Week 3
Make bread every week.
Good. We didn’t use as much this week. I might be doing it tomorrow.
Floss my teeth daily.
This is hard and I don’t know why. Maybe I need to do it earlier.
Grow chilli peppers and trees.
Good I had a friend from church help my get my lemon and Japanese maple repotted.
Exercise at least every other day. Spend time out of my wheelchair.
I am not exercising like I think I should be. I did have the idea that I need to practice getting out of my chair and back in. That is the hardest part for me. If I get used to doing just that it would get easier. Then I might not be so scared about out of my chair.
Help Hildete study English, at least one hour every day. Help her learn enough English so she can get a job as she would like and so she can go to the nail salon by herself.
I really wanted to help the other day. She would not work with me the way she had before. What do you do. She has been walking around and saying phrases and words in English. Im glad to see/hear her trying stuff.
Work on money daily at least five minutes; budgeting, planning, or accounting, where did the money go, daily and make sure I am saving. Learn to be a good Jew, about money.
I would like to say I am great here. I do ok. I need to read/listen to more audio books. I have been listening to one. I personally think that money is extremely important and the Lord wants us to learn to be a blessing to others. We can contribute to organizations that help, and we should. But we need to learn to help the “widow” that has given all. In many ways me need to evaluate daily, weekly, monthly, how we can help. Maybe we can’t help at times. That’s ok.
Avoid Television as much as possible, listen to audio books, or spend time writing.
So I am spending time writing now. Audio books are wonderful. I just can’t seem to pull myself away from the TV. I started watching a program last night. I could tell I didn’t have any real interest in it. The TV was on to be on. I don’t understand that.
Learn poker. Several different games and help my wife and children learn it.
I’ve tried to play on my iPad. I have been lack luster this week.
Study gospel topics, Book of Mormon, General conference, Old Testament, New Testament, Doctrine & Covenants.
I have fallen off the horse the past few days. I did read a conference talk.
I went with my son to get my car inspected. We went and got the inspection done. For a minute I was not happy about my car. It is 11 years old and it’s not made anymore. The one man was beyond confused. Another man was more than willing to be helpful. But everything got inspected and oil changed and fluids topped off.
Then we went to the grocery store and I was able to pay for my registration. In and out. We decided to get my son his favorite juice. Still if we were there 10 minutes, that was a long time. If you don’t have an HEB as your grocery store, you are deprived. To say I love HEB would be an understatement. The world definitely needs more of them.
The other thing, my step son had to get a 3D X-ray. Apparently that is a thing now. We spent more time finding the office than having the X-rays taken. My wife and I were filling out the paperwork. They ask if he would like to go. He went and was done before we had finished filling out the paperwork. then we paid and headed out. I called my son who drove. He was amazed we were done. That was an amazing day. Things getting done so fast.
I was watching a movie about Pompeii. I got me thinking about life generally.
Life is an experience. No real fair or unfair. Good and bad, yes. I say that because I believe that this life is just a small part of a greater whole.
We don’t have to understand everything.
Tsunami. Just an experience
Hurricane. Just an experience.
Volcano. Just an experience.
Lots of our experiences are less than fun.
This week I had a wonderful experience with lots of things going better than I wanted. I have had plenty of experiences that were not what I wanted. For example, going to the Social Security office. Not fun.
In an instant our experience could be cut short. Not specifically good or bad. Just reality.
Pompeii happened. People where going about there lives; buying bread, or fruit. Selling bread or fruit. Going about there lives. Then everything changed. Not because any one person or group of people did anything. The mountain/volcano erupted. Life happens. It doesn’t stop.
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