Oh! I just realized it’s 7-Eleven day! 🙃
Happy 7-Eleven day! 🥤
Not much to say about today, I don’t think.
But! When I woke up for good this morning, I woke up to lovely little news: I had reached out to Amazon last night (or the night before?) because the power station I just bought from Bluetti last month was now $200 less ($699) than what I paid for it ($899) for the Prime Day sale, and I asked if they would be willing to honor the current sale price, and I got a reply this morning with the message that they’d issued me a $212 refund!
Nice! 🥳
Despite my other frustrations with Bluetti, that’s great customer service. 🙏
Let’s see… did some morning dailies. Ate some breakfast. Spent a good chunk of time working on The Great Home Build Google Sheet septic section–getting as much as I could updated and ordered for operations.
Mucked out the barn a bit, chatted with Cory for a bit, talking about how I think I’ve got Martha syndrome (I’m running around doing good things everywhere, but I’m not doing the things that are best for me to be doing right now. I keep moving from one service project to the next but am not fulfilling the calling for which I came to this earth.
Want to get that straightened out soon.
It’s gonna be… hard.
In the meantime, I kept on doing good Martha things. 😅 I helped Hans with the septic line from the house to the tank for a while, but it was sort of a one-person job, so I went back to cleaning up the septic drainfield area.
Got rained out about 5 ish, listened to a great YouTube video on the Book of Abraham while I worked and then a little after.
Chatted with Hans about it and then started listening to another video he wanted to share before he headed into town to get something for Heather.
After he left, I mucked out the barn again–blasted Fiona keeps pooping all over the hay they’re eating.
😶
And her poops are so… messy.
Went up to the second floor to check on the status of the rain getting in the floorboards and was greeted with the comfortable blessing that it wasn’t really wet at all up there. 🎉
Gathered my stuff up from the trailer to Rover, not sure if I was going to drive to to Casper tonight or together with Heather and Hans tomorrow.
Drove to the park to take a bath, figuring I’d make my decision while there about leaving tonight alone or going together tomorrow.
Was blessed with the comfortable blessing of getting my outline done, decided to stay and go together, took a bath in the spring, and now I’m finishing up my journal, so I can get up on time for once and be ready for an early drive tomorrow.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful for the cooler weather today
- I’m grateful for the rain 😊
- I’m grateful for the Bluetti refund
- I’m grateful for the progress we made on the septic and other stuff today.
- I’m grateful for good food at the ready.
- I’m grateful to be getting back to my vegan ways. It’ll be a little bit of a step process, but I’m on my way back. 😊
Success:
- I gave my sincere and worthy effort today. 😊
- I’m getting better and better at looking at events and circumstances and situations and results and recognizing that I gave a worthy effort, so God is good with it, and then I look to see what I can learn and do better next time. It’s… great. 😊
Improvement:
- I’m still Martha-ing far too much. I did take time to be still (when I went to the springs), but I’m still letting myself feel pressure to accomplish, make progress, get this house done, etc. And if it weren’t this house, it would be helping my brother with his house. It’s always something. I think I feel like I’m wasting valuable time if I’m not actively helping someone in person?
Thought of the Day:
38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
~ Luke 10:38-42
Hand of God In My Life Today:
As I sat at the little pool area alone where the spring bubbles out of the ground at JH Keith Park, I felt guided in my preparation for my talk on Sunday. It came together super quickly. We’re heading to the temple tomorrow as part of a stake temple day, and I’d thought I’d go up separately, so as not to spend so much time in a car in one day with spine issues as they are, but I’d wondered if it would be better to ride up together. I had good reasons for both, and I finally took it to the Lord and said something to the effect of, if it would be better for me to ride with Heather and Hans, please have my talk preparation go smoothly, and boy did it. The concepts to talk about just flowed in, and the ordering of them and everything. It was almost like I didn’t even have to think.
Now, I’m open to having it all be changed later 😆, but it was pretty clear after only a handful of minutes, that I was going to have a solid talking points list written out and ordered in no time–and I did. 🥰
Double Temple Week. 🥰
Loves! 🤍
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 