God's Humor

God must be somewhat bored.  I think he is sitting up in heaven contemplating ways to push my buttons.  I think he finds it funny.  For example, my husband is away this week helping a friend move across country.  This situation was somewhat stressful for me after having just been gone myself for two weeks.  My autistic son's therapy caused quite a bit of anxiety for him and he is just starting to recover from the stress of it all.  Add on that the very restrictive diet that he, my other sons and myself have been put on, and I have been a picture of mental health this week.  So I decided to join my family at grandpa's house for memorial weekend for a little fun.  The weekend went great until the last day when my son started freaking out over food that he was not allowed to eat.  His stress level went through the roof and therefore so did mine.  I whisked my children away to return to our own home only to find that he was even more upset that we left grandma's house.  He began screaming when he recognised our exit.  Apparently, he had thought we were just going on a three hour joy ride.  The screaming continued for an hour.  The boy's bedtime was moved forward to 6:00pm that night, because by then I was done.  I had a bit of an emotional breakdown at this point and practically begged God to give me a break because I couldn't take any more.  This is where God's sense of humor kicked in.  He decided to prove me wrong.  At 9:30pm I stepped off the last step of my basement stairs to find myself wading in three inches of water.  The entire basement was completely covered.  My husband and had I talked about getting a swimming pool this summer, but the basement wasn't my first choice of location.