Just a Daisy in the Meadow

At times I feel helpless to keep “the frustrated, angry tone” out of my voice and I have problems keeping the volume soft . . . I am finding that it’s God . . . it’s THROUGH God, that I CAN DO all things . . .

“Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies . . .”

It’s God . . . God who puts this “crown” of loving words, loving firm\soft words . . .  as I relate to my children in the daily grind of chores and duties, joys and sorrows . . .  He crowns me . . . Oh, it is joy . . .

“It is said that you praise until you worship and you worship until the glory falls” - Sylvia Gunter (Prayer Portions)

In the beginning, God . . .

made a wonderful place for boys and girls to explore and enjoy . . .

Lot’s of things to keep their attention and thrill them . . .

“How GREAT is our God!

How GREAT is His name!

He’s the GREATEST ONE, forever the same.

He rolled back the waters of the mighty Red Sea,

And He said,  ‘I’ll never leave you,

Put your trust in Me.’ “

Taking time to "smell the roses" literally  . . . and gather flowers with my girlie . . .

Reading "End of the Spear" by Steve Saint . . .

Listening to the 5 cd collection - "Symphony of Praise" recently released by Schlabachs, & Deckers & Hostetlers.  You did a good job, Weldon!  One of my favorites is "I Want That Mountain"  Just sooo many favorite praise songs with a few new ones scattered in that I haven’t heard before. 

Refreshing scenery . . . cool breezes 

Wet sand between our toes . . .

Sweet change . . . trading the misery of car seat for truly a "breath of fresh air"

My one and only . . .

“I will go before you,

And make the crooked places straight;

I will break in peices the gates of bronze

And cut the bars of iron.

I will give you the treasures of darkness a

And hidden riches of secret places.

That you may know that I the Lord,

Who call you by your name,

Am the God of Israel . . .

I have called you by your name;

I have named you,

Though you have not known Me . . .

I make peace and create calamity, I the Lord do all these things . . .”

“The earth WAS WITHOUT FORM,

AND VOID;

and DARKNESS was upon the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God . . . .” Genesis 1:2

Don’t you just love the colors God choose to “paint” his creation?! . . . All those shades of blue for waves and sky, the luscious greens of the forest and grasses . . .

I love it!!! “For all that You’ve done I will thank You, for all that You’re going to do . . .”

. . . And as if this old world isn’t fantastic enough He is going to make new heavens and a new earth.

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;

And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;

For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing

and her people a joy.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and in her people . . . ” Isaiah 65:17-19

Ah, but God still longs for the day . . . when EACH ONE OF US would choose a NEW SPIRIT over the old one and a HEART OF FLESH over the stony heart . . . when we would walk in His statutes and keep His commandments and do them. Then WE WILL be His people and He will be our God. (Ezekial 11:19-20) . . . a NEW sweet spirit, a HEART after God . . . Ahhh that is the most beautiful thing . . . and THAT WILL GRACE the new heavens and the new earth and make it SPLENDID, INDEED!!!

How does one describe the first rain of the year? . . . That fresh, sweetness of spring . . . God created soooo much to delight our hearts . . . the beauty of the water ripples on the lake after ice and snow for months, the first green shoots, the swans and geese and loons coming back . . . We are blessed in many, many ways just by His earthly blessings not to count His Spiritual blessings . . .

. . .But one of the very best is that first spring rain!!!

“You visit the earth and water it,

You greatly enrich it;

The river of God is full of water;

You provide their grain,

For so You have prepared it.

You water its ridges abundantly,

You settle its furrows;

You make it soft with showers,

You bless it’s growth . . .:” - Psalm 65:9-10

“And I saw something like a sea of glass

mingled with fire,

and those who have the victory over the beast,

Over his image

and over his mark,

and over the number of his name,

standing on the sea of glass,

Having harps of God.

They sing the song of Moses,

the servant of God,

and the song of the Lamb,

saying,

‘Great and marvelous are Your works,

Lord God almighty,

Just and true are Your ways,

O King of the saints!

Who shall not fear you, O Lord and glorify your name?

For You alone are Holy . . .’ ”

- Revelation 15:2-4a

I never have really been too fond of the color brown . . . but I live in a brown house . . . and so I, like Pollyanna play the “glad game” . . . and have come to love my brown house. I call it my gingerbread house in the winter, all capped and decorated with snow and icicles. In the summer it DOES make a beautiful background for holly hocks and roses and any kind of flower that I can get to grow there