Blessings, affirmations, grace, and reflection

My weekend was a wash. It had been raining for days and my mind and body shut down and refused to function. I pretty much came home from work on Friday and that was all she wrote. I needed to get work done this weekend but my mind just wasn't focused enough to do it. So when Monday rolled around I decided to take a day off. I need to have these days to regroup sometimes.  I managed to get more done before noon than I have all week. I paid rent, mailed a form to my student loan lender, washed my clothes and bedding, cleaned the cat box, cleaned the oven (it is self-cleaning) flipped my mattress, followed up on getting licensed out of state, and handled a few random items. All before noon. Not to mention I am showered and dressed! Go me! I need to do some reading for work, plan out the rest of my week, and go through papers to find my referral for dental work. I will need to get extractions of my remaining wisdom teeth and a root canal on a tooth that a stupid dentist in New York t...

I was driving around today when I saw this mural on a wall in East Harlem. I got out of car to take a picture of it. A couple of blocks later I was pulled over and summoned for a defective brake light. I guess the blessing in this is that at least I wasn't driving at night when I could have been involved in an accident as a result of not having my brake light working. Thank you God for your watchful eye of protection.