Sometimes doing what you don’t want to do has great rewards – that’s what I realized today.
It’s 12 : 52 PM on day 1686 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, go to church, read Ezekiel 45 , publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself Idli and sambar for breakfast, learn one new thing –stipple • \ˈsti-pəl\ • verb 1. engrave by means of dots and flicks 2. apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
3. make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink 4. produce a mottled effect– Educate Generations campaign–$2 700 raised so far SO GRATEFUL 🙂 .
This morning I didn’t want to go to church it was cold and cloudy but I’m so glad I went because we were privileged to listen to a sermon titled “Caretakers of Creation” it was about creation belonging to God and Him entrusting us with the responsibility of taking care of it the reverend sounded like an environmentalist I wanted to stand up and cheer.
By appointment of God, humanity (via Adam) was given power of dominion over the Earth – especially the creatures. By Adam and Eve, our power to properly exercise this dominion in the spirit of love was lost and the Earth and everything on it was made to share in our rebellion, punishment and troubles. Nonetheless, we should not ignore our calling to be good, faithful and gentle stewards of creation. Such stewardship is a great challenge, of course, because we are lovers of self, pleasure, money, power and pride.
Sadly, my three butterfly gardens did not survive the winter for the second year in a row. That’s about $600 down the toilet every year to feed and host reproduction for three individual butterflies of three different kinds (monarch, swallowtail and sulphur). I can’t afford to throw money at the ground like that every year and, more importantly, I don’t like to throw money at any thing that has proven “unprofitable”. I should also mention that my neighbors put down enough pesticide in their lawn and gardens to kill 1000 butterflies, bees, lightning bugs, etc. every year.
Shall we hope against hope?
Yes we shall 🙂 Sorry to hear about your butterflies 🙁