Working my way through an Amazon return. What a nightmare. Chinese companies on there apparently don’t like bad reviews… then, they shouldn’t send inferior products under other names is my response. Their thick wool winter sock description should have read… “thin as gossamer synthetic fiber with 1 wool strand guaranteed to make your feet smell”. Live and learn.
I love the fall season as well. Shorter days and being home evenings with family. The Fallow (winter Dec 21-Mar 19) season is almost on us. This is nature’s time to rest, slow down, and repair. We humans should do the same. Make this time all about replenishing.
Today should be another easy day. Have 4 must does, and one work on a little.
Day 4 of Week 4=354 hrs of intermittent fasting. What is different? My clothes are looser. I’ve lost a few pounds. I sleep longer amidst the nightly wake ups. I dream a lot… strange, funny ones. I seldom feel hungry. My water intake isn’t enough but is better than it was. Joint pain has lessened somewhat. Any discomfort is being offered up for those in Purgatory, especially those who languish there because there is no one who is praying for them.
Bible Study Class tonight. We will learn/discuss “the golden calf.” I find this class enlightening.
Just learned PCCW has started having meetings again. They are on the 3rd Tues of the month in the church hall. I’ll be putting that back on my calendar. No Nov meeting, but a Dec Christmas Potluck is in the works.
I have a slow day today. I am grateful for it. Library is in the works.
Please add MM to your prayer list for mental health issues.
Standard Time has returned…PTL! Perhaps now life will return to nature. There is nothing new in my thoughts regarding daylight saving time… I still believe it is man’s desire to control everything he touches. While trying to convince others, he is doing this for them.
Mother Nature has one controller… God.
Yesterday’s play at Monticello High was good. Next week, we do Maquoketa Valley’s.
Thanksgiving is in less than 20 days. Have you pondered the blessings of this past year? Perhaps today is a good time to do that.
Betrayal… is the sense of being harmed by the intentional actions or omissions of a trusted person. The most common forms of betrayal are harmful disclosures of confidential information, disloyalty, infidelity, and dishonesty. They can be traumatic and cause considerable distress. The effects of betrayal include shock, loss and grief, morbid pre-occupation, damaged self-esteem, self-doubting, and anger. Not infrequently, they produce life-altering changes. The effects of a catastrophic betrayal are most relevant for anxiety disorders, and OC D and PTSD in particular. Betrayal can cause mental contamination, and the betrayer commonly becomes a source of contamination.
Along with… I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned through my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God.
All I can say is… where the heck does my mind (at this hour) pluck these thoughts from?
However, these thoughts are much better than… dreaming your sister in law took you to the zoo during a tornado, and all the animals were out while she drove through flooded streets in a car now turned an amphibious machine. Saying relax, you are too tense… wish you could have seen the grizzly dancing he looked happy.
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 