Long Days

It’s been almost 2 years since I could get in and out of bed by myself. The last year and a half I’ve tried to spend 11 to 12 hours in my chair. This means 12 to 13 hours in bed. When I started this blog I decided to be transparent and is honest I could. There many posts that I wouldn’t put on Facebook, this is one of those.

I’m now finding the 11 to 12 hours in my chair to be very long days some days. Some days it’s the right amount of time. Other days I’m looking forward to going to bed as early as 3 o’clock. Usually I run out of steam around 7 to 8:00 PM. I usually go to bed around 9 PM so that’s not that hard. Long days are when I’m out of steam around 3 o’clock or even 6 PM. I want to hold out till 9 PM or so to keep my time in bed around 12 to 13 hours. This seems like a great division of time but makes for some very long days.

I have been reading in Thessalonians and today this 1^st it out to me:

“But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”
2 Thessalonians 3:13 KJV

I find I get very weary because of my disease. I suppose I get weary in well doing also but it seems more like disease-related. I remember a saying people had a number of places I worked. It was “no good deed goes unpunished”. I found, especially the last place I worked, how true this was. If you get anything good than a whole bunch of people had “good ideas” to either go along with what I did or ideas to get them out of work and leave me with more! I think it is easy to get weary especially in well doing. There seems to be an immediate response when bad is done. Normally there is no outward show of appreciation for good deeds. We need to remember Paul’s words to be not weary.