Short conversations – helenolenjin.life

Daily writing prompt

What details of your life could you pay more attention to?

I could pay more attention to human souls.

I was walking outdoors enjoying some fresh beachy sunshine today.

I was nursing fresh wounds from a private battle I faced yesterday.

I had just taken two rapid- panadol, I had drunk a large cappuccino from Zarraffa’s coffee and I finally had the strength to move my exhausted body.

I looked around and noticed the usual.

The houses. The cars. The street. The lawns. My back pack I was carrying.

Then as I looked, the view changed to heaven.

I saw no cars. Meaning, you thought of a place and you were there instantly. No travel needed.

I saw a skip bin outside someone’s house. I thought about the fact that there would be no rubbish removal in heaven.

I thought about my cacao almonds and choc chip crunchy peanut butter bar in my bag. I thought about the absence of food in heaven.

I saw the weeds in someone’s garden. I thought about heaven having the perfect length of grass.

I noticed the limestone walls in the neighbourhood. Even the black grubby marks.

In heaven, the walls would be perfectly clean.

The streets would be made of gold!

I think now about my sunglasses. The light in heaven is perfect there. How odd not to squint anymore!

I think about my tiredness and sore feet.

I think about the pink windcheater tied around my waist that says, “Good things are coming. Believe.”

I know that in heaven, I will never tie a sweater around my waist anymore! Only because the weather conditions will always be perfect.

I think about yesterday. It was a difficult day for me. I attended some medical training and felt weak, incompetent and traumatised.

In heaven, training may still occur, but in perfection where my old flaws won’t exist.

My memory will be perfect there. I will no longer support someone who needs special care. A Support Worker on earth, won’t exist in heaven.

Everyone will be fully healed. 😊

I think about my mobile phone.

I am using this right now….

In heaven, there will be no earthly economy, no flat batteries, no annoying SMS messages and no online YouTube sermons.

Faith will finally become sight.

I think about the nice lady that walked past me today as I was sitting under a tree, typing this. She had a sandy coloured poodle/spoodle? on a leash.

She asked if I was OK.

I was perfectly OK.

I was just typing this post under a tree so I wouldn’t forget my thoughts. Perhaps I looked a bit lost.

In heaven, no one will ever ask anyone if they are OK.

“Are you OK?” seems to indicate something is wrong.

Thank God, everyone in heaven will be Ok all the time!

I think about the three beautiful teenagers I just met after writing this post.

One of them stopped me and asked to use my mobile phone to call his mum. He didn’t have any remaining credit on his phone.

I didn’t know these boys. I told him I would call his mum for him. She picked up and we arranged to meet near the boat ramp. As the boys didn’t know the way there, I showed them where to go. As we walked, I chatted to the boys. The twin boys were 14, and in year eight. The younger one who was 13, was in year 7. They all belonged to the same family.

They didn’t like school. Just like my fourteen year old son. My heart went out to them. I related so well to what they were saying. My year 8 was horrendous. That year I was bullied badly 😢.

I bought them an ice cream each and we chatted.

The teenager years are hard! Imagine studying subjects you hate, having no money, being treated with a “herd-mentality” at school and feeling lonely.

We spoke about school, vaping and the dangers of addiction.

“Remember the three most important words”, I told them.

“What are they?”

One of the boys responded, “Do not vape!”

Nope. 😊

The three most important words are, “God help me.”

If you visit my Home Page you will read these words there. I always taught my kids that G.H.M. were the ultimate three!

One of the boys asked if I was a Christian. I told him I was.

Their mother came to pick them up and I went back to typing this post!

Back to what I was saying before about heaven….

In heaven, there will be no vaping! No one in heaven will be addicted to anything! Imagine your flesh never being harassed ever again.

Joyfully there won’t be any goodbyes in heaven.

I loved these boys already but I had to say farewell to them. I didn’t think I would see them again, considering the circumstances.

As I waved goodbye to the boys, I sat down by the boat ramp and continued blogging, for you.

Then, suddenly out of the blue, a lady walked past with two cute dogs on a leash. She had a short conversation with a woman standing near by. She left and continued on with her walk and the woman who remained, started chatting with me.

For a long time, we simply talked…two complete strangers, her and I! I found myself confessing my “secret fears” and the thought was, “I’ll probably never see her again, so it’s OK.”

We were both wearing sunglasses 🕶 so it felt easier to pour out my heart!

I found out she was a Christian. I was very encouraged God brought us together. It was odd to share such personal things and I saw the freedom in these “once off and never again conversations.”

It made me aware of opening up “more” to people I see regularly.