Pushing Through to Prepare for The Coming Monster Snow Storm in This Time of Challenge and Change
We worked night and day to utter exhaustion to prepare our ourselves and our friends for the coldest, heaviest and most dangerous snowstorm in decades.
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We worked night and day, pushing ourselves to the point of utter exhaustion, to help ourselves and our friends be prepared for a major “monster” snowstorm about to hit our mountain valley home.
It is a glorious morning as I write at my tiny desk in my tiny house with a view of our world gone white.
Snow started falling yesterday evening, gently, in little swirling flakes that danced on their way to earth.
This silent blessing fell all through night, snow flakes dancing on a light breeze, bringing everything to stillness as it drifted across houses, farms and fields.
I love how much snow reshapes everything we see with a magical glittering blanket now sparkling in the sunlight.
So far, at least, the blizzards that are prophesied as a major storm that would paralyze everything has not arrived in this mountain valley.
I know that in many other places that blizzards are dumping huge amounts of snow with high winds and sub zero temperatures, shutting down normal life, breaking power lines and forcing people to huddle in their homes.
We have just heard that the big interstate highway north of us has been closed indefinitely due to deepening snow that caused 75 to 200 vehicles including many semi tractor trailer trucks to get stuck, stranding hundreds of people that are now being rescued.
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Even Southern California, which is normally immune to intense winter events, is being blanketed in snow so deep that most main highways are closed.
This is coldest storm in years is being called a “monster” storm not seen in decades, with seven feet plus falling in the mountains, with high winds toppling trees and driving high surf against coastal cliffs, tearing at them and threatening to dump the homes on their edges into the sea.
Yesterday as this storm was slowly settling in, we had time to make final preparations before the snow got too deep.
I went out and stocked up on our food and essential supplies to make sure we would be all right if we were snowed in, the power went down and we had to stay inside while the predicted worst storm ever raged outside.
We had two families who are regular customers of our fire wood stand call to say they were out of wood to heat their homes and ask if we could push through orders for them.
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We were already exhausted from pushing so hard for days to harvest and bring wood back down from the mountains.
Though both of us could barely stand, we worked for two days in our firewood yard, making wood for them, even as temperatures dropped, freezing our hands, feet and faces but pushing through to make sure these families were taken care of.
We finally finished the last order last night for a family waiting at the gate,
And after helping the grateful mother load their wood as the snow was coming down, we both came back to this warm and snug little house and collapsed.
We are still exhausted this morning from pushing through for ourselves and our friends, but we have declared today to be a day of rest and restoring ourselves, come what may.
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We know that this is the last season we will be making firewood for our little stand, for selling to folks who have come to depend on us to maintain a steady supply through the long winter.
We have been making firewood for sale every winter for more than thirty years, to supplement our meager income and help our friends and neighbors, but this year is the end.
“The Dawning Light” is like a baby just born, but it is growing steadily now as folks find us from around the world and our family of readers who love what we do increases every day.
I have known all of my life that I was born to serve the world through clear, loving transformational writing.
Though I got seduced by tangents, delayed by endless obstacles, affected by dream stealers and gave all my precious time to other things not nearly as important which prevented me from publishing until now, I still answered the powerful inner calling by writing prolifically every single day for nearly 60 years.
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But since we finally launched this wonderful newsletter just over two months ago, its been steadily and rapidly evolving as I have always been shown in prayer and vision was going to happen.
I know that, however many years I have left on this planet, they are meant to be used to now write and publish and steadily expand our publications right up to the moment I take my last breath.
Publishing is no longer some long held and distant dream, but my everyday reality that will continuously grow in breadth and demand.
Since we have launched, I have been making fire wood during the day, taking a nap at sundown, getting up by 8 pm and then working all the way through the night to write and publish the next day’s issue of “The Dawning Light”, often going to bed only after hitting “publish’ and sending this labor of love out into the world to serve whoever needs it…sleeping for a few hours, then getting up to work through the day again.
But there is so much more that I am called to do in publishing this newsletter, books, videos and other works to serve the world that can’t be done until we drop everything else, every other focus of my precious time, energy and attention except investing every minute of every day and night in growing our publications.
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The world needs the wisdom and solace and guidance these writings bring far more than they need firewood.
There are many others who can provide for their wood supply, but there is only one of me who has been called from childhood to write and serve the world through this mighty river and ocean of words.
We keep simplifying our lives and reducing our needs and expenses so that we can make it on the little income which comes every month. As we choose to consciously live frugally and simply, we no longer need to rely on any work that takes up so much of my time and energy just to help us get by.
In prayer I have heard to lay down every other activity and to proceed in faith, knowing I am finally doing my destined work and trusting that the One who sent me here, who guides me with the sweet small voice within will provide for our every need as long as I do what I am shown and called to do from now on.
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