Spring Fresh Start

 Happy Sabbath,

Making this quick because I have to prepare for my afternoon nap before I go to work to night and my computer is malfunctioning again.

God is good. 

I was able to help out not just with the main church service on zoom but in a rare move I decided to go with my son to attend some baptisms in support of two people we know and am glad that we went. There was a organist/pianist there finishing up for the communion service and I thought he would stay to play for the baptismal service but he had to go. I was able to step in and play for that and am thankful for another opportunity to use my gift. My son also got up close to see the process of baptism along with my sis' daughter and it was just a good time. I do wish more people came out. Some I'm sure we're online but makes such a big difference when people are there in person to support.

I am thankful I was able to have my tree chopped down on Wednesday.  It was a pine tree about 100 ft tall and every time it rained or stormed I had such anxiety that more limbs would fall off and damage my property or worse,  the tree fall on my house. I need not worry about that any more. I had them dump the wood chips in my driveway and spent several hours shuttling chips to the backyard in my wheel barrow to do some landscaping I've long wanted to do. Now I can do a great deal and for only of the cost of me getting a little cardio and weight lifting workout.   I may be able to finish getting it all dispersed in another 3-4 days. I do wish I realized they were taking away the large sections of trunk and thought out a better plan to keep them. They could service as outdoor seating, tables and it's good quality wood. I'm sure they are making profit off of trading them to a business like lowes or other lumbershop.  I put burlap around my peach trees and the tallest one has beautiful pink flowers on it. I intend to wheel chips for the bottom of the hill. So far I did almost one whole side of my yard by the fence line about 6 feet wide all the way down to my son's fence line for his garden. I put some down in his and will bring more God willing tomorrow.  I have alot of work to do on my property and look forward to getting into it.

I am thankful and blessed and have no complaints. 

God is good. 

Managing Time

 Good afternoon and Happy Sabbath.

I need to work on keeping things brief when I say it.  I have a hard time managing my time these days but God is good as always and has helped me to meet deadlines and handle business in His timing and I am thankful for that.  I had a productive week. I took off work yesterday because I was feeling overwhelmed and didn't know how I would schedule or who I would be able to get a hold of to put on my calendar last minute so I decided to take some PTO.  I thought I would do some door dashing and do something about my hair but when  you don't really take time to plan, other things jump in and take over.  I ended up spending most of my day and afternoon outside.  It started out with me raking up old leaves and debris from my front triangle garden and after a failed attempt of wrapping something I planned to trash in the back yard, I found myself with my post digger and shovel digging holes at the bottom of my hill to put trees in.  I dug five holes and brought out the machete, hatchet and hammer to tackle the tougher spots particularly 2-3.5 inch diameter roots that felt like rocks ever time I plunged the shovel into the ground.  I was back and forth over to my parents house and what was supposed to me dropping off the post digger I then found myself digging up peach trees and yucca to bring to my house.  I planted four trees in total, three were 1-2 years old and one had flower buds about 8-9 ft tall.  I will go back and get a plum tree and some other things but what I'd like is a white cherry tree and I will talk to my parents about what volunteer plants they have popping up around their yard.  The plum grows wide and awkwardly so I will have to think carefully about where I will place it.  To think I was going to plant a row of peaches at the top of the hill.  I'm glad I didn't do that.  It wouldn't make any sense.  

I ordered my supplies for my notary business and am going to have my pine tree cut down in the back yard next week.  I am looking forward to that so I can build my green house right afterward.  I have alot of yard work to do.  I am thinking about doing my first mow tomorrow, getting some cinder blocks to secure the gazebo frame in the back so I can make use of the sand bags and mulch that are supposedly holding it in place but look terrible.  I also need to door dash and get back on my grind with saving for my rental investment property.  Many other things I'm not mentioning here but these are just some of the things I have been up to and I am thankful for the Lord holding it all together.  

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.  The enemy has been trying to send people into my space to bring me down and speak negatively towards me.  I am working on shutting all of that down.  We have the option to accept that type of energy or to keep it moving and not allow it to discourage us.  I encourage you to remember what the Lord has purposed for you and keep following Him.  People are going to say what they want to say and have their opinions about you but you have the power and choice to allow what they might try to direct toward you into your heart and to thwart your plans for success.  Only one voice matters and that's the Lord's.  

Happy Sabbath :)

In Twos

 Happy Sabbath

I am confused about some things that happened this week but I am going to praise the Lord regardless.  

First, I want to say this happened on Monday.  I headed to work Monday night and before I left my home, my son accidentally broke a glass and that threw me off my routine so much so that I forgot my cell phone at home.  I made it all the way to work and knew I couldn't do my work without it.  Now I could have waited till I had my longer break but I didn't want to do that so I opted to try traveling a period that is on average 15-20 minutes to get to work and shove that into my 15 minute break.  I made it there and back within 20 minutes or so, but I ended up getting locked out of the building.  I was outside for an extra 20 minutes before I could get the attention of someone and they let me in so I could continue my work.  My dad told me never to do that again and I could have asked for someone to let me call them so they could get my phone (they have a key to my house) and drop it off for me.  

After work ended that morning, I headed to my parent's house to help get my son on his way for school but when I approached their front door, low and behold, the door was locked.  They never lock the screen door. I had to ring the door bell and once again twice in less than 8 hours I was locked out of a building.  I don't know what that was all about but lets go on to the second story.

Tuesday morning after all the weird stuff went on, I received a call from a tree company.  The week before, I had put my information out there on a site because I wanted to get a quote to remove this pine tree in my back yard.  The tree is about 100 ft tall and has lost branches over the few years I've lived here, destroying my first gazebo while I was a short distance away mowing the lawn and causing other damage.  I received the call and agreed to have the owner come out that day to give me a quote.  He came out and looked at my tree and normally I would tell others and myself to get a few quotes but I felt the price he offered was fair and I bargained my way down to $500 less from his initial price.  That day I only told my son that we were going to get rid of the tree.  

Here comes Wednesday into Thursday.  I went to work Wednesday night and early in the morning on Thursday at my part time job, I decided to get on a new platform and post some photos of a tree that my parents have in their front yard. The wood twists about and there is a bird house that looks so beautiful surrounded by english ivy. I decided after reading my verse for the day at midnight to post the photos on the platform and went about my business.  Thursday late morning came and I had expected to have a meeting with a client I was covering for but they were a no call no show so since I had no back up plan and was tired, I decided to take off for the rest of the day and head over to my parent's house earlier to see if my dad could help me figure out what the weird smell was that was coming from underneath the hood of my car.  It was probably because I was speeding on Tuesday morning to get my phone and had accidentally put my car in low gear for a few seconds during the racing that set that off. 

I head over to my parents home and my dad draws my attention to the tree in the front yard that I had taken photos of.  The tree fell down.  It was dead and the tree toppled over in such a way it was hard to notice.  He had taken time that morning to also bring the chain saw out and chop away at a stump on the other side of the yard.  I had not told them that I had planned on cutting down my tree and here I'm at their house and they are cutting stumps and taking off the beautiful entwined branches of the fallen tree.  It was then that I opened up about my plan to remove my tree.

The tree fell down sometime the night of Wednesday with strong winds that I was oblivious to.  It was thursday morning shortly after midnight I posted a photo of that tree on that platform I'm using to promote one of my sites.  

I don't know what all of that means.  I also went to the municipal services building to request a permit and didn't want to run into the racist lady who gave me so much trouble before but of course I did.  I decided when returning to my car to call the office manager of the tree company and requested they deal with her so that I would just have to go in and all I would need to do is pay for the permit and they can start the work.  I'm waiting for that call.  

I don't know why I was locked out twice. I don't know why my secret talk of chopping down a tree and posting a photo online came within hours of the tree I photographed falling down.  I took out my machete and took some of the branches and they will be used for decor in my home or perhaps in the planters on my front porch.  One is like the staff that belonged to Moses, it looks so cool and perfectly twirled about.  Alot of weird things I am not mentioning here but God knows. God is good and I am not going to worry about it.  If it is His will that it be done, it will be and I will try my best not to get in the way.  

So yeah, thats what happened this week.  I had a good week but strange stuff like this occurred and I can't make sense of it.  To God be the glory regardless.

Happy Sabbath :)

Still Small Voice

 On here for a moment.  God is good. Happy Sabbath to you.

I had a good week even though things did not go exactly as I had wanted or planned for them to go.

Sunday I intended to Door dash but the app presented an option to me and I essentially was tricked into dropping a set schedule and getting nothing in return.  I went over to drop off a gift that my son was to give to a friend's daughter from church.  He wanted to buy a candy gram and give her one but then when I brought it up publicly, turned out he ate her candy gram thinking he was not going to give it to her. I had to scramble and help him find a replacement gift.  We went over to drop it off and ended up being there for over 3 hours.  

While we were there, my son was disobedient and hurt himself running through the house.  I thought he was fine the rest of the day but of course the next morning he was not able to walk so that resulted in having ER visit and having to cancel not only most of my work day for my job but my Door dash hours I had scheduled as well.  

Prior to him waking up and having his issues walking around, I was working at 4:30am as I often do and I was thinking on my clients and which ones I needed to do work for.  This has happened before and I cannot say it came from me.  I heard a small voice or rather a single name.  That name was the name of one of my clients.  I sat there and immediately thought to myself, I didn't meet with that person this month.  Monday was the last day of the month of February and I wondered at how I could schedule something last minute but saw that her schedule would not allow and it would be very rude calling so early in the morning and last minute at that.  I decided to first check if I did in fact forget her and sure enough, I did.  I sent an email to a person who assists with that case to schedule for March 1st instead.  

There have been times where I am doing so much and I will hear or a name will come to mind.  I guess I can say it was the same in this case.  There is no reason why I should think on or hear that name on my own.  I have way too much going on but a single name or situation or item will pop up and it is in those times I have a final moment to make a decision on securing that situation or letting it go.  I want to thank the Holy Spirit for that.  I believe it was Him to helped me to remember her name and other situations like this.  

I am thankful that my son did not have any fractures or broken bones.  He had to go for two rounds of xrays and no issues turned up.  Wednesday I sent him to school and thought things would be fine.  He decided to run and trip at school which resulted in me having to yet again, cancel a portion of my Door dash schedule and go collect him.  Friday I did dash for a little bit but lost motivation and cancelled on my own earlier in the day.  

I am hoping to dash tomorrow and get back into a good rhythm.  There is supposed to be a church meeting now so I will see about that, but God is good. Make sure you take time to listen for the voice of God and if you are unsure, pray that you know His voice.