That Inner Voice

Do you ever have those "nudgings" that nibble at your awareness and tell you that maybe you should or shouldn't do something? I do--all the time--and, as time goes on, I am learning when to truly listen and when it's a fear or prejudice or whatever that is leaning me in one direction or another. I had something like that happen on Thursday night. I hadn't signed up for the quilt retreat that our guild has at Camp St. Christopher because I thought we would be gone all summer. Well, it hasn't turned out that way--for various health-related reasons. At the meeting on Thursday, Karen Kendo announced that there was a last minute opening. My first thought was, "Hum, maybe I should sign up. I would like to go." But something made me hold back and I didn't do it.
So . . .long about Friday afternoon, my husband had an A-Fib episode. He was in conversation with the doctor twice that evening and then the episode was over. However, the next morning his heart rate was twice its normal count and I ended up taking him to the hospital where he eventually had to be shocked back into normal rhythm and spent the night for observation. I brought him home this morning and he's very tired, but fine. If I had gone on the retreat he would have dealing with it by himself--probably even delaying calling the doctor and then driving himself into the emergency room (a man thing). So I KNOW that I listened to the right voice on Thursday night. This has happened too many times in my life to put it aside as mere chance. That still, quiet voice can be pretty loud at times.
And now for a lighter note, I am posting this picture of a car I saw this week at a repair shop. You might have to double-click on it to get the full effect but it looks like they repair cars at that shop with bandaids!