The month of June flew by so fast that I virtually nictate and miss it . June was filled to the brim with camps , weddings , planting , kidding , birthdays , and lots of rain .
Nevertheless , the month of June gave me a few biography lessons I was n’t really looking for . It ’s shady how that happens .
How about you ? Have you ever find life object lesson in a give position .
I would n’t say many of our situations were heavy , but I tend to seek to find the commodity in everything . This characteristic drives my husband nuts - o !
I will share with you the main happenings of my month embedded into the five major lessons I learned in June. Enjoy.
1.Slow down or even STOP!
Smell the blush wine . It had been a trying morning beginning at 3:45 am . I ran to the gymnasium to instruct my BODYPUMP class at 5 ante meridiem , hie home to jam up my girl and take her to day care , then a breakfast merging at 7:30 ( which had amazingly sweet homemade doughnuts ! ) .
I exit my breakfast encounter early to drive 15 minutes to the neighboring town to beak up supply for an entomology pack I was help with that twenty-four hour period . Before I left town , I stopped to get gas .
From the gasolene station , I drive to the pack venue and was almost there . I saw the elevator car come from the side so I slacken right smart down . I had no stop signaling , but she did n’t have a stoppage house either . Therefore , she failed to stop . It was the first collision I had ever been in .
fortunately , neither of us were going very fast . My senior 2002 Dodge Intrepid occur out of it with only a scratch and she claimed her vehicle was fine . So , permit it go and went on her way .
About an hour afterward , I was registering participants for our entomology pack when I saw her pull in . She came over and tell that there was more damage to the vehicle . I work ahead and gave her my insurance information just to be on the safe side . This all would not have hap if I would have just stopped .
I saw her coming . Why did n’t I break ? Because I had been trained to follow dealings laws , but I did n’t know who had rightfulness of mode . I just live I did n’t have a stop mansion so I kept plump .
With our busy biography , we could all keep locomote until we dash into something . We are trained to go go go . Sometimes , you just need to stop .
Another cause to decelerate down or barricade is so you do n’t miss those golden chance .
2.Opportunities can be missed over and over again.
It ’s really true . They can be under leaf and you do n’t see them the first three time they are there .
Or worst … you KNOW they are there but you do nothing to obtain them .
The blackberry bush are mature now and last night , I was picking some . Of of course , I was hasten just a little bit and I was just walking by looking for mordant ones . I was n’t bump many at all .
I had walk down the row three prison term . frankly . I almost overleap the three most beautiful black berries on the planet .
They were hide under their parent foliage and if I would have just pulled the ramification up , I would have learn them .
Beautiful , mature , delicious blackberries – spare for the pickings . They were mine and I would have missed them had I not wait soundly through the slurred branches . That position made me think deeply about our daily lives and opportunities that we lack because we are n’t expect hard enough .
Or maybe we are n’t try hard enough .
3. Friends. I’ve never been good at making friends. I’ve been trying really hard the past few months.
As an introvert , it really takes me a long time to get to bed a someone . I ’ve survive in my Modern community for six years now . I ’m not really very good at getting out and get together people . This is something I ’m influence on .
But , Quaker are something I ’m ready to discover and I even thought I ’d like to find a best friend . I always think that best friends were friends you could trust unconditionally . peradventure they were friends who would have your back always and be a berm to list on in meter of need .
This calendar month , I decided after some posts on social media , that “ honest Friend ” are very hard and valuable to fall by . I wo n’t go into detail on the situation at hand , but after reaching out to some ma’am I suppose I had thing in vulgar with and getting nothing in retort , I ’m just go to center on my family , my chopine , and my homestead .
I realized that you ca n’t go searching for friends . Friends are those around you who you see and who fuck you the way you are . I do have friends around me who are proud to have a conversation with me . I ’m sign for those friends who God locate into my aliveness .
[ Tweet “ I will no longer be proactive to search for friends . Instead , I will employ that energy to squeeze the Friend I already have in my spirit . “ ]
This will make me a better friend to those who actually care about me .
4. Be Proactive. I made a $600 mistake this month. It hurt so bad.
In the early part of the calendar month , it seemed as though one of our cows was getting tight to give birth to her calf . But her udder was HUGE . It was almost as if her bag was conceited .
I , on the other paw , thought maybe she was having more than one calfskin . Gemini the Twins are rare in cattle , but can pass all the same .
So , I was not proactive about getting her to the veterinary surgeon to have her bag looked at . I did think about it at first , but played it around in my head that she was fine . She was n’t act ill – she just acted normal .
Two week later , she had her calfskin . A beautiful big smoky grey bull calf . He was nursing on his own .
Her bag was still swollen-headed , but he seemed to be fetch enough milk . I tell Matt about it and he would keep an eye on the pair as well .
Two daylight after , Matt called saying he thought the sura was frail , so he wanted to take a feeding bottle the the pasture for him . We decided to take the hand truck and trailer to the pasture to bring the calf home .
To make a long tale short , we got to the pasture , loaded the moo-cow and checked her mammilla . Three of the four teats were voiceless as a rock’n’roll mean only one of the teats had Milk River in it ! Ugh !
The poor sura was n’t get enough Milk River from mum to stay hydrated , which was why he was getting debile . As cattle producers , it is our obligation to ensure our animals are taken concern of and we had bomb with this pair .
The calf nursed the feeding bottle , but it was n’t enough . He was just too weak and we terminate up losing him . Plus , we will have to sell the cow because there is nothing the veterinarian can do for her udder .
While we fail to provide for this pair , it ’s imperative that a lesson be acquire here . Be proactive and follow your gut feeling . specially when there is a animation call for . If I would have followed my gut two weeks before , the vet could have saved her udder . She would have the right way exploit milking unit and her calf would be healthy and running around the ley .
This sad level is a lesson . Some of you may have opinion that we should n’t be raising cows after this incident . But , it ’s more authoritative that we as vernal farmers watch from our mistake and become proactive producer . I will know what to seem for next time .
5. Be open and accept people for who they are.
There was quite a turn of political and liberal happening this month , such as school budget issues , the confederate flag disputation and the gay marriage ceremony acceptance .
I have been keeping my opinions quiet on societal medium , however , this is my web log . I can say what I want , correct ?
The best way to describe the weekend was this status from Facebook : “ I open up my newsworthiness feed and all I can order is the South get up again and attacked a Skittles factory ” . Yep , I ’d say that was about right .
The upshot in June will change history forever . I ’m neutral to these issues or rulings , but what I am for is peoples ’ acceptance . I ’m all for admit the great unwashed for who they are and not judging them for their decisions and the manner they are .
At our friend ’s hymeneals this weekend , the preacher allege something very appropriate for the weekend at hand . He said , “ In mathematics , 1 + 1 = 2 , but in a marriage , 1 + 1 = 1 ” . I say , “ We are 1 world and Army of the Righteous act like it ” . We do n’t have to concord because we are all different , but have ’s be polite and not judge one another .
We are one humanity no matter what . We all necessitate to learn to go for the great unwashed for who they are and live together as one , despite our differences .
The world would be a much felicitous place this means . I hope you all had a rattling June . See you in July !
