So far, I’ve heard nothing

Good morning Folks ~ Here it is Tuesday morning and I am thankful for this new day. I had a restful sleep, and yesterday was a peaceful day as I worked on another beaded heart. I was humming along with music, or watching you-tube as I worked and enjoyed myself. I was doing something I love, right here at home. Something I have started making an income from.

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Do what you love

and the necessary resources will follow.

Peter McWilliams

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This job offer mentioned in my last post, was out of the blue, and in my circumstances I had to say yes, that I was interested and willing. If it was meant to be, it would be, has been my thought and prayer. Your prayers and my faith in Jesus have kept me calm. So far, I’ve heard nothing, and actually, I am relieved. I don’t really want to work ‘full-time’. At this stage and age in my life, it’s not something I really want to do. I’ve just been reading a book called, ‘Choosing Simplicity ~ Real People Finding Peace & Fulfillment in a Complex World’, by Linda Breen Pierce, loaned to me by a friend. My dear husband and I have been living a simple life from the beginning of our life together, now that he’s gone, I want to continue in this lifestyle. To get a full time job now feels like going backwards, not forwards. I kept thinking of the drive to and from work and could see it in my mind’s eye, I kept thinking about 40 hours + from home and that just wasn’t appealing at all. I would much rather have some sort of part-time work. What I’d really like, is to work right here from home doing something I love. I kept thinking of the job and how it would start to fill my mind with all that it would entail. I would lose some of the peace and tranquility that has become part and parcel of my life now. Things would become hectic & nerve-wracking. The more time/days have passed and the phone hasn’t rung, the better I feel. I hope I don’t hear from them. It feels right to me. So that’s where things stand right now. If I do hear from them, I’ll have to deal with it then.

Anyway, last night I thought to myself, OK, now is time to fill out the forms for a resale tax # and for a fictitious name for doing business.

Here’s my work from yesterday. It’s a start, and I’ve plenty more to do on it yet. Seed and bugle beads and fresh water pearls so far. This is what I really love to do, create hearts.

Today I plan to get some laundry washed and hung out, go to the library to return/get books, to Walmart to return a 3-way LED bulb that didn’t work in three different lamps that I tried. Plus, I need to get a few things at the grocery.

Here is aother photo, showing part of my life, then I need to eat, and get going for the day.

My sweet Miss Tork.

I will close this post with a wonderfully encouraging scripture verse, taken from Pinterest.

Love & hugs ~ FlowerLady

 

Latest happening at Plum Cottage

Hi Folks ~ About 24 hours ago I was contacted by a lady from church wanting to know if I was still looking for a job.  I told her yes and she asked if I could work full-time? I said I could, but it has been 8 years since I’ve done so. She said it is a secretarial position, answering the phone, typing and filing charts for a home health care co.

I emailed her this morning asking the size of the office and what the dress code was. The office is small, so I won’t have to deal with a ‘lot’ of people, and the dress is casual. Yay, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to wear a uniform made out of polyester.

The office is a block from the intra-coastal waterway, and I’m wondering if there is a view. That would be nice.

She gave the one owner my name and number this morning, the other owner is out of town and they will both want to meet me and I should hear from them on Monday.

Needless to say, I am nervous. Last night I could hardly get to sleep for thinking of a gazillion and one things that this job would have an impact on in my life. No more coming and going or doing as I please. That’s one biggy. When will I do any shopping, etc. How will I take care of my gardens? But the other biggy is making an income. I don’t know how much yet and I kept thinking is the $ worth the hours away from home and my life? The plus is the money will definitely be a big help to me at this time. If this job is meant for me, it will happen. I will just go with the flow. I am praying about it and others are too. God will give me the strength I need to do it if I get the position. The ride to and from work is easy, about 10 miles or 20 mintues away.

Today was hot and humid once again, with a big clear, blue sky and a brightly shining sun.  We did finally get several afternoons of rain recently and that was a blessing. I did lose one of my favorite rose bushes though, ‘Kathleen’. I’d had her for around 20 years and our latest dry conditions did her in. But, I had taken a cutting from her several weeks back, wish I’d taken more, but I didn’t. The cutting has new growth coming from the stem.  Yippe doo! I hope it continues to grow well for me. It will take a couple of years or more before she’ll give me blooms, so I’ll just watch her grow. I loved this simple rose and her scent was so delicate and sweet.

Tomorrow I’ll be joining others from my church family as we have another ‘paint party’. The last one was at my house in March, when 20 people showed up to paint the exterior of ‘Plum Cottage’.  Tomorrow we’ll be painting interior spaces for a couple who just bought a home.

So, that’s it from s.e. FL.  Keep me in your prayers that I’ll stay calm. If the job is meant for me, it will be.

Have a great weekend ~ FlowerLady

Closer than Close

 

Good morning Folks ~ Today’s post is a book review on the book ‘Closer than Close ~ Awakening to the Freedom of Your Union with Christ’, by Dave Hickman. I was given a complimentray book to review from Tyndale House Publishers.

This subject is dear to my heart, especially since my husband left his earthly home for his heavenly one 3 3/4 years ago. Jesus has been my strength and sees me through each day. I want to continually grow closer to Him. The title of this book is what prompted me to read and review it. I was not disappointed and it was a blessing to me.

I will post a couple of quotes that spoke to me and I hope will speak to your hearts as well, wheting your appetite for a closer relationship with Jesus/God.

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“God loves everyone 100 percent.  How could he not? As an infinite God he has an infinite capacity of love, allowing him to give 100 percent of his affection and 200 percent of his attention to every single person on the planet every single second of every single day! This means that right now as you read these words, God’s complete and utter focus is on you.”

“All spiritual grow begins with having the faith to simply be with the Father, as the beloved, without doing a single thing.  It is in this posture that we begin to grow naturally.”

“We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already in the presence of God.  What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take.  As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now.” (From the book Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr.)

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We are God’s creation, each unique and loved by God. 

May you feel His love, peace, joy, strength and healing

flowing through and surrounding each of you.

Love, hugs & prayers ~ FlowerLady

 

Middle of August

Wow, I can’t get over how fast time is zipping along. Of course, that means cooler weather will be here soon. Well, down here in s.e. FL that won’t be until around the end of October, as September can be/usually is, pretty hot and humid.

The past three mornings I’ve worked outside from 1-2 hours, sweat running. The shade is much nicer to work in than where the sun is hitting, that is for sure. Monday I weedwacked, until I could do no more. My arms start shaking and feeling like jello, that was the morning I worked only for an hour. My left arm is still sore from that work out. Yesterday morning I mowed, and then trimmed along the driveway, that was for two hours.  This morning I washed and hung out a load of laundry, then did some trimming of hedge around the secret garden, another two hours. I hope to tackle the main garden paths that are really overgrown starting tomorrow morning.

Afternoon sun, driveway heads north, and then west.

The Confederte Jasmine on the arbor by the caravan needs a haircut, and I’m not showing what else needs doing in that area. I selectively take photos. Where I park is more or less behind me. The cement in photo is one of the runners.

Below are the berries from the Beauty Berry bush. My first time growing this. Aren’t the berries pretty?

This sweet little flower below is from the shrub, Melochia tomentosa L., otherwise known as  Teabush, Pyramid Bush, Woolly Pyramid Flower. The people I bought it from just called it “Gray Leaf” shrub, because at times the leaves are a grayish-green. 

The flower below is from an unknown groundcover. It looks pretty growing with the ‘wandering jew’ leaves.

Below is a Drift rose, coral in color, which I got this past spring.

Below is first the bud taken on the  9th of August, and then the full blown rose on the 11th. The rose is Mr. Lincoln. It smells heavenly.

The cookies below were made to take to a small home group study from my church. Brown sugar crescents on the left and peanut butter on the right, two of my dear husband’s favorites.

This past Saturday morning I went to a baby shower. I knew the family but no one else. It was fun and I enjoyed making the gift. Mom and Dad both loved it, Mom said the colors were perfect.  They are having a little girl. The skein of yarn below and the finished blanket. I also crocheted the tiny little baby and had that in my stash to use for the pkg.

Well, I guess that is it from Plum Cottage for now. I’m ready to get horizontal to read before sleep. Tomorrow is a new day.

Count your blessings, see the good and beauty in each day, take time to breathe, listen to the silence, and enjoy. Ask God for strength when you need it, and ask for help from others as well. You and they will both be blessed and one day you will do the same for someone else.

Love & hugs ~ FlowerLady