we were busy doing inventory on all of the construction supplies, when one of the staff members jessica got stung by a wasp. unbeknown to us, she is deathly allergic to anything that stings. like, for real deathly. and, she didn't have an epipen, which also was not good. but, if you knew jessica, she was trying to tell us she was perfectly fine, even though the last time she got stung she completely swelled up in about 20 minutes. so, we all went into crisis mode, a very controlled one, and all caravaned to the hospital, which was of course about 25 minutes away. but, we got there in time and she got treated!
it was a little bit crazy there for a second, i have to say. thinking about it, which is kind of scary, if we hadn't gone to the hospital and tried to treat it ourselves, she literally could have died. it's so crazy to think something so small could affect your life! but, off of a very sad note!
after that, we all finally got back and tried to continue with our inventory, and decided to have a little driving lesson with one of the old trucks. everything was good, until we broke down right as we got to the main road, of course. so, we were a little stuck for a while because none of us had phones or anything, of course. but, some very nice people pulled over and helped us, and went to their house to go get their truck, came back, and towed us all the way back to the lodge. and, they were about to leave for a family reunion, so it was even more nice of them to do that for us! it did get me thinking about how i don't think anyone in orlando would do that. it's sad to say that, but our lives are so caught up in the important things we have to do, like get to a family reunion for instance, that we forget the importance of everyone else.
which brings me to a final thing i wanted to share.
i've been reading the book searching for god knows what by donald miller, and the chapter i read yesterday really stood out to me. hopefully i will explain the premise right, but it's basically about the concept of a lifeboat. think of a scenario in which you are stuck on a lifeboat, and you have to choose one person to take off the lifeboat in order to survive. your mindset would automatically turn into how you can make yourself the best person in comparison to everyone else. and basically, that mindset is how a majority of our lives, whether we realize it or not; we live by comparison. we try to be the best as society would define the best, we try to be the most beautiful as society defines beauty, or success, or anything. we live by comparison instead of embracing the beautiful and amazing people God created us to be.
there was a particular passage i liked from this chapter, and i felt the words themselves would get the point across much better than i could:
"But what we really need is God. What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don't worry about death, about our hair thinning, about other drivers pulling in front of us on the road, about whether people are poor or rich, good-looking or ugly, about whether we feel lonely, or about whether or not we are wearing clothes. We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, and by that I mean the Creator."
just thought it was a little something we could all ponder on for a second.
& whether it was a trip to the hospital, being towed by complete strangers, or reading about the concept of a lifeboat, today definitely had it's ups and downs.
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