A new day

 

Good morning Folks ~ Here it is Thursday already. A friend left a comment saying she keeps checking my blog to see if there are any new posts.  I checked and it’s been a week since my last one. Sorry about that.

Sunday I worked on moving more potted plants to the caravan heart patio area.  Monday and Tuesday I puttered indoors doing some rearranging of storage units for crafts, etc. Yesterday I did errands. Each day I usually take a nap too, then have a nice cup of herbal (this week it’s been a blend of peppermint and nettle) tea sweetened with Florida honey.  At Christmas time I bought a jar of wildflower honey, my friends bought me a jar of Gallberry honey last week. The gentleman comes around to the area where I work with jars of honey and other goodies too.  (My boss bought me a larger jar my first Christmas without my hear husband.) Honey is very good for us and so are the herbs.

I’ve been working a little on the beaded and embroidered heart.  It takes time. I’ve been crocheting on a couple of blankets. Ideas are whirling in my head too.  I’ve got to get things back in my little Etsy shop.

Yesterday we had a thunderstorm roll in with lots of rain, which we needed.  More rain expected today and tomorrow.  Great for the gardens.

Yesterday I stopped at the Good Will thrift store since it is Sr. Citizen’s day, 25% off.  I found some tops, a skirt to wear and one that I will use in needlework creations, and some books.

This skirt is very tiny, seems more like slip, and maybe it was, but it was hanging with the skirts.  I could hardly believe it when I saw it. It is beautiful and so intricate.

I don’t know how they made the netting part, but it is all joined together and just wonderful.  What a lot of time went into this.  It was made in China, and they do fine needlework there. I’ve never seen anything like this.

Here are my latest shirts. The middle one has beads sewn on the top part of the shirt. I wear colorful shirts then look through my older clip-on or screw-on earrings for something to go with the color scheme.  DH also called me ‘earring lady’.

I decided to look through the books while I was there, not fiction, I can get those at the library and return them.  Ones on gardening, or crafts, or the odd cookbook, or poetry, or spiritual writings. What I found yesterday were spiritual and seemed just meant for me.  They were at the end of a row of books at the back of the section. I picked up the first one, checked it out and then the next and the next, until I had 8 of them, if they were ever read, they do not look it.  Normally they are 79 cents each for paper backes, I got them for 59 cents because I am a sr.

Last night before sleep, I started reading “Devotion Explosion – Getting REAL with God.” by Christy Bower. We have believed for years that we can talk to God at any time, anywhere. That’s what this book is about.  We don’t have to have a certain time to get close to God, we can do so all day long through whatever we are doing or whatever we are going through.

I look forward to reading all of these and am happy to have found them.  I think they were gifts to me from God, sitting all together just waiting for me to find them. I don’t always do errands on Wed. and I don’t always go to the GW thrift store either.

Here are some blooms from my gardens yesterday. More gifts from the Giver of All Gifts.

I had to take this photo because of the lone purple bloom on this shrub.  Isn’t that neat?

Azaleas

Blue Sage ~ one of my favorites.

Reed orchids with blue clock vine in the background.

This is ‘Cocktail’, a bush I’ve had for many, many years, growing in a huge terra cotta pot.

This is my gifted rose “Rose de Rescht”. It’s really grown since I got it as a rooted band/cutting from Heirloom Roses, a gift from a blogging friend and follower, Deb and her husband . This little bush is about 12 inches tall now and has three buds on it.  This was the only one showing color.  I can hardly wait to get a scent of this wonderful rose.  Thank you again Deb and hubby.

I will close with a lovely piece I got in my email box the other morning from ‘Desert Streams’. 

May it bless your heart as it has mine. (This can be for a son of God’s too, just replace daughter with the word son.)

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Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!

Nor deem these days--these waiting days--as ill!

The One who loves thee best, who plans thy way,

Hath not forgotten thy great need today!

And, if He waits, 'tis sure He waits to prove

To thee, His tender child, His heart's deep love.

Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!

Thou longest much to know thy dear Lord's will!

While anxious thoughts would almost steal their way

Corrodingly within, because of His delay

Persuade thyself in simple faith to rest

That He, who knows and loves, will do the best.

Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!

Nor move one step, not even one, until

His way hath opened. Then, ah then, how sweet!

How glad thy heart, and then how swift thy feet

Thy inner being then, ah then, how strong!

And waiting days not counted then too long.

Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still!

What higher service could'st thou for Him fill?

'Tis hard! ah yes! But choicest things must cost!

For lack of losing all how much is lost!

'Tis hard, 'tis true! But then--He giveth grace

To count the hardest spot the sweetest place.

J. D. Smith

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Love and hugs ~ FlowerLady