These past 2 weeks have felt like a month.  Mostly because I haven’t been able to sleep well at night.

For the past 2 weeks I mostly have been awake until 3:00am or maybe even 4:00am some nights, on the computer or reading in bed.  The heat and humidity has been doing terrible things to me.  My eczema doesn’t do well with these heat highs and humidity highs (and they don’t do well with temperature lows and humidity lows as well).  But I can’t just turn on another fan, I can’t shower more often (it’s not good for the skin to shower too much), and when I try to fall asleep, my body temperature just spikes and I’m lying there with no blankets, still sweating.

And then that sweat affects my skin too.

So my reactive resort was to just stay up late into the night until I was absolutely exhausted to the point when I could somehow fall asleep.

Things I have been doing while staying up late: watching Coldplay videos, reading the Coldplaying wiki, watching Pixar movies and watching the Director’s Commentaries (at one point, watching the Animator’s Commentaries), chatting with Mike (since he has been up because of other stresses), reading this book “Flickering Pixels” that I managed to get a copy of.

Today I got to my point of desperation when I couldn’t fall asleep last night, and then when I finally somehow dozed off, I was woken up by a landscaping company and their machines at 8:30 in the morning.  Having had no real sleep, I got up, sulked a bit, took a shower, looked up the pricing for air conditioners online, got discouraged at the prices, contacted someone on Craigslist, and then plopped back on my bed in exhaustion.  I managed to get 3 hours of sleep at that point.

Really I didn’t know what to do about it, seeing as an air conditioner just seemed a bit too out of reach in terms of cost.  I kind of threw a prayer at God, just telling him I was totally uncertain what to do.  I mean.. I didn’t know if I was going to have to fall asleep some miraculous way tonight.

(I also have considered just taking drowsy-style allergy medicine but that really isn’t a good plan, drugs are never the solution!)

And then..

Tonight at small group I was sharing about what I am going through, and Mark out of nowhere just says “hey uh I have an extra air conditioner.”

Turns out he had an extra one in his basement.  He was just like “yo, take it”.  The thing’s a monster but it’ll do the job.  I brought it back tonight and plugged it in before taking another shower, and hopefully by now it will have cooled my bedroom enough that I can be comfortable.

Praise God.  When Mark told me that, I was astounded.  I was speechless..  My desperate prayer… answered. Oh the joy.

Tags: air conditioner, prayer, summer

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