Just a Daisy in the Meadow

“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

Bowing down before Your holy throne . . . .”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights . . .”

Anne’s writings are often an inspiration to me. And I loved her gift list this past year. Here she tells about it soooo well! . . . About the gifts God is giving her fresh and new each and every day! Counting them, recording them . . . and like Dorcas Smucker says, we each have our OWN story to tell, and so we each have our OWN list. Record it, thank Him for it and Praise His Name!!! God is so good!!!

1.Strength for each new day!

2.Mercies NEW every morning!

5.My newborn, my daughter!

6. Girlie bonnets and pink clothes!

12.Bright blue, wide awake eyes of my boy!

13. Warm blankets, fuzzy and soft!

14. Tired body, dozy with sleep!

18. A mailbox to open and anticipate each day!

19.Stamps to send greetings on there way!

24.The quiet of the night!

30. Moments to capture on film!

34. Little voices calling “Mama”!

37. A Mom to call home to!

And yeah, the list goes on . . .

Blessings to you and yours this special, special day of remembering all that God has done and is going to do!!!

My heart is so full of thanksgiving and praise right now . . . I don’t really know how to express it . . . I have been able to take the time to enjoy and revel in the thrill of a new baby this time. God had granted me the desire of my heart to be able to “stop and smell the roses” and I am deeply awed at His way of working things out!

I don’t know if you all remember or not but last time before Jaden was born I was fearful of the anticipated after pains and they were BAD! This time I was determined that some medication or something HAD to be done . . .I desperately didn’t want to go through those two first weeks after baby again.

So all along I was thinking that I would see that I get something to help me out. One of my friends had that kind of help and right from the get go I let my doter know that this is I wanted. Well, I didn’t see her for a long time (while using our midwife) so a few weeks before our due date we petitioned my request. Much to my dismay, she denied wishes!!! I couldn’t take it, I bawled and wept bitter tears into my pillow! Oh, why? Oh, God how am I going to handle this again, I can’t!!! And then I released it and let go . . . I just decided that I guess this is the way things are going to be and I can’t change them as much as I would like to! So I just tried not to think about them or dread it anymore but just take it one day at a time and somehow with the Lord’s help I’d make it through.

. . . And this is how He answered me.

I was able to have my baby at home again . . . but early on in my pregnancy I kept thinking that something might just be different this time. After all, after several healthy births one still cannot take it for granted that everytime will go smooth and safe. God does bless His children, but he sends ” rain on the just and the unjust” . . . and every time we’d drive by the hospital I’d think “One of these times, I just might not be so “lucky” to not have to come here.”

And so it was . . . I ended up there . . . on the hospital bed thanking the Lord that it wasn’t worse.

After pumping me up with several ivies, they got my blood pressure from 73 over 38 up to 110 over 60 (I think) and left me alone till the morning and then checked my hemoglobin. It was pretty good they said at 8.8 so I didn’t have to have any blood. But this is what I find interesting . . . I wasn’t in there long before I let them know how I was feeling with the after pains and guess what, God provided relief for me there!!! . . . And to clinch it even more toward morning they put me on pitosun(sp?) and got my uterus to get to work an clamp down and shrink a bit to make sure the bleeding was going to stop for sure I guess and all this was done WHILE I was on pain meds! Praise the Lord, Hallelujah!!!

. . . And so now I can enjoy my newborn baby . . . and enjoy nursing. Which last time took me at least two weeks before I was somewhat pain free with. I am counting my blessings every day!!!! Praise be to the Lord!

I’ve got it made.

I’ve got a maid.

Oh, this is sweet,

Oh, such a treat!!!

To be able to rest,

I’m doublely blessed!!!

Oh, thank-You, Lord!

Lizzie’s here for awhile, for several weeks though she’ll go home for over the weekends. Oh, what a blessing!

Yeah, my due date has come and gone . . . and baby remains to be unseen . . . It just seems to be a bit weird as I’ve never really gone past that before . . . My midwife assures me that baby WILL come . . . . but sometimes I think I’ll be in this state for always.

But in the meantime I am enjoying the bliss of being able to have TWO RESTFUL naps a day if I so desire. (I do so desire, I assure you, and it is wonderful!!!) Especially as last night was kinda’ve a late one as we are having revival meetings this week and we had the evangelist and his family over after church. Ahhhh . . . being able to sit through a service without having a child in my lap ONCE was a bit of heaven on earth for me right now. Lizzie is worth a million! (Uhmmm yeah, Japheth does hold little ones in his lap also, it’s just that we have two and sometimes three that need lap time in church.)

My heart is full of thanksgiving praise just for this alone . . .

God does supply my every need . . . He said He would . . . He is faithful . . . It’s just that in my humanness I often think that He a bit late . . . He’s not . . . It’s just that He does His will and His way in His time and it is ( . . . if I could just see the whole picture) perfect! And so I praise Him for His excellence, His omnipotence, His power in my life! I praise Him for His faithfulness . . . and I cling to that verse with all my heart . . .

“But my God shall supply ALL your need . . . ” Philippians 4:19a

I love the changing seasons . . . I’m always ready for the next one to come and enjoy the newness, the freshness of each individual one! What can beat the smell of damp, autumn leaves and crisp morning air? Thank- you, Lord!

This morning I went to a friends place and I got some more “card” pictures. I can’t wait to order more cards! I get them from Photographers Edge and using my own pics, make my own cards to use and sell. My hubby lets me sell them in his shop.

“We have this moment

to hold in our hands,

and to touch,

as it slips

through our fingers

like sand . . .”

Thank-you, Delight, Angelle, Esther and Melody for cooperating so well with me!

I won’t tell you how many “bad” pics I had to take to get some good ones . . . I didn’t count them but they are many.

Praise the Lord for the beauty of mothers and daughters, for the beauties of having tea, for the joys of picking flowers . . .

“Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing a loud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth . . .” Psalm 149 5,6a

God blessed me abundantly in my plant sale.

My husband kept his thoughts to himself but he thought that we’d be bringing most of them back home
. . . no such thing. They brought in eighty bucks! . . . and I couldn’t believe it myself! God had His mighty hand in this I’m sure!!! Praise be to our God Most High!

“Praise Him for His mighty acts . . .” Psalm 150:2a

“I will DELIGHT myself in Your statutes:

I will not forget Your word.”  Psalm 119:16

There’s a story here . . . How did my husband get into the sewing machine business? What got him to start making quilts? (He did those wall hangings and various other quilts.) Why did he become a salesman when he hated them? How did he learn how to fix sewing machines anyway? Who orchestrated this all?

See is you can get him to tell ya! It’s one of those stories that will get passed down from generation to generation. It’s all about God!

“The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord,
like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.” Proverbs 21:1