Ok, I just realized that this should really be a video instead of a picture...you need to be able to HEAR the wonderful sound of these windchimes!!I LOVE windchimes...that would be the subtitle to this post = ) I especially liked my windchimes that were similar to these...they looked different but sound exactly the same.
I have windchimes hanging everywhere...on hooks on the pergola over the garden, on the bottom of the hanging baskets of flowers, on the front porch and even one on the frame of a front window. (That one's yours, Mom H...the handpainted triangle one that sounds like a cow bell!)
These special ones...well, not the ones in the picture but the ones that were similar to the ones above...were hanging on the bottom of one of the hanging baskets we had out front. We had 4 baskets...2 each on "shepherd's hooks" stuck in the ground.
And someone came and stole all 4 baskets. Our neighbor saw the guy creeping around, was too scared to confront him but went back inside to get her husband and by the time they got back outside, the guy had taken the baskets and driven off in the dark.
I was bummed about losing the baskets but when I remembered that the windchimes were hooked to the bottom of one of the baskets, I was SOOOOO bummed!!
The windchimes had come from my sister and nephews...they'd gotten them in Corpus Christi so it wasn't like I could just go to Wal-mart and replace them = ( I really missed hearing that particular tinkling and was reminded every day that they were gone forever.
So...I've been super sick for the past several weeks. I'm getting better but I'm still not totally over it. I'd been coughing badly and had just been to the doctor that morning and told I had bronchitis and a sinus infection.
It was a little hard to breathe anyhow but when a coughing attack would come on me, my airway started closing and I could barely get a breath in. I'd already had one attack that morning so when another one hit me in the evening, I knew how serious it was.
I tried to calm down, stop coughing and just try to breathe but it was a bad one. I had the phone in my hand to quickly dial 911 if I felt like I was passing out. I managed to get some air inside of me and breathe a bit better so I called my sister instead.
Jan's a pediatric nurse and has access to lots of different "things". I was mostly calling to see if there was anything I could do at home to keep on breathing or to find out why this was happening. She said it's called "reactive airway"...my airway was already irritated and the hard coughing just pushed it over the edge.
She came over and brought a nebulizer and albuterol and I did a breathing treatment...that helped alot! I did think there was a chance that I would die during the night...I said good-bye to Petey before I went to bed knowing that it could be the last time I talked to him = (
Ok, so all of that is really neither here or there except to say this...even with how horrible I was feeling and how scared I was of not being able to breathe, the thing that made me the happiest was NOT the breathing treatment but the replacement windchimes that Jan brought too!!!
She'd bought extra ones to give as gifts and when she heard that mine had been stolen, she gave me another set...which are now hanging on the BACK porch and will be guarded carefully!
So my title of "I love perspective" is that I love my windchimes even more because I thought they were lost forever and now I have them again.
And I don't think I would've had quite the emotional reaction to getting a replacement set if I wasn't at that moment, literally, thanking God for every breath that He was granting to me! Another breath to keep on living and enjoying the little (and not so little!) things that all add up to make my life FULL OF JOY!!!!!
p.s. I actually like the look of these windchimes better than the first set...they had a hummingbird but these have seagulls and lighthouses...way cool beans!!!
