Heat Wave by Jewels From The Word

My living room feels perfect at 75 degrees. 76 is too hot, and 74 is too cool. The position of the AC vent in the living room affects it, since that vent blows directly on my recliner. If the thermostat is set on 75, and I feel warm, I have a nice cool washcloth to wrap around my neck. If I feel too cool, I have a lightweight leopard-print throw to “throw” over my shoulders. 

When I was a kid, we didn’t have air conditioning at all. We had one small box fan that was set in the pathway between the front room into the kitchen. Sometimes we put it in an open window where it could suck the hot air out of the house. I remember putting my mouth up close to the fan and talking or singing into the fan. It amplified and modified my voice, making me sound crazy. It was easy to entertain us when we were kids. 

I don’t remember the weather being as hot as it is now during the summer, but I have a newspaper clipping of Mother’s showing that the temperature had reached over 100 degrees for over two weeks in 1958, when I was 9.

We kids just didn’t notice how hot it was, because we had things to do. Playing dolls, making cookies and biscuits out of mud, visiting the library and bringing home books which transported me from Vinita, Ok. temperature 105 to foggy England. 

Paul said, “I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” Philippians 4:11. NIV.

It’s a matter of our mindset. At age 9 in 1958, I was used to the heat and never gave it a second thought. Now after 50 years of working in the air conditioning, and living in an air conditioned home, I can’t stand the heat.

I wonder, what else have I gotten accustomed to? 

Lavon Hightower Lewis
Email me at llewis2138@sbcglobal.net
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