I really don’t want to write another post right now. I’m tired and just want to go to bed, even though it’s not even 9:30 p.m., yet. But, got to do it sometime, right?
Woke up, Hans and Heather left for church earlier than we did because Heather is helping a little 5-year-old boy learn how to play the piano. 😊
So they left probably 30 or 40 minutes before we did.
After waking up, I went inside and ate some breakfast. I think it was just more mini wheats and mango chunks. Good stuff. One of the few things I can eat without my body freaking out. 🙃
I was still hungry, so I ate a couple of granola bars on the way to church.
Church was good. I felt a little awkward in Sunday school because somebody shared some “doctrine” that I felt like needed to be corrected so it didn’t perpetuate false understanding. It took me a little while, with my brain in a bit of a fog, to decide to go ahead and speak up about it, and it took me a little while to spit out everything that was on my mind. Not everything that I wanted to say came out, and it didn’t come out like I wanted to say it, but I did have one person mention to me after the lesson that they were grateful for my comment, so that was something, I guess. 🙂
After church, while my sister was getting set apart for her new responsibility, I went into the main sacrament meeting room and played the piano. I haven’t really played the piano much at all in the last… It’s been years, I think. But I sat and played some hymns, one of the medleys that I had written a long time ago.
I say written, but I’ve never written it down, and I don’t even remember exactly how it goes, so… yeah.
But it was really nice to play again. I had played just a little bit on Jared’s piano, which used to be our grandfather’s piano.
I was also reminded today of something that I used to focus on quite a bit that was really helpful for me and my spiritual growth. I had a saying that went something like this: I want to remove everything from my life that in any way reduces my ability to feel the fullness of the Spirit.
I’ve been thinking about that and I’m going to work on that list of things that I need to remove from my life, and I’m going to work on what I’m going to replace those things with. As I’m sure you’re all well aware, if you’re going to remove something, you’ve got to have something to replace it with, or else there’s a bit of a vacuum to deal with, and if you’re anything like me, having a vacuum with nothing to fill can be a dangerous thing.
Anyway, so after church, we went back to the property. I spent some time working on catching up on my journal posts, and then we headed out to visit one of the members of the branch. They bought a big chunk of land a few years back and have been living in a tiny home while they build their main home.
Foolishly, I had cracked my back in a way I hadn’t done in a long time, and pretty much immediately I started having back issues and knee pain. I guess if there’s anything good that came out of it, maybe it’s that having done so provides one more potentially correlative piece of evidence that my knee pain might actually be related to my back issues?
That would actually be really cool. It would be really nice that if I could get my back issues fixed, then maybe my hip, knee, and ankle joint issues might be fixed at the same time.
🤞
Speaking of issues, I don’t think anything that I’ve done has aggravated my tennis elbow injury, but it certainly is still a significant issue. I don’t know if it’s gotten better at all even though it’s been over 2 months since I had the injury, I think. Pretty nutty.
Old bodies don’t heal so quickly. 😆
As far as the poison cashew lips, mouth, and… nether regions 😅, The corners of my mouth have cracked and gotten a little crusty, I think, and the inside of my mouth feels like leather. Gratefully, there’s no itch on my lips or inside of my mouth. The only itch is… Down south. Fortunately, that’s not much of a bother except for right after I go to the bathroom. Then it itches somethin’ fierce.
😣
Moving on… 😅
This issue with my body giving me heartburn and chest pain issues and whatever at night if I eat anywhere near close to bed seems to have gotten worse. However, when I don’t eat after 4:00 p.m., then it seems to be much better.
Unfortunately, I didn’t really eat lunch, I don’t think, after church. Maybe a tiny tiny bit? I don’t remember, but I don’t think I ate anything at all, and by the time we got back from the branch members house, it was like six or seven, so for the last 2 days in a row, I think I’ve missed dinner? And today I missed lunch as well.
Not so good on the taking care of your body thing, but I’m not used to this yet, and I’d much rather go without a few meals than have really crappy nights sleep. I’m already such a crappy sleeper, I don’t need any additional help at being more crappy at it. 😆
I wrote another post to continue my efforts of catching up on my journal writing, and then I went in the trailer so we could celebrate hans’s birthday.
We did a little birthday dinner, and then some pie, although I didn’t need anything for the reasons already explained.
And that was my Sunday. 🙂
Lift the world.
~ stephen
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