May 29, 2023 - Flip the Switch

     I have wired a number of houses over the years, including a house we built in Versailles, along with some Habitat for Humanity houses.  In a perfect world maybe the Lord would have let me be an electrician as part of being a bi-vocational pastor.
     When the electrical inspector came to inspect the house in Versailles, I knew he was more than tough.  Decades ago he had taken some of the fall from the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire and he left no stone unturned.
     When He finished the inspection he looked and me and said, “When a homeowner does his own wiring…”  And I thought, “Here it comes.  I am in a heap of trouble.”
     But he finished by saying, “When a homeowner does his own wiring and he knows what he is doing, it is obvious to me that he takes no shortcuts.   You have taken no shortcuts.”
     One of my pet peeves when it comes to wiring switches is that I like the switches to be somewhat close to the doorframe so that when you enter a room and want to turn on the light, the switches are easy to find.
     Whoever wired our house at Beaver didn’t take that approach.  At all.  When the wiring for the house was roughed in, most of the time the electrician put the box on the next stud over, which means that the switch is sometimes as much as 10-12 inches from the doorframe.  Not much I can do about it but live with it.
     In this battle over two cancers I have come to understand a great deal about switches, not so much the ones that turn on and off lights, but the one that is somewhere in my body.
     Fatigue has been very difficult.  The jury is still out for me to decide if I should fight the fatigue or give in to it.
     The strangest thing continues to happen.  I can’t explain it, but I know its reality.  I can have this extreme fatigue so that I can hardly get off the couch.   I thank God that most of the time it has come on Mondays, rather than Sundays.
     Naps or sleep don’t seem to have an effect on it.  Nothing I do does either.  It’s like there’s a switch that is flipped in my body and almost immediately I feel somewhat normal.   The fatigue is gone and I am able to function.
     It happened again last week.  Monday was a typical fatigue day.  So was Tuesday, which isn’t rare.  Added was Wednesday, which was unusual.  Then something happened Wednesday evening and the switch was flipped.
     I have to figure out what triggers this switch.  If I do, the benefits could be life-changing—in lots of ways!
     But for now, I will keep fighting the fatigue.  Your prayers help in the fight.