Alohar! 😊
Not really all that much to say about today. I would say it was more of a comfortable blessing day?
So I just realized that when gratitude is at the forefront of my mind, even uncomfortable blessing days are actually more like comfortable blessing days because I’m grateful for everything, so it all just feels… like a blessing. 🙃
Anyway, I slept in a bit, getting up for good somewhere around 7:00ish. I still have yet to actually reach my goal of getting up at 5:00, but maybe tomorrow?
🤞
We’ll see.
Got a bunch of dailies done. Spent a good little while texting somebody who was having a hard time, encouraging them and whatnot. Gratefully, by the end of the morning and for the rest of the day, positivity seemed to reign. 😊
Texted a gazillion other people to just kind of check in and see how people were doing, wanting to keep up relationships a bit.
Did some horse chores around the property here. Let Zora out to hang out with me for a bit while I worked outside. The heat was pretty gnarly, though.
Spent I think pretty much all afternoon and early evening working outside on the septic drain fields. Long, hard work, but it’s good exercise. 🙃
Hans came home completely wiped out from his hot day at work and basically crashed for the rest of the night, pretty much.
Hung out with Heather for most of the rest of the night chatting and eating and whatnot. She made another smoothie for us.
Yum. 😋
Chatted with the neighbor for a little bit. She just got starlink, and she had some questions about it, so I’m probably going to go over there this weekend and help her get it all set up.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful that despite the fact that it was somewhere around 100° today, the wind started blowing in the afternoon, which made the heat a lot more bearable.
- I’m grateful that it’s dry heat. Oh my goodness. I spent hours and hours out there working in the heat, and my shirt was completely dry when I came in. I think I drink over a gallon of water today, not to mention the other liquids I took in with smoothies and breakfast cereal and protein drinks and whatnot. Probably around 2 gallons worth of liquid today, sweat a whole crap ton, clearly, but you’d never know it because my shirt never got wet. I love dry heat. 🙃
- I’m grateful that today I made what felt like actual meaningful progress on the drain field. I’ve been working and working and working, but it hasn’t really felt like I’ve been making much of any progress, but today, getting some grass uncovered, it felt like I was making some meaningful progress. 🙏
- I’m grateful for the opportunity to lift spirits. I think it’s pretty common that I feel like I should be doing more, that I’m capable of helping lots and lots of people all the same time with bigger roles, so to speak, but really, I think some of the biggest differences I could ever make actually happen one on one.
- I’m grateful to have been able to choose gratitude today. I had multiple opportunities where I could have easily complained, and “reasonably so,” but I didn’t. 😊
- I’m grateful that I was able to go through the day without being in a hurry. I want so much to get things done for my sister and brother-in-law, but I’ve got to make sure I’ve got balance in my own life, getting done the things that need to get done, and leaving myself space to be still and meditate and ponder and whatnot.
- I’m grateful that after I accidentally bent my driver’s door toward the front of the car by accidentally catching it on a dirt pile as I was backing up, that it didn’t take a whole lot of effort to widen the gap between the fender and the door again in order to make it so the door could open without making an awful noise. 🎉
- I’m grateful that I was in such a space that I didn’t even really bat an eyelash when I accidentally bent the door. It just was what it was, and I was giving a worthy effort, and it’s going to be fine–whatever happens from here.
- I’m grateful the van isn’t as hot as it has been on other days, even though it was about 100° today.
- I know I’ve mentioned multiple times that I’m grateful for my little fan, but I’m grateful for my little fan that’s blowing on me as I dictate this, and I’m grateful for the power station that supplies its power and for the solar panels that keep my power station nearly constantly fully charged.
- I’m grateful I had almost zero fly issues today. Though it was the worst day I’ve seen, by far, for flies on the property, driving the horses a bit crazy, there were only like two flies in the van when I finally closed the doors to go to bed. I think having that huge heavy-duty trash bag enveloping Little John must be helping a fair bit. 🥳
- I’m grateful that despite being pretty sore from my mega workout yesterday, I was still able to do everything that I wanted to do today.
Success:
- I gave my sincere worthy effort today, and when things seem to go sideways, I remember that I gave a Worthy effort, so God’s okay with what happened, and the only question is, “is there something that I should do differently next time?”
- When I had a customer who was a super duper high maintenance customer who probably knew less about cars than anyone I’ve ever talked to, when I found myself getting impatient, I managed, eventually, to at least relatively significantly reduced my level of impatience. Very far from where I want to be, but definitely much better than what I have been. 🥳
Improvement:
- I didn’t have a really good conversation with Heavenly Father this morning. I wanted to, and was excited for the opportunity, but then I kept doing other things and other things and then eventually totally forgot about it.
Thought of the Day:
I am in competition with no one.
I have no desire to play the
game of being better than anyone.
I am simply trying to be better than
the person I was yesterday.
~ Unknown
Hand of God In My Life Today:
Hmmm… For these, I’m trying to find things that are clear evidences to me of God and not just nice things that could be easily explained in another way? And I’m not thinking of anything right off the bat today, which, I probably should be able to think of something, but at the moment, nope. 🙃 Sorry, Big Guy! 😅
Good night, my lovelies. 🥰
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 