Little boy tired. 😴
But I’ll squeeze something out for y’all. 😊
It’s funny, I went to bed last night thinking I was in position to perhaps get a mostly full night’s sleep. I think I was in bed by 9ish?
And then I woke up at like 4:10 or something and was just… awake. 🙃
So… maybe my body doesn’t need as much sleep as it used to? That would be–amazing. 😁
🤞
Maybe it’s just that I’m excited again? Excited about life. Excited to study and learn. Excited to apply and grow. 🥳
It’s nice to wake up in the morning and be excited to get up again. 😊
I have so much I’m hungry to learn and become.
From the moment my alarm went off (listening to a ringtone that’s I reading Alma 37:37), I was just… happy. 😊
I let the recording loop a couple times to practice the verse to see if I could do it all without making a mistake before shutting it off to chat with Captain Universe. 🙏
I’m really grateful for what I feel the Spirit has been teaching me about prayer. The understanding I’ve had about it’s purpose and even how one prays is so completely different than it used to be that I find myself as though I were a little child starting–almost over.
It’s really cool. 🙂
One of these days I’m gonna start sharing the details, but there’s so much I have yet to put together that… I’m just not ready yet.
And… somehow it feels a little odd to make these experiences public?
🤔
Anyway. After personal and couples study, I did my morning meditation and headed outside for my daily exercise.
After that, it was Family study with my mom, which generally parallels what we’ll be learning in Sunday School at church, ended up just being a great discussion about the things I was learning that I was super excited about–insights into prayer and blessings and trials and… It was so great. 🥰
I did some of my physical therapy right there in the Celestial room, so we could continue the conversation. 🙃
Such good stuff!
The rest of the day is a blur. I’m a little disappointed when I finish my morning routine because I love it so much. I just want to do it more!
I finished mowing the dangerous hill by the “pond” (it doesn’t hold water because the guy who dug it went too deep). To mow the south side, I have to lean so far over while I’m mowing that the lawnmower engine keeps shutting off. But I have to lean, or the mower, spinning blades and all, might just tip over, sending us both rolling down the hill. 😅
We’ve gotta figure something better out for taking care of that hill. 🙃
Had a little chat with my brother Jim who stopped off to chat while I was mowing the hill. We wandered around making plans for the future of the pond area. 😁
Though I likely won’t be here. 🙃
But hey, best to keep on like I’ll be here forever, right? And they’re family, so why not keep helping them make it look wonderful. It’ll be nice for everyone. 🙂
Started considering the idea of buying a house I saw for sale in Nauvoo, Illinois, just a couple blocks from the Nauvoo LDS temple and just down the street from Old Nauvoo. It’s in my price range.
Wondering if maybe I could set it up as a rental for tourists? Or just live there. 🙃
Nauvoo isn’t gonna be on the up-and-coming list of desirable places to move anytime soon, so the prices are small-town midwest prices (cheap), and that’s… attractive.
So many thoughts. So many ideas. Time to make some more choices. 😅
Got my dump trailer hooked up to my truck and both moved down to the lower pasture in preparation for my first attempt at Servicize in… a long time.
I guess I did some this morning, actually. Getting a 5-gallon bucket, filling it with rocks several times, and walking out over to the various potholes on the lower part of the main driveway. I did that during exercise time.
Tomorrow it’ll be tree cutting, chopping, and all that.
Hopefully. 🤞
Spent nearly two hours chatting with another one of my brothers in the evening as the sun was going down. We had a good chat.
I’m late for bed.
Oh! But it’s more important to express my gratitude than it is to get to bed on time! So!
I’m grateful, still, for all the fabulous insights that have been so meaningful for me so far as I’ve been pondering and studying a myriad of different topics.
I’m grateful that I was able to mow that hill without sustaining any injury, nor doing any significant damage to the mower. And I’m grateful that it looks nice now. 😁
I’m grateful that though I forgot to hook up the safety chains on my big dump trailer, I had everything else hooked up right, so nothing came off as I was dragging it from the upper pasture to the lower pasture. 😅
I’m grateful that though it was and has been quite painful to go through some of the experiences I had more than a decade ago when I was accused of doing things that I didn’t do and being things that I wasn’t, and having many people whom I dearly loved turn on me and think the worst of me, I’m grateful that I am now able to have those experiences to look back on and am able to empathize with others who are going through or who have gone through similar experiences.
I’ve been able to do that twice in the last few weeks.
I’m grateful that even though my tennis elbow is more sore today, I did some pretty good physical therapy on it today, and I’m still hopeful that it is improving a little bit. I’m nervous, but I’m hopeful. 🙂
I’m grateful for the technologies that allow me to turn my blue light filters so as not to risk eye damage nor mess with my circadian rhythm.
I’m grateful for my friend who reminded me yesterday… It’s funny, I had just barely earlier that day remembered about the blue light filter on my phone and had turned it on (I actually just leave it on all day). But I hadn’t remembered about my computer until being reminded by my friend, so I went into the computer settings and turned on the filter to run all day just like my phone.
Maybe that’ll help with my sleep, too! It’s definitely easier on the eyes.
I’m way late for bed. 🙃
Loves. 💙
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 