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Recognizing Design Beneath Disorder
Day Seventy – April 27, 2010
I woke up very slowly on this day, taking my time to greet the morning and realizing I was once again close to family.
After my niece went to work, I worked on my journal and hung out with my niece’s three dogs. While I was sitting on the porch, trying to figure out what I was doing to do with my day, a roach made itself known to me by walking across the deck near my feet. This roach appeared to be dying.
Roach offers the following wisdom:
- Speed to avoid harm
- Understanding shadow
- Moving through fear
- Understanding disgust in others
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As I continued to work on my journal, my thoughts turned to a conversation I had with my niece the night before, which was about faith. I tried to explain to her that sometimes faith is all one needs to be motivated. I told her that I had sacrificed all of my life savings, what little bit of retirement I had to take this journey, and that I was down to about $1,000.00 in cash. I made this journey on faith that everything would be okay in the end.
With just three days to go, including this day, it appeared as though my journey would be successful. I would soon be able to start looking for work to pay off some of my bills and fix my chipped tooth. I totaled all of my donations, which came to $495.00. Those donations had made a huge difference. I promised myself that once I got back, I would pay the $495.00 forward in some unique way, perhaps to one of my favorite charities.
Thanks again, Mark, Chatchanok, Jessica, Barb, Natalie, and Debbie, for your donations!
That afternoon, I reconnected with my ex-sister-in-law, my niece’s mother, and we headed for a drive around Wilmington. She had a few small businesses in town and wanted me to see her accomplishments.
I took the following photo right before we headed out on our drive. The time was 2:31, another message from my mother’s spirit. I guess it was her way of saying hello.
We returned a few hours later. My niece, one of her close friends, and I rode our bikes twice around Greenfield Lake, approximately ten miles. It was so much fun. It started to rain just as we were finishing our ride.
That evening, my niece and her boyfriend treated me to dinner, and we returned to their house to watch the movie The Fourth Kind.
I revisited my daily Kabbalah meditation before bed and finished journaling that night around 11:32. I went to bed shortly afterward with plans to hit the road the following morning for one last destination before returning to my hometown.