{"id":6204,"date":"2018-01-04T22:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T03:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:08","slug":"dreading-something-future-near-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/dreading-something-future-near-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreading Something in Your Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Are you dreading something that may happen in your future?\u00a0 Read on&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6205\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6205\" title=\"Encouragement to prepare instead of dreading an event on near a river.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Simba-Chico-in-window-with-snow-1-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Encouraging you to prepare instead of dreading an event on near a river.\" width=\"401\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Simba-Chico-in-window-with-snow-1-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Simba-Chico-in-window-with-snow-1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notice the height of the snow outside the window!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Right now as I sit at my desk typing the wind is howling loudly outside in gusts over 50 miles an hour.\u00a0 We have over 3 feet of snow on the ground in our yard and I am dreading tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we may not have power.\u00a0 Living in a small mountain community surrounded by trees and mountains and streams and rivers is beautiful most of the time, but sometimes trees fall onto power lines and cause us to lose our power.<\/p>\n<p>So I am dreading the prospect of losing power in this freezing subzero weather. But worrying will not help us at all. 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