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Date: Thursday– October 14, 2021
Meditation Opportunities
Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Romans 12:2 (NIV) New International Version
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test
and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Movers Motivations
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Elevation
Worship - Jireh & Worthy
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out loud)
Taking some very blessed downtime
and just getting up and go. Realizing
how plugged into the things that just do not matter. When I came back, I spent a little bit last
night trying to get into my various systems to ready for the next week
ahead. Finding out when you traipse
around the Nantahala National Forest -
Wikipedia or the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park - Wikipedia
You tend to forget the multiple passwords used to get into the many
applications and logon needs. Long past
due me just getting up and going and promising family that one day I will get
up to camp and see the beautiful parcel of land they worked for.
How foolish I was to not have been there
sooner. Full blown acres of mountains
and trees, running streams and natural waterfalls all over the property and
then drive 20 minutes in either direction into His majestic creations labeled
as national parks and forests in either direction.
Remembering who I am and who it is that with one
wave of a hand, one passing thought, one breath into dust so much beauty in
nature and humanity was created.
10/9
Following the google maps this journey after 9 hours
of driving brings me to the mailbox or where delivery should be if anything
were to come up this way. Meeting up
and being led in I follow the lead through all the twists and turns and after
five minutes see this cabin tucked deep
within the vast forest and brilliant mountains. In awe as I get out as they have had much
rain over the past week and the sounds of all the natural streams running all
around this area is vast. Water rushing
down the sides of the mountains and you cannot see some of it and others just
stand there in awe and wonder how beautiful God’s heart is. As I start to unload the rental walking
down the hill then up to the loft looking around knowing this very cabin was
built by the hands of one hard working dedicated man. My son’s grandfather. It started out where they had a little what
is now like a shed that he and his Mrs. lived in while he built this beautiful spot,
they called home more than half the year on 2.5 acres of land.
Looking at it in awe and wonder not even knowing
how it was possible to even get things down the mountain side much less how did
they get back up the hillside to make it to the main road. I was not even here five minutes when I went to move the wheels out of the way and
realized I was stuck until morning when I not only could think and deal. But when some of the ground dried out a
bit. Right now, its been 9.5 hours in
this car and although not a bad ride in some areas just plain bumper to bumper
and then when getting to 28 not realizing it was the baby dragons tail I ended
up on. I am just blown away by the
journey.
Remembering what it once was like to be me and just
enjoy what came naturally. Enjoy and purpose
to always be in God’s country and beauty…
I am here to just spend time with my sister whom
even though I live 15 minutes away have a very hard time stepping away and just
being with her. Last time we really
spent any time was in 1997 when I moved local, and she came and camped out at
my new apartment, and we stayed up watching movies eating an entire thing of Oreo
cookies….
So, this time it took those 20 years and a nine-hour
drive for me to just need to get away and see family before I can’t and remember
what adventure was like.
Please guide and protect all of my family and your
land ,Lord. May your life’s will for
all that I am and am connected be done.
May my faith over any fear prosper; we need you now/I need you.
10/11 Monday
Spent yesterday up early and climbing up the hill,
then going to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park to find some waterfalls
and views that will forever be etched into this mind. Or at least I hope so! Snapping so many photos of the majestic reminders of God’s creation
and who is ultimately in control. Where
the morning clouds covered the lower peaks as I stood in awe and wonder just
how much he is!
All he has given nature and without any worries of
the day-to-day strife of what we make it in all we do or want to do.
Anyway, catching up on my writing in-between all
my stuff to catch up on from leaving the house for a week. I wish I could say I was OCD because I would
love my home to be perfectly placed. However,
its lived in with multiple people and limited help and only me carrying
it. It’s a family thing… nothing I
have is mine its all on loan. I could
hire someone to come in; but anyone that knows me knows if I can do it myself I
will. And try several times to do so
before hiring out. I think the most
exciting thing I learned to do in the past six months outside of not fall down
the side of a mountain this past week.
Was learning how to run a chainsaw and taking it apart, cleaning it and
putting it back together. Who would of
thought? Maybe if you knew me as a
teen where I was always taking things apart and putting them together just to
see how they worked. Only later to
totally change and fit the need of supporting my family. I was one of those girls that wanted to be
a mechanic and actually did some work and learned allot from my friends back in
the day who loved racing cars and working on their wheels.
Back then I was dangerous with no fear to check
things or people out and sometimes okay many times too trusting and getting
myself around those I should not have been.
Well, let’s get back to it. I am exhausted I took the rental back today
and it was a little bit over an hour. I don’t normally put names out there but
my taste in love for some in music and what they create for the world. But before I left, I was going to take my
car. After putting it into the shop to
do the check over and oil change. Just
a couple days before leaving and it was a dealership, they had always treated
me good. But this day ready to leave
and all of a sudden, I am being told I need an entire brake line
replacement. Yes, that is right on a
2015… that for the past 2 years has hardly moved. Told someone had put some foreign fluid in
the brake reservoir and it was going to destroy my lines and very dangerous they
would send me an appraisal of what the work would cost.
Well, they never sent me the cost, although today I received an email to address
the problem. Low and behold before
leaving on my trip I took it to another shop, and they found nothing wrong.
But with that and knowing I still needed new tires
to travel so far where I was going, I decided to shop around for a rental. Keep the miles off mine. Man, this pandemic is killing more than
people. The cost of things and
availability is bizarre. However, I
was turned on to this new to me not sure how long they been out there but
Turo.Com where people rent their own vehicles and they are sometimes half the
price of the bigger corporations and less the hassle. I have only used them once and really had a
great experience.
10/11 -Monday – Spent yesterday up early and out
climbing up the hill then going to the Great Smokey Mountain National Park
finding again myself in awe. At the
very top where the smoke and fog coming down over all the lower peaks and
everything just so majestic. Snapping pics
over and over God’s creation where the wonder and reminders of who is in
control immediately sets in when you are a faith believer. Absolutely reminding me on this trip
immediately of where Faith over Fear can be justified ten-fold. Even if you would have seen me coming up the
mountain leaving the cabin just as the light was coming through the trees. Scared to death if I accelerated too much I could
spin and lose traction and if it kicked sideways go over. Its steep and well hidden and absolutely
worth the climb and worth every bit of anxiety I felt even while talking to God
to let us get to the top and back down to the road without issue. He did…😊
Back to our trip we stopped at the old grinding mill and the old wood building big
house from the 14th century.
And even cooler the little old fella sitting in the window talking to
the tourists learning about how the mill use to work. On our way up traffic was stopped for
the heard of elk that was crossing the road and the big bug calling, screaming
at his heard to get on with it. So
incredible and all it took was my time and driving to see family that I have
been saying I am coming for years and just never did as I was too busy with
stuff that I cannot even remember at this point. Yes, it cost gas and I choose to do the rental
but so worth it. I am not sure if I
would have liked to get up close and personal with God’s creatures as that conversation
came up I was perfectly find in the safety of the back seat watching creation remind us who we share
parts of the land with.
After this journey I knew for sure how incredible
it will be to see Jesus’ face to face and thank him for the subtle beauty that
still surrounds us in the chaos even if humanity is doing evil things to it and
in it.
10/12 I was asked why if I finally took a vacation
do, I still get up early. Hmmmmm I just
wake up. and this morning taking advantage catching up on my reading and
morning thoughts being jotted down while trying to be quiet and not wake anyone
else in the cabin by wandering around and absolutely knowing we don’t walk outside
until day light. Knowing the area is known
for bear, bobcats and who knows what.
Smiling from ear to ear this morning remembering what it was like to be
so adventurous and not sad but just wishing I had kept that up through my days
and not waited until I was buried in the day to day to remember how to breathe
in what God blesses us all with.
From the little things in every area, we spend
time to the people that come in and out of our lives.
How we have to the ability to live, to learn, to
love in every second given with any or all of it or them.
Yes, we can have ugliness but what we do with the
ugly is what matters in the end. If we
let it consume us and eat us alive absolutely, we are robbed and even sometimes
become with what we are consumed.
We can grow from everything given and taken away. Including
our own demons, we choose to hold onto and not give over to the same Christ who
died on the cross who we call upon to live within us.
The ability to hear the clocks ticking as we lay
in silence and surrounded by the darkness and knowledge we are surrounded by
the walls of trees, mountain side, rocks, creaks and nature. Hearing what was thought to be a rumble of
thunder feeling the earth shake and just knowing somewhere within a five-mile radius
another big tree lay down to the earth.
Holding onto His promises not to worry no matter
what it was as we knew if rains came, we would not be able to get back up that
steep mountain unpaved driveway until it dried back out. Although those crazy
thoughts always needing to be in control crossed my mind.
Whatever will be will be! Be it immediate blessings or lessons we, I
was given another day full of opportunity to remember how to exist and what
beauty still is in this world. For Christ never closed off his heart while being
tormented, tortured, beaten, broken. In
fact, even today he teaches us boundaries and who is really in control to do what
we think we should, or we have to do.
What we need, what we put ourselves through just
to have so others can take it away. What
we put ourselves through just to think we understand what it means for others
to care. When in truth once they get
what they came for and you stop giving they, some, not everyone but some just
use you up however they can and leave.
Either by you cutting them off or they are moving on to where the can
start taking and collecting from others.
Truly loving and caring for people for who they
are and not what they do takes work. But
so does every relationship be it 20 minutes, or 2 or 20 years or a
lifetime. Anything worth something takes
courage to dive in, drive in and give and take learning those boundaries not to
look the other way when some abuse the heart you have given them. Or even become so expectant you are not that
one that forgets to bend with them.
Thankfully blessed for the reminders of the great powers that are really
in control and prayerfully hoping the world comes to know the same Jesus in
power as the blessings I have been allowed.
10/13 As I
get up quietly another morning not to disturb anyone and ready for my morning
and what gifts to start my morning with you Lord. My journey with you always even when I never
really know it.
I cannot get enough or describe the majestic hidden
hills and valleys of so much unknown beauty .
Giving all, I am and all I am connected to just be with you Jesus.
People will never really understand that and what
it feels like until they too start having the relationship 1-1 with you.
As my journey is coming to an end I need to get my
sidekick back to school and take care of the home I have been gifted to
obtain. Even if I look around at the
little cabin what one determined man built with his hands. As I remember the huge impact from one of
the tall trees on the hill lay down and took out another part of a shed
built. As I look around to know only God
knows, who and when it is time to lay down for the final time. The reminders of His power and Glory is
beyond description. Driving through
this mountain town with rivers and streams and natural springs running down the
water with massive power and beauty.
Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me to hear your
call. Thank you for allowing me to
spend much needed time with family. Hear
my heart, hear this soul and lead with your spirit every step I take. Be with our travels and may I never forget
it is you who allows me to exhale and, on this day, and the past few just
breathing in more than I ever could have imagined.
Protect those I am connected. Heal the broken families where another friend
suddenly lost their daughter in their 30s.
Be with all that I can be teaching me how to reflect you even when the
world and all day to day gets messy and in the way.
May this thing called life never give up and give in
to anything but all you call me to be, do or adventure into.
Wherever you lead Father may I always see and stand in awe of your beauty.
10/14/2021 – and as my day comes to an end, filled with being tired from
the journey, working on fixing things, cleaning things and just really acknowledging
it is just things. Thank you for all that
is and will be.
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