Hiya, folks.
Less high today. 🙃
😆
I mean, the day was fine, but I’m not on a high, and I’m in I’m… unsettled.
The morning was good… did some dailies. A goldfinch father landed on a sunflower just outside my open door and busily stuffed its face with a lovely sunflower meal, and then to my surprise, its offspring flew up, and they had a little exchange of food from beak to beak.
And I got it on video. 😊
So that was cool.
Headed over to the Springs to take a bath spending only a very little time working on my little soaking pool.
Despite thinking I was getting a head start and was actually going to be on time to church, once again, I was late. Gratefully, once again, I didn’t miss the sacrament. 🙏
I think part of where I started going south and how I was feeling was that I was distracted on my phone during sacrament meeting for most of sacrament meeting trying to find a spiritual experience that I had written down, or at least thought I had written down, but couldn’t find it for the life of me.
I should have just looked for it later and kept my focus on those who had taken their time and energy to prepare a message for me, but I kept trying to find what I was looking for, and after a fair amount of effort, yielding no results, I started getting a little annoyed because it should have been so easy to find because I remember exactly the day it happened, so I figured it would be easy to find in my journal… But nope.
Anyway, so I let myself get annoyed, and didn’t pay attention to the speakers much at all, and came away from sacrament meeting not only not uplifted, but feeling pretty cruddy, because I knew I hadn’t lived up to my own personal ideals.
Then in Sunday school, we had such a beautiful section of scripture to discuss, but we got focused in on something that for me, just felt superficial.
Or maybe not superficial, but with so much meat available to discuss, I was just a little baffled that we spent most of the time talking about something that just seemed… I don’t know, just felt like if a hundred was the opportunity available, our conversation clocked in maybe around 15.
I tried to bring something up that I thought might steer us more toward what for me would have been a meaningful spiritual discussion, but I guess what I mentioned just sounded so simple it wasn’t worth talking about.
It’s the second week in a row for Sunday School where what we partook of just felt so far below what was available to us.
But at the end of the discussion today, the others in the class seemed to feel like it was a great discussion, so clearly the person needing a perspective shift was I.
After church, we had a little branch potluck, and I spent some time chatting with a few peeps getting to know them better.
Good stuff.
After church I headed home for a bit, chatted with Hans a bit about concerns that maybe water is seeping, somehow, into the basement up through the slab?
After that, some T-mobile phone issues contributed to some concerns that sent me off doing some exploring around Hot Springs. I drove up Hot Brook Canyon, and then I drove up to Cold Brook Lake. Chatted for a bit with T-Mobile trying to figure out what was going on.
Headed back toward home, chatting with Hans a bit. Made a smoothie, chatted with Heather a while when she got home.
Heather pointed out a beautiful rainbow. 😊
Ate some dinner. Watched some uplifting videos. Chatted with one of my doctor nephews about my sister’s asthma/allergy/breathing struggles, and now here I am writing my journal entry for the night.
Gratitude to My Father:
- I’m grateful that, at least initially, when I saw that I got double demoted in one week (not sure how or why because… it’s JustAnswer, and they’re about as honest and transparent as…. well… I’ll leave it there.) I wasn’t super annoyed. I was more surprised than anything. I did start to let the irritation build up a fair bit later, but at least I was better to start.
- I’m grateful it’s Monday tomorrow, which means I can drive to Casper for Temple Tuesday. 😊
- I’m grateful for fruit and smoothies. So nice. 😁
- I’m grateful the sun is going down earlier, which gives my van a chance to cool down quicker.
- I’m grateful to have the second skylight installed, as it allows me to have my light on at night without attracting flies/moths/other bugs.
We. Celebrate. Successes!!! 🥳:
- Ummm… hmmm… 😅 Today doesn’t feel very successful..🙃
Reflections on Where I Can Improve:
- Give people my full attention.
- Time and a place.
- Work to not get frustrated by seeming injustice and the helplessness caused by an organization so dedicated to keeping how they actually operate and make decisions in a misty haze. I really dislike JustAnswer as a company. Had I the power, I’d have them straighten up, pay the money they owe both customer and expert alike for their deceitful practices, and watch them like a hawk, shutting them down completely if they continued their awful ways.
Thought of the Day:
😕
Hand of God In My Life Today:
Broken record, but I’m clean, and even the night thing hasn’t happened, which is a blessed miracle.
Let’s here it for a day more focused on the best, as opposed to getting distracted by good or better… or even bad things.
My love to you.
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 