Country Vacation

 Happy Sabbath,

I'm in a different location this Sabbath and coming on here late. I've been spending time in worship and playing the organ for hours and just having a great time.  My son wanted to walk the grounds so I put on my layers before going out for a nature stroll.  I can't believe my family owns all of this land and we get to enjoy our time here. I'm enjoying my time here, even with the fire ants and relentless gnats and horse flies.  We got here on Wednesday night and spent most of Thursday outside trying to mow and trim up the property before having Walmart deliver groceries.  Someone tried to break into the trailer but did not succeed.  They damaged the lock which led to my dad having to break the lock off and then we were hit with a flat tire and dead battery for one of the riding lawn mowers.  He has another one in there but it was under too much stuff and that one needs to be fixed as well. We jumped the battery and filled up the tire and I spent time trimming hedges and using a push mower for the front.  I watched my father puzzled why he was going down an area that I believed used to belong to a former neighbor to realize that that was our property as well. The neighbor didn't want to drive down so far and got permission from my grandparents to cut a road through our land to get to his house.  It's so much to see.  I am enjoying some music from Casting Crowns and spent hours playing songs along with them, Sandi Patty and others.  I was able to watch my church service on zoom and it went well. I'm happy to hear that several people are being ordained in our church.  I wish I could be there.  A church sis thought I was home and would be coming to church so she suggested we take the children on a nature walk but since I'm going to miss two sabbaths, I decided to do that nature walk with my son today.  I will go back out around sunset.  I trimmed out an area along the clearing and wanted to set up chairs there.  There are two rotted trees still standing and I had pushed up against one and it almost fell.  There are so many baby magnolias and other plants that I want to dig up and take home (the zones are about the same so they would do well in my back yard).  

I'm going to get off of here but I'm glad that we came.  I am able to rest and not have an alarm clock on telling me to jump at at 4am or what ever o'clock.  I can check in on my house with my cameras and play music for my. plants back at home.  I need more plugs to control more outlets and lights (the other plugs I had started having problems and now I'm down to one that is reliable which I have set up for my living room light).  I leave on many other lights regardless of the lack of smart plugs.  

God is good. 

OH yeah, I forgot.  I had a dream.  Not sure who this was referring to.  In the dream, there was something about this person and I being in the school of social work together. We are both supposed to be kind and have compassion for others because of our profession but for some reason, this person had a history of mistreating me continuously as we studied together.  In the dream, we were in a church setting, the church that is the town next door over from my current home down and that person was being praised and celebrated but in reality, they were wicked.  I was cracking (not able to hold my silence) and coming out asking why they were acting this way; but they went to terrible lengths to hide who they were. Church members were around and hearing the commotion but not understanding what everything was being discussed.  This person and I were fighting.  It is like this girl I went to school with who was valedictorian. Someone who seemed so perfect and at the top of their class and kind but secretly they were not. In the dream I cannot identify who it is. It is someone who is held at high esteem. It is someone very smart but they are a wolf in sheep's clothing.  People are buying what she is selling. They want her book. They admire her so much and in her time off, she chooses to hurt people, not just me alone. She put down the disabled, the weak.  I don't know who this person is.  In the dream, I was at that neighboring church and things were being set up for service but things were not going right.  What ever was going on, it was messing with my focus to play piano for the service and I was not able to play right.  As I confronted the person in the dream, I was crying and telling people plainly who this person was and how they tried to tear me apart when we walked together in the same class.  I was crying when I woke up from the dream and my face was covered with tears.  

I turned to the verse of the day and it went as follows:

Matthew 25:31-32. When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory and before Him shall be gathered all nations and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd dividers His sheep from the goats."

Thinking about the dream I was trying to get the truth out. I wanted this person to change. I wanted the church to see the truth but I don't know if they really did because I woke up from the dream.  I will say I did delete a phone number from my phone this week as I was cleaning up things.  The number belonging to that person, I cannot say they tried to do evil against me, but I did not like how they spoke and treated others thinking I would side with them.  I wonder if the dream was about that person.  God knows what is in our hearts, what we do from day to day and the thoughts we have as we lie upon our beds.  He knows who are His.  He knows everything.  I don't want any distractions. I don't want people around to throw me off the path God has for me.  The enemy is trying from different angles and using people at my church, in my family and in other settings and I have to remain vigilant.  When you mess up, the devil throws it in your face.  I'm getting up and going to keep moving.  Wipe my face and keep moving.  I've come to far to give up now and the enemies of the Lord will not win. 

Praise be the Lord.