So we took some time tonight to watch a video of the Easter Devotional for Senior Service Missionaries. It was a well-spent hour. A couple thoughts I wanted to remember and which are totally paraphrased.
• Imagine if you woke up one morning and the only things you had were the ones you expressed gratitude for the night before. (We saw a video about this very thing - everything people were not grateful for disappeared from their lives. Very cute and well done.)
• We should stretch not stress.
• You're only as happy as you are grateful.
• Remember your potential. Don't let the challenges of life take away your ability to focus on the Savior and make you forget who you are and where you want to be.
• You choose what you want by choosing to obey.
Of course, there were other things that I want to remember, but those are the ones I quickly wrote down. So glad we watched the recording. This video was also shown, I remembered it, it's powerful. Because of Him—Easter Video - YouTube
And today has been a better day. The last couple days I was obviously not on the top of my game. Tears, frustration, etc. I hate that I have to repent so much and so often. I should be doing better.
But...we managed to get someone out to look at the garage door opener. Of course the guy couldn't re-create the problem, but he did a bunch of little maintenance things just to try to avert any further recurrences. And finally, finally, got a response from the window company. The guy came out and after some phone consultations managed to get the broken part out of the casement window. He's trying to see if there's a replacement part even available. Fingers crossed we will be able to fix the window, we use it a lot for cross-ventilation in every season except winter. And winter has yielded to spring. The furnaces are still set to heat but haven't kicked on in days. The Husband is ready to turn on the sprinklers for our very thirsty lawn, and while I'm not being ornery about it, it feels w-a-y too early to start paying that huge water bill.
I finally bit the bullet and ordered a new TIVO mini (while I still can get one) to replace the one that died a couple years ago. The tv in my sewing room gets zero channels, it's annoying to have a case consisting of useless wires staring at me instead of being able to access tv when I'm in here. There's frugal and then there's stingy and depriving. (First world problems, right?) And, I bought a copy of a piano solo arrangement of "Were You There When They Crucified Our Lord". It's lovely and not super hard, I could probably manage to polish it without too much wrist trouble.
Yesterday morning on our walk I stopped and snapped a very small cluster (hanging over the fence) of lilacs off this bush. It's all dried and dark, but still smells heavenly. I'm leaving it on the counter to sniff every time I walk by until the scent is all sniffed out.
Grateful today for a better day, for a better attitude. (Sometimes I can almost sense a shift in how I feel before I get out of bed.) Grateful for good shoes for walking. For some help getting things done around here that we can no longer do for ourselves. Grateful for sourdough rolls in the freezer that heat quickly and nicely in the microwave. And grateful for kind neighbors across the street who enjoy cooking meat that they then share with us. We'll get four or five meals out of their generosity. And, wow, yum!!
