It's hot!

It’s been hot…and muggy…for days now. Perhaps I should be viewing it as an opportunity to sweat out all the toxins in my body. I, however, have been retreating to the shelter of my air conditioning for the most part, and I feel almost as housebound as I do in the middle of winter. It is beginning to depress me. Am I lacking vitamin D in the middle of the summer? Yikes.

Now, am I really so spoiled? Oh boy, it would seem so. Oh my, the heat and the humidity and the hot flashes and all; getting me depressed? It seems ridiculous that I could be so easily distracted.

Fed up with the four walls around me, I decided to brave the outdoors this evening and sit out on the deck. I opened the patio door and left the cool air inside for the thick, humid air full of insect noises. The smallest of breezes, it must feel like this in the jungle. I sat at the table and opened my lap top to write.

After acclimating for the time it has taken me to write this, it doesn’t feel all that bad. The sun is down and it is actually a pretty evening.

Satan can use anything to get us complaining and focusing on ourselves. In my case lately I guess it is the heat. Hot days, hot flashes, oh I am tired of being hot. Waah, waah. I have become so focused on it, it is time for a perspective adjustment! I am fortunate enough to have an air conditioned home and vehicle for relief. But at times I think having these things only makes the heat seem more intense when going in and out. What would I do if I lived in the jungle? I am so amazed people can live in such a climate, often without electricity at all. Yikes. 

Do you suppose they complain and say,” Oh this heat is just depressing me!”? Do you suppose they stop functioning because it’s “ just too hot” to do anything today?

Like my husband says, “Time to Ranger up!”

Lord, please forgive me. I have spent days now being non-productive and I have had a complaining spirit because of a small amount of discomfort. Please help me snap out of it and change my perspective, keeping me focused on you. Help me to view the warmth as a gift, and even if it is difficult for me to tolerate, help me to look beyond it, laughing and loving, rather than moaning and grumbling.

I pack up and go back in the house,,,,brrrr...