sure, there will always be some. And the Farmer accepts that. And the Farmer carefully removes them. I like that metaphor. "The kingdom of God is like..."