Sunday November 24, 2024
Dear Diary,
Good morning God,
- Thank you for this day.
- Thank you for sunshine.
- Thank you for my sisters.
- Thank you for depression.
- Thank you for faith.
- Thank you for rocks.
- Thank you for the Bible.
I love you!
I wrote up at 6:30 am. I had slept through the night. I got up and made tea. The bread that had been rising overnight looked perfect. I punched it down and set it up for a second rise. If my blog was going to get written, I knew I needed to write it now before Angel woke up. I sat in bed and started writing. I finished my blog and posted it at around 8:30 am. Then I woke Angel up to get ready for church.
Angel wanted to take a bath and I told her she could take a quick one but she only had an hour to get ready. She took her time in the bath and got out 25 minutes before it was time to leave. I told her to hurry and get dressed and eat her breakfast. She still took her time again and was acting defiant. Finally, we left 5 minutes late. Thankfully when we arrived at church, Sunday school started 5 minutes late. So actually we were on time.
The Sunday school was great. It was about how we see God and how our perspective of God affects everything in our life. Something that I got out of the Sunday school lesson was: when someone comes to us with a burden, do not add to their burden by giving advice. Advice is a way of saying that they are doing something wrong and adds to their burden. Instead pray with them asking God to give them comfort and guidance. Church service was done by the youth and the young lady giving the sermon talked about loving God and loving each other. I went forward to be prayed over because I have been feeling really hopeless and depressed lately. I want my Texas life back. I’m not sure I am going to make it here in Idaho. I desire to have my own place but that looks impossible to me right now. I just feel really hopeless and depressed and I miss my friends in Texas.
When we got home, my sister, Angel and I all rode in her truck to my younger sisters house to get my motorhome. My younger sister was there working on her house. There was a young man that she had hired to help her sawing some wood out front. In order to get my motorhome out from where it was parked, we had to move a heavy trailer out of the way. The hitch on my sisters truck was too small for the trailer. I suggested all 4 of us try to push the trailer out of the way. It worked! I got my motorhome and followed my sister home. I parked it in back and now I can work on winterizing it. Then Angel and I can move into it. If there’s a spot still available at one of the local the RV parks when I’m finished, then we can move over there. The RV parks in Council are really inexpensive. It felt good having my motorhome here and knowing that having an affordable place to live was a possibility in the near future. Ideally it would be good to find an RV park in New Meadows that’s inexpensive. I’m even considering moving to Riggins. Riggins is at a lower elevation of 1,821 feet and runs right along the Salmon river. Riggins has a much longer growing season. Council’s elevation is at 2,927 feet, New Meadows is at 3,868 feet and McCall is at 5,013 feet. It’s interesting how different the elevations are within an hours drive. Then again, maybe I’ll just stay here in Council. I feel really restless right now. I am not resting in faith and now that I see that, I choose differently. I choose to stop thinking that I’m in charge and fully allow God guidance to lead me. Dear God, thank you for your guidance. Thank you for providing me with everything I need. I ask that you help me remember to rest fully in faith knowing that you have a plan for me and Angel. I know that you plan is much better than anything I could imagine for myself. Thank you for loving me. I love you. Victoria
When I came inside the house, I checked my bread. Its second rise had gone perfectly and it was ready to cook. I warmed up the oven and started the bread cooking. I made grilled cheese sandwiches for Angel and warmed up leftover carrot soup for myself. After the bread finished cooking, we packed up and drove to Zim’s hot springs pool.
On the drive we listened to a Diary of a Wimpy Kid audiobook. We stayed at Zim’s for hours. I stretched and floated on my back fully relaxing my body. There were a lot of people there and Angel played with the kids. At one point, we took a break from swimming. I was feeling floppy from soaking in the hot water for so long and needed to get out. We found a game of checkers in the lounge and I taught Angel how to play. I helped her out the first game. Angel picked up on the strategy of the game right away. She almost won the second game but it ended up being a tie. Angel went back to swimming and I wrote some of my blog for a while. I started to feel cold and got back in the pool and swam for the last half hour until the pool closed.
On the way home, Angel was hungry and we stopped for ice cream before leaving New Meadows. I drove home slowly through the canyon in case there were deer or elk on the move. When we were almost to Council, I saw something on the side of the road. I wasn’t sure what it was but I thought it was a cow so I turned around to see. Sure enough, it was a cow. I got out and chased it off into a field so it was far away from the highway. The night, earlier this year, that I witnessed the semi truck wreck and watched helplessly as the man driving burned to death, was all caused from him hitting a cow standing in the highway.
When I got home, my sister was still awake. We talked for a few minutes, then Angel and I got ready for bed. I read her a Magic Treehouse book and we had a half hour of reading to ourselves. I read Louis L’Amour and she read Sammy the Seal. After reading, Angel wanted to sleep with me, we turned off the light and fell asleep at around 10:30 pm.
Thank you for reading my blog and being a part of my life. I appreciate you.
Love, Victoria
P.S. this blog post was inspired by the Holy Spirit.