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Thank goodness, I feel so much better today, and my sadness and melancholies are gone. I’m smiling again. There is nothing like snuggling up for a few hours with a loved one who cares, and getting kind emails and a thoughtful badge when you’re feeling so blue. Thank you for the badge Nada, you’re so sweet. Perhaps part of what has been on my mind causing my sadness is, that ever since I quit my job a year ago to stay home, I have felt such a loss for not being with people on a daily basis. I’ve worked for the past thirty years around others, and now being home alone all day, I miss being with my close friends and co-workers and I get lonesome. I realize this because I am people person and love being around others, after a while the solitude and loneliness gets to me. I’ve had such a strong conviction in my heart that I should be doing something useful with my time, and I’ve made the decision to start back doing volunteer work again. I feel I need to be giving something back to my community in whatever capacity I can. I have arranged it with my former employer at the hospital I worked that I can put in the flexible hours that I want, in the two specific departments – the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and the elderly wing of the Cardiac Care Unit. I volunteered years ago at a Seniors Nursing home and thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the older patients and I’ve missed seeing the joy in their eyes when someone shows love to them. It makes my heart sing to be able to visit with those who want company, and to spend time talking and listening to them. Some of the elderly patients whose eyesight is failing enjoy having someone read to them, or some want to have their hand held, and for someone to try to understand their pains. It was the simplest things they always appreciated the most. Something as effortless as opening up the blinds, turning on or off a light, or simply adding more blankets on them can help make someone else day more comfortable. It’s incredible the trivial things we take for granted when we’re healthy. I am also going to volunteer in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as a Baby Cuddler. This is a position in the neonatal nursery rocking and massaging the preemies, as they need the skin-to-skin contact of a warm touch caressing their tiny, fragile bodies. Most of these babies are from mothers on drugs, or are critically ill, or for whatever reason the parents can’t be with them, and these infants need extra love, attention, and nurturing. Besides, God gave me a big heart with extra love to share, babies are a weakness with me, and I love to sit in a rocker and rock. Just ask Zachary. However, in order to do volunteer work, there is a lot of required red tape to get through which I feel for the safety of the babies and all patients should be done. I respect this, as if I were a parent of a newborn, I surely wouldn’t want just anyone rocking my infant. I would want to know it was someone carefully screened by the hospital, and was trustworthy and healthy. I’ve already had the immunizations and criminal background check done that’s required. Therefore, I’m ready. Personally, I believe I will be rewarded for this more than the patients will, and I have always been taught it is far better to give than to receive, and I hope I can give a little love and sunshine to others. By volunteering my time again, I hope to gain a better understanding about myself, and learn life lessons of a deeper sense of human compassion for others and less selfishness for me. |