Daily 5 - Day 18

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So, eighteen days in...

This was a wild and crazy day within my heart, on the heels of a wild and crazy week. I just sent a long email to a dear friend detailing some of the things going on within me, and it took nearly an hour to write those thoughts out...

But it was a beautiful day, and good...

So, here's today's daily 5:

1. the surprise in the way God started speaking, catching me totally off guard, while I was at church tonight
2. an iced passion tea lemonade, and Macdonalds (one a typical beverage for when I need to pray, the other comfort food) consumed while I processed those things
3. a tour of a cemetery, and hearing some stories of the origins of Calgary
4. Hosea 2:14-16, 19-20, 23 NLT
5. Accomplishing some very necessary errands so that our home can truly begin to feel settled and like "home"
   

Order and Control

I liked these thoughts on order and control that Allie, Dearest posted last night. Rather profound in the grand scheme of what has gone on around me and in me for the last couple of years.

Saturday Morning... Looking Ahead...

We hung the art in our house last night. I know I mentioned that in last night's daily 5, but it really does please me. It was lovely to get up this morning and see things hanging on the walls, to not have the piles of bags and boxes that need to go to the thrift store. I'll likely take pictures of our house to share sometime soon - it could use a little cleaning first - neither of us has had the energy or motivation to keep things really tidy over the two months or so that we've lived here.

This morning's plans include a trip to the thrift store to drop off the trunkload of items I have in George.

Then we're going to the AMA to pick up tourism information, maps, and guidebooks for a trip we're beginning to plan.

After that, I'm not totally sure, though I think I'll likely take in a tour of one of the cemeteries I love. My roommate has been laughing at me all week for how excited I got upon discovering that they offer guided tours, discussing the history, of both of the cemeteries that I love to walk in.

Church tonight is also likely in the plans.

There will be food in there somewhere, and possibly a trip to the health food store to pick up some vitamins that I'm either out of, or nearly out of. (As a side note, I've decided that health is a far more expensive proposition than simply being unhealthy!)

In any case, I'm glad that our house is finally starting to feel like a home, and I'm looking forward to what I've got planned for the day. Looking forward to it with the ever present caution of knowing that I need to take time for sabbath on the weekends as well, and that my plans may have to give in favor of the need for rest.