I-YOUniverse

Checked 90 minutes in heaven out of the  library. Our local branch has a nifty drive through window. You don’t even get out of your car. How cool is that?

I got out of the house for a few minutes today. It’s pretty rare for me to venture forth.

Beautiful fall day. Traffic in  beautiful downtown Short Pump was horrendous. When we moved here, the area was rural beginning to transition to urban. Now it’s 6-8 lanes of cars. Shopping everywhere.

Why were we there? I hassled La-z-boy into exchanging my lift chair, which had jammed twice, stranding me, in my seven months’ ownership. My first efforts were rebuffed. Then, I contacted BBB, and suddenly things changed. A nice guy from corporate called, and offered me the chance to “re-select” a chair.

George Orwell would love the language. “Exchange” suggests a defect. “Re-select” suggests the customer merely changed their mind.

Anyway, the store manager graciously acknowledged problems with the model I had and offered us the new and improved version with a 10% discount. So it seemed fair to me. We shelled out a few more bucks. They’ll deliver the new chair, and “un-deliver” the existing chair on Monday, in time for the holidays.

I felt good about that.

Then, there’s the return of a book to amazon. You print out labels with  bar codes. But my printer hung at the last step.

After several hours of prayer and fiddling, it worked. Don’t ask me why.

I don’t know what all this means. The season of “many happy returns” has started early.

Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to reading 90 minutes in heaven. The jacket says the author has endured years of painful and only partial recovery. That in itself gives the book an authentic ring.

The story may be anecdotal, as opposed to some sort of objective verifiable fact. Nevertheless, it’s a good enough story that, in and of itself, constitutes a little bit of heaven here on earth.

What the high church guys call a sacrament.

The return I’m most looking forward to? The return of this corpus of mine. I claim, in literal fact, Philippians 3.20-21:

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.

Phil 3:20-21 (NRSV)

I just hope I can find my receipt.