tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post7762282558513441439..comments2024-03-27T03:25:08.267-07:00Comments on Life in the Shoe: The Strangest TripDorcashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07050605764466835485noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-18627327830871540522022-03-27T14:39:52.114-07:002022-03-27T14:39:52.114-07:00Oh Dorcus, I loved reading that someone else is li...Oh Dorcus, I loved reading that someone else is like me when it comes to traveling. I've been out of touch with your blog for a couple of months and just now have come back and started reading all that I missed. I left my job of 15 years in Dec after they "eliminated" my position. I was offered another position, but it really wasn't what either I or my husband wanted for me, so we decided to take a leap of faith and for me to come home again to my "favorite" job, being a wife and mother. I've been navigating the new waters and had just forgotten all about your blog in the confusion of setting up new insurance (we had always gotten ours from my work), figuring out my daily routine (how in the world did I ever have time to hold down a job?!?!?) and deciding what I was and was not going to volunteer for. Anyway, it's a joy to be back on the "Life in a Shoe" train. I've so missed your open, honest writing.<br /><br />So, back to the travel thing. I am the same way!! I love the idea of going places, but I often find the reality overwhelming. The packing, the planning, the driving, the flight catching, the not having my own bed/close/bathroom. Shew! I told my husband once that I wish we could have a transporter like they do on Star Trek. Where you could just transport to the destination of your choice in the blink of an eye and transport back to your house when you were ready to go to bed or you need something. No packing, no planning.<br /><br />In a couple of weeks we will be taking our first ever beach vacation. I have wanted to do this for years, but my husband is not much of a sitting on the beach, reading a book kind of guy. He tends to like to have specific activities and things to keep him occupied, but I had a rough year health wise and then with the job thing, I wanted a more laid back, not-do-anything kind of vacation. Well, now here we are, almost ready to go and I'm dreading the whole thing. We've already booked a condo on the beach, but now I'm fretting about what to bring. What if it rains? What if a storm blows up and we can't go to the beach? What if Mark (husband) is bored and he drives me crazy because he's bored? I'm like you and ready to just curl up with a cup of tea and stay home. So I need to do like you and put it in God's hand and trust that He will find something to keep Mark busy and me relaxed on this trip. So your blog was just what I needed to hear.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Shannon Combs<br />Sapulpa, OKAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901801364880739792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-44346137326091531512022-01-31T11:29:09.719-08:002022-01-31T11:29:09.719-08:00I always love the real way you write, as I can rel...I always love the real way you write, as I can relate sooo much, both to the intuitions and to the frustrations and the overwhelms. This has been happening to me recently, in the wake of plans for big changes in the future. Feeling like it really isn't going to happen, but not knowing if the feelings are just based on shock and the surrealness (is that a word?) of change I did not expect, or if it is an intuition. And the putting it all in God's hands and watching Him work. Sometimes He works it out and everything is okay, and sometimes things don't happen at all as planned, but there is a sense that that, too, is in God's hands. Sometimes we suffer, and sometimes we are comfortable, but it is all in God's hands. So our feelings and intutions, and "burdens" are in His hands, too. We can trust them to Him! Family on the Prairiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539474589757170476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-10496837255260365172022-01-16T14:20:34.091-08:002022-01-16T14:20:34.091-08:00Travelling is hard work. Thank goodness you are h...Travelling is hard work. Thank goodness you are home now and can recover. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-68389754919576088602022-01-14T12:31:42.404-08:002022-01-14T12:31:42.404-08:00This is wonderful! I do believe that if we give ou...This is wonderful! I do believe that if we give our hearts to Jesus, repent and confess every known sin, and ask him to fill us with his Holy Spirit, that he can lead us. He can do this in many different ways. Perhaps your premonition was to give you a little heads-up and advance warning not to hold the trip too tightly in your hand. (And to pack a toothbrush in your carry-on!) :DKarennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-76113659809757941742022-01-11T18:57:08.439-08:002022-01-11T18:57:08.439-08:00Fascinating. Fascinating. Lucinda Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417289089523711683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-78643720350732838162022-01-11T03:51:58.798-08:002022-01-11T03:51:58.798-08:00Oh dear. I think that was quite a nontrip! Oh dear. I think that was quite a nontrip! Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01126478171800166030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-41539966151484878102022-01-10T15:07:35.070-08:002022-01-10T15:07:35.070-08:00I just came back from a trip to PA and was blessed...I just came back from a trip to PA and was blessed with no delays or cancellations on my flights. I was certainly prepared for the possibility, though. Glad you're home@<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04184614611162534335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-71335586870762433202022-01-10T11:42:30.777-08:002022-01-10T11:42:30.777-08:00Dorcas, our upcoming meeting on Thursday will seem...Dorcas, our upcoming meeting on Thursday will seem frightfully dull after all of these events. What an adventurous life you lead. <3Patricia Leehttp://www.authorpatricialee.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-86242820233565184862022-01-10T08:24:46.068-08:002022-01-10T08:24:46.068-08:00Oh, my! What else can I say!!Oh, my! What else can I say!!Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12683178683571406190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11022879.post-32406961196134664502022-01-10T05:34:54.026-08:002022-01-10T05:34:54.026-08:00This is comforting to me as I endeavor to remain c...This is comforting to me as I endeavor to remain calm amid early morning and late night anxieties about our daughter’s flight to Kosovo tomorrow. She has four stops. I’d be much more at peace with one stop in America followed by a direct flight to Kosovo, especially given the flight delays and chaos I’m hearing about lately. This is a reminder to “let go” and trust the Lord with all of it.KarynsHousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03287123941643810150noreply@blogger.com