The Sweet Hand of Jesus...

Over the weekend my rental office gave residents notices that August 2-8 they would be closing down a portion of the parking lot requiring for every one that lived in certain buildings to park in the back of the building, across the street from the complex or near the pool. So I posted said notice up on my refrigerator as a reminder to me don't forget to put the car in the back when you get home to avoid problems Tuesday morning.


Lil Bit and I were rushing this morning so one can imagine how I felt when I went to leave my parking lot and they had closed the damn lot down. I look at the date on my phone jussssst to make sure I wasn't crazy, because sometimes my days tend to run together. Nope, nope nope August 1 it is. So I rolled down my window and asked the guy if they could please let me out? The guy looked to one of the maintenance men (real big dude), who was over seeing everything and the dude shrugged his shoulders and shook his head.


I'm sitting in the car like, errr??? Excuse me? While my 5 1/2 year old is in the back laughing hysterically because she thinks that allll this is so funny. So after waiting about 5 mins I finally got tired of being passive about the whole situation and I got out the damn car (yep all 5'3" and *mumbling* pounds of me). Lil Bit in the back screaming, "Mommy no! Mommy nooooooo!" she really thought I was going to clock dude. So, I rolled up to him and politely asked, "Could you please let me out?" he says, "We sent notices out" with hands folded and eyebrow raised I said, "The notices said starting August 2nd and by my calender today is August 1." so he was just like, "they said August 2?"...Yes sir they did.

Once it settled in that the people responsible for notifying residents were dumb asses his tone changed and all of the sudden my name was "Sweety". Anyway, he let me out. I wondered what should I do? Should I call the rental office and complain?? I figured I shouldn't because unless their response was, "i'm so sorry we continue to be dumb asses that don't give a spit about our residents and what can we do to rectify it?" nothing good would come of this. I figured I would leave it...called the doctor's office to speak to the nurse that forgot to call in a much needed prescription on Friday...was sent to her voice mail. I left a really nice message for her...no seriously I was nice, real nice. :-)

Come into work...late and I mean real late and this dude is holding up the elevator talking to some other dude. At this point I burst out into a fit of laughter. They both looked at me like I was crazy but after the weekend and morning I have had all I could do was laugh. I did not have the energy, desire nor anger to cuss any one out whether it was well deserving or not.

Only the sweet hand of Jesus can put me in such a state of peace to where I'm not feeling as though I wanted to choke someone out (like I wanted to do on Friday). Having a feeling a peace and being in a state of peace is priceless. I have a feeling I am about to go into a period where God is going to "force" me to grow even more as a person so the peace is what I need to maintain right now.


I'm going to actually get some work done. You all make is a wonderful day.