Camping

I have sent my husband camping. I wish I enjoyed camping, because nature is spectacular and camping is super affordable and has the best sights and lack of distractions. But I don’t enjoy it. In fact, I find camping to be rather miserable. I maybe could glamp, but only maybe. It would have to be super high level glamping. Really, I like houses in the woods, in the mountains, etc. Enjoy as much time out in nature as I like, then go take a nice shower and go to bed in a nice bed in a climate-controlled space. I wonder about how much this is removed from nature and how we were made and designed. I also trust that God will guide me forward with all of this. I have several circumstances which have turned me away from finding enjoyment enough in camping – rather, which have made camping horrible for me even to consider truly doing – and those would need to be resolved in order for me to be able to camp without constant breakdowns.

Anyway, so, I’ve sent my husband off camping. He loves to camp. He also has been immensely stressed lately. He also is wanting and needing to drop some weight. But he gets very mean when he is hungry. He has been saying often that he needs to hide away in a hole so he can cut calories and not interact with anyone. Since he just finished his necessary schooling, and he has a few interviews on the books starting next week, I figured now was a perfect time for him to take a small retreat into the wilderness, both for himself and for me. I need him to let go of this intense stress that he is letting control him. It is up to him to choose to be happy, but I do understand how much pressure he has put himself under right now, and that that makes it a whole lot more effort for him to choose happiness right now. (I’m not saying I agree with his tactics and behavior lately, but I get it.) Hopefully, this week can be the needed reset for him on all fronts, and he can come home this weekend refreshed and heading in a positive direction on all fronts.

God, thank you for this opportunity. Please, keep my husband safe and well. Help him to find you and your joy on this trip, that he might choose to be himself fully all the time and to love who you made him to be. Please, keep us safe and make us well. Keep us together, too, please. Thank you for our home. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2025