Short Circuit!

I need a new make-up mirror. The one I'm using is a Conair, two flourescent light, mirror. For weeks, when I've sat down to do the daily cover-up/make over, filling crevices and camoflaging 67 years of well earned wrinkles, the left mirror has flickered, gone out, come back on, flickered some more, gone out and come back on. It can be depended on no longer! With my vision in the stage it's in, you can imagine what the left side of my face looks like when I've completed the make-up job...shadows and lights!

Yes, the mirror can still be used, though it's not as effective as it once was. I don't know much about the workings of electrical things, but it seems as if there is an electrical short...points making connection and then all of a sudden, no contact. After all this time, if it were the bulb going bad, I think it would have already done it's "burn-out" job.

As I was applying my make-up this morning, waiting on the 'flicker back on' stage of the light, I began to think that this is much how my life has been lately. There's a short in my life. Is it a complete burn-out? No, I don't think so. But I have moments of flickering on and off. I'm inspired and then I'm not inspired. I'm motivated and then I'm not motivated. I'm interested and then I'm not interested. I'm compassionate and then I'm not compassionate. I'm decisive and then undecided.

I believe my problem is that I've become overly obsessed with things of the world over which I have no control. I watch too much news and read my share of blogs that discuss the pros and cons of what I've just seen on T.V. I go to bed at night thinking of all the 'news' I've heard and read about during the day....worry, worry, worry!

Well, shame on me!! Not ashamed that I am informed of the happenings of the world but that I've not put them in perspective. I want to be well informed yet I need to separate the 'wheat from the chaff' so to speak, turn loose and "let God...".

I pray that the light within me will stop flickering and that it will be one of which people can depend.