I love being wherever I am when I am visiting friends and relatives…HOWEVER…I love just being on the road again.  Today’s drive was short and sweet, about 3 hours or so.  The entire way was blissful, quiet solitude.  No radio, no CD’s, no listening to sermons.  I did talk on the phone a few times trying to catch up on friends.  Usually short and sweet because my car phone (no hands or visual needed) does not sound clear when I am moving on the highway.  Too much tire noise comes through the speaker.  I can hear the person I’m speaking to but they have difficulty hearing me.  So the drive was mostly just the Lord and myself.  I love the driving.  Just wish I was the only one on the road so I wouldn’t have to keep  my eye on the road.  Too much to see!

Left Paulette’s house after 12:00 noon and went by the gym where I have been working  out this past week.  The young man I talked to three days ago told me he had a gift for me.  He gave me a St. Christopher’s medallion that his Grandmother gave to him.  I was touched in my heart.  He wanted me to have it so I would have a safe trip.  I accepted his gift with great humbleness in accepting something so carefully and purposely given that hand sentimental value as well.  I told him Thank You.  I expressed how much I do believe Jesus is watching over me and protecting me and that his gift would remind me that there is someone else praying along with me for my safe travels.  I promised to send it back to him when I reached home.  That is the only way I would accept it.  This way he would know I was home safe and sound.  Thank you Todd for our kindness to me.  Tod also had another gift left there for me from the young lady I spoke with a couple of days ago.  What a lovely card and variety of travel goodies she packaged up for me.  How is it that people are so kind and thoughtful to someone they’ve only met once?  I feel that is just God blessing me through the kindness of others and filling me with even more joy.

Included in my goody bag were 6 CD’s of various things from Bethel Church.  Bethel Church is the one I will be taking the class at this next week.  Included also was 5 packets of Eletro Mix which I have not yet tried.  There were two bags of nuts, macadamia and a bag with a mix of walnuts, pecans, and almonds.  Corrisa, the giver of this gift is pretty insightful as to what it is I would love to  have.  I also received an Herbalife  “Formula 1 + PDM on the Go”.  Can’t wait to try it! Also in the bad were two packets of H30 along with three samples from YOUNG LIVING, ESSENTIAL OILS.  All total, this is one of the most needed and purposeful gifts I have received.  Thank  you Corrisa.  Let me know if you read this.

Back to departing from Paulette’s.  Paulette talked me into taking EVERYTHING out of my car and starting over with a clean slate.  I was reluctant and after we did, I sure was glad it was finished.  Still didn’t find the toothpaste I thought I packed.  When I say we took everything out , I mean EVERYTHING!  I ended up sending two boxes of books home with a few articles of clothing squished inside the boxes.  It seems like a lot of my things get squished!  I did feel better after it was all done even though I was traveling such a short distance only to unload everything once more.  I have two buried compartments in my car and now I won’t need anything from them for awhile.

I arrived at my cousin’s (First cousin once removed) home where she lives and her mother lives with her.  Her mother Joyce is my first cousin.  Our mothers are sisters.  They would still be sisters if they were alive that is.  I prefer to speak of them as in the present tense because in the presence in which they live, they are both alive, still sisters, just living in a different place, Heaven.

What a joyous greeting when we arrived.  Sitting on the table in the dining room is a beautiful bouquet with red roses stuck here and there in the bouquet.  Joy said she bought them just for me.  I think she know how much I love roses.  So exciting to see my cousin Daneece’s home for the first time.  It is beautiful, spacious, and purposeful.  I have a lovely room all to myself.  My bed is an airbed with a foam mattress-like covering over it.  Right about now I would like to be in it.  Up too late again and in the morning we are going to early service at Bethel Church here in Redding, California.  I am excited to register on Monday for the class that I am already registered for.  We register after 3:00 p.m. on Monday and the first session is Monday evening at 7:00 a.m.

The rest of the weekdays begin at 10:00 a.m. and closes about 9:00 p.m.  This will be my first class at Bethel.  I’ll write more about the class after I take it a few days.  I’m getting excited to learn what they are going to teach.

We had a delicious dinner tonight.  Salad, cherries, fresh bread and chicken.  Joyce was so kind by asking what kind of foods I liked to eat.  She had practically everything I put on the list.  I was just giving her ideas, I certainly didn’t expect for her to go out and buy it all.  Both ladies were tired tonight so I just searched the fridge, designed a dinner and had it ready in just a few minutes.  It is such a pleasure again to put my hands on real food and prep  it and prepare a delicious dinner.  So simple, yet so enjoyable for me to do.  More enjoyable on the trip because I am not doing it every single day.  Yet, when I am home I still have the same thrill when it comes to working with, touching, smelling, and visual sensations I receive when working with raw foods.  I love them all.  Joyce still thinks I eat weird!

I sure can write a lot when absolutely nothing has really happened today.  But inside me a lot happened.  I received such beautiful thoughtful gifts, I received a warm, warm welcome from both cousins, (mother and daughter), a refrigerator full of delicious foods I love (including a whole rotisserie chicken ready to eat), a beautiful bouquet of red roses, a front row seat to the the most beautiful hummingbird show, and a wonderful new friend named Nickie (not certain of the spelling” or even exactly what Nickie really is.  He feels like a cat, sort of looks like a dog, and is the strangest little critter I’ve seen that claims to be a dog (at least my cousins believe he is a dog).   Can’t remember the breed but he has a calling.  That calling is to be used on ships to catch rats.  I’ll find out more tomorrow when everyone wakes up.

Thanks for listening.  It was an interesting day for me.  Oh yes, cousin Daneece is 8 weeks post knee replacement and is still suffering much.  If you have good knees you need to get on them and give thanks to the Lord that you have healthy knees.  I hope I can pamper both Joyce and Daneece while I am here.  I love being here in their home.  It is an honor to stay with so many of our friends and family.

Too tired to proof read this evening as it is 10:44 p.m and I need to go to bed.  Enjoy all my TYPOS!

Good night

P.S.  I forgot to ask anyone for wisdom today so I’ll give some from my on experience.  “Don’t stay up this late to write a blog because you will be tired in the morning.”  Now it is 10:54 (But at least my teeth are already brushed)!