{"id":2028,"date":"2020-05-26T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2020-05-26T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:52:41","slug":"discombobulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"Discombobulated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Que le bon Dieu vous benit&#8221;<br> &#8220;May the good Lord bless you&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Discombobulated<br> Author: Pat Aman October 14, 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Well, all I can say is when I finish this devotion, you will think that I need to go to a doctor for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We were watching the end of a &#8220;Tammy&#8221; movie today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If you are our age or older, in which we will not go there, today please&#8230;.You will remember the movies, Tammy and the Doctor, Tammy and the Millionaire, Tammy and the Professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Tammy was a young lady raised on a river boat by her grandfather.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Tammy had no Schoolin as they called it, which is not correct grammar, but still we understand. But I soon found out Tammy was smarter than I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She said a word in the movie today that caught my attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She said, &#8220;Lordy, I am just discombobulated&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Why this caught my attention beats me.  Maybe I need to get out more. Joe just looked at me like, have you never heard the word discombobulated in Louisiana?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Anyway, I knew right off that Mr. Webster would not have the definition to this word, but I decided to look it up anyway.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I found discontinued, discontent, discomfort, huh, discomfort, and then suddenly there is was discombobulated. The Merriam-Webster had the word, meaning upset, confused, or etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Then a surprising thought came to my mind. I told Joe that I could see myself going to the doctor and upsetting his day with my discombobulated symptoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As we all know they come in reading your chart, not really listening to you. But they say, what seems to be your problem today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Well, Doc. I am discombobulated. He looks at me out of the corner of his eye, as he pulls his palm pilot medical dictionary out of this pocket and proceeds to look up discombobulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I am guessing that this word is one he does not hear often and is not in his medical palm pilot.  Maybe he is from Louisiana&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He says, &#8221; We need to run some test, or maybe see a specialist, or you can go home take two aspirins and call me in two days, if symptoms do not go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I am thinking Specialist, then I can use my novel word again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> So, he sends me to a specialist who looks at me funny when I tell him I am discombobulated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He checks me out and says, &#8220;I will send a report to your doctor in a few days. Until then go home and take two aspirins and call your local doctor is symptoms get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Anyway by now I realized that I could have saved a lot of time and money, if I had just stayed home and taken two aspirins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As we finished watching the movie, Tammy gives the definition for discombobulated.  She says, again, &#8221; I am just so discombobulated, just like a short dog in tall grass.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I laughed at myself, and said thank you Lord, for letting me catch the trivial things you send my way to make me laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> So, whatever you are discombobulated about, I hope this put a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Proverbs 17:22 says, &#8220;A merry heart does good, like medicine. But a broken spirit dries the bones.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> And yes, if you I think you are discombobulated, just like a short dog in tall grass. Just pick your Bible up and read some inspiring stories. Then get down on your knees and have a little talk with Jesus and He will make it right&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He will turn your discombobulating into joy, peace and hope&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy&#8230; Psalm 30:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book \u00a9 1996\/2020 \u201cCoffee With Pat Daily Devotionals\u201d and Westbow Press a division of Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Que le bon Dieu vous benit&#8221; &#8220;May the good Lord bless you&#8221; Discombobulated Author: Pat Aman October 14, 1996 Well, all I can say is when I finish this devotion, you will think that I need to go to a doctor for sure. We were watching the end of a &#8220;Tammy&#8221; movie today. 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