IT'S TIME

"He makes everything
beautiful in its time."
Ecclesiastes 3:11

TRADITIONAL

My Harold was a traditionalist.

It took years to convince him to buy a tie other than a red and blue striped one (although he did have them in a variety of widths...the stripes I mean.)

He thought jello should be red and pansies should be purple! These are in honor and remembrance of him.

He is missed. But the memories are beautiful and the hope of being reunited is sure.

TFT: "In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing.
Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God. As water is restless until it reaches its level, so the soul has no peace until is rests in God. " Sadhu Sundar Singh

PROMISES FULFILLED

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every blossom in springtime." Martin Luther

THE SOURCE

"Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Psalm 90:14

EXPLANATION

No blog entry last Friday.
Internet connection lost.
Called this morning. Very interesting information as to why!
Anyway, if postings discontinue, or you get no response from
Email sent; please know I am "out of touch" electronically!

It's a shame that you all couldn't listen in on the conversation between me and tech folks. I know it would be a real "hoot" to hear me trying to explain to them what is the matter, and to try to respond to them when I do NOT understand the basic terms that they speak in!!!! I mean BASIC terms...: )

Most of the time, it doesn't take them long to realize that they are speaking with an older adult...and one who sometimes doesn't hear very well either; and almost always they have been very patient.....a lot of nice people in this world. (Maybe they all have Grandmothers that they care about)

Anyway, Happy Monday Morning...and now I have to hurry to get up to my Senior exercises at the Center......so here's a quick TFT:

God loves you...and that make's two of us!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Last week, Mark A posted a comment that perhaps some of you missed.

I believe it is worth repeating....at least I hope I never forget it.

"A man never describes his own character so clearly
as when he describes another man's".

No authur ascribed.

Mark added: be nice.....
I add: "God, please help me guard my tongue."

A BLESSING FOR YOU

Not wanting to wait for lettuce seeds to grow, I have been putting a bit of bib lettuce on the graound by the fence.

From my back window, several times, I have seen Hoppy Jr. enjoying it. Fun to watch, but have been unable to get a picture.

Last evening I checked my frig to see if I could put a little variety in his menu. Found a few grape tomatoes, and decided to put one out with the lettuce. (on the ground, of course :) )

This is what I found this morning.

If Hoppy did this, I am going to have to rename him Jumper!!

Whatever or whoever is responsible for this, their mother (or grandmother) needs to tell them that the vitimins are in the skin!!!!!

TFT: "May the Lord bless and protect you; may the Lord's face radiate with joy because of you; may He be gracious to you, show you His favor, and give You His peace." Numbers 6:24-26

TAKE A CHANCE!

"Life...
gives you the chance
to love and to work and to play
and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

GROWING THINGS

I am with, God's help, attempting to see if I can grow something in addition to flowers.
Was inspired by the following thought from a daily devotion written by David Jeremiah.

Cultivate the discipine of looking for and finding God in all of life--the good times as well as the hard times.

To see God in the present is to have hope for the future.

"God is above, presiding; beneath, sustaining; within, filling."
Hildebert of Lavardin

MAY BE TRUE ABOUT MOST THINGS

Pansies love the cool mornings.

Every spring when the first warm breeze touches my face with a promise of Spring, I begin driving by Bayers every time I am "out and about". I'm checking to see if the trays of these tiny, bright little "faces" have arrived.

And when I see them I stop. Then I spend a great deal of time trying to decide which ones to take home. These bright sunshiney ones were among my selections this year.

I think I made a good choice.

TFT: "Probably the most of the difficulties of trying to live the Christian life arise from the attempting to half live it." Henry Drummond

WAITING...

This little bunny has been "hanging out" in the garden for a couple of days.

I think maybe he's waiting for me to plant some lettuce!

I'm afraid he is going to be disappointed in that area. Hope he doesn't settle for some tender tulip leaves.

"Before me, even as behind,

God is...

and all is well."

John Greenleaf Whittier

AWAKE!

I don't know if it was the kiss of the sun, or the alarm clock set on "birds singing" that awakened these sleeping beauties....but they are not only awake, but reflecting the glory of God in unabashed praise!

"Dear mother earth, who day by day

unfoldesst blessings on your way.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

The flowers and fruits that in thee grow,

let them God's glory also show!

O praise ye!

O praise ye!

Alleluia

Alleuia

Alleuia!

ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING

UNITED METHODIST HYMNAL #62

LOOK CAREFULLY

"Most new discoveries

are suddenly-seen things

that were always there."

Susan K. Langer

MONDAY'S INCLUDED

"If each moment is sacred....

a time and place where we encounter God...

life itself is sacred."

Jean M. Blomquist

WHAT A FRIEND.....

"God's friendship

is the unexpected joy we find

when we reach His outstretched hand."

Janet L. Weaver Smith

"What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and grief to bear.
What a privilege to carry,
everything to God in prayer."

Methodist Hymnal #526
(more tomorrow)

"One of the most wonderful things about knowing God

is that there's always so much more to know,

so much more to discover.

Just when we least expect it,

He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions

about who He is and how He works."

Joni Eareckson Tada

DON'T MISS IT!

"Right now a moment of time is fleeting by!

Capture its reality....

Become that moment."

Paul Cezzane

BRAVING THE COLD

"March will bring the primrose by the brook, and all the wide green spaces of the forests glorified with scent and singing."

Ada L. Sutton

EVALUATING

"Examining your walk with God,

means looking not so much at what you are doing,

as what you are becoming."

David Wilkerson

EVER PRESENT

"God walks with us...

He scoops us up in His arms

or simply sits with us in silent strength

until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes,

even now, He is here."

Gloria Gaither

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