Fireplace

If there are no fireplaces at home the best place is another

one in someone elses home or possible a mall with a hot

chocolate or coffee before stores open and customers arrive.

Newspaper or book in hand spending a few moments of

quiet ans rest before the day begins.

Drawing

As I was going through some things in a small box over the last few days I came across this picture that I drawn some years ago. From what I remember I was only about 11 or 12 when it was drawn. It is fun to look back on what one has done when we were young. I'm not sure why I drew the picture other than for fun. It wasn't a school project that I know of or remember. It brings back many memories of the place where one lived and went to school at the time.

Drafts

Have you ever had the feeling that something wasn't quite right. And then you realize too late that it was a little cool, cooler than it should be. It can so easily happen. Never leave home without checking in the mirror first. Thinking back to working in retail, in a store with womans clothing store there were many things that happened. And this could often happen to customers (and it did) by accident. Good thing for mirrors. And also giving one quick check before leaving the home or someone (staff) kindly helping out in a store.

His eye on the sparrow

Last summer as I glanced out the window from working at some recipes that I'd been working at for the cookbook of Moms recipes, I noticed a tiny little bird (a sparrow I think) drinking water from the little pools of water left on the railing from the rain. As I watched it went to rest for a little while on the bottom rail of my balcony. Over the last months as I have looked back at this picture I am reminded of how God's eye is on the sparrow, looking after its ever need. Just a few days over three weeks after taking the picture Mom passed away and I am reminded over the days, the weeks and months of how Gods eye is on the sparrow and how much more so is His eye is on us meeting our every need!

A full year has come to a close. Each day a page was written on. Some sad and others joyful. With the old year closing a new year has begun with each day a new page. Clean and fresh waiting to be written on. Leaning and trusting in the Lord for each day.

Fall is in the air. The leaves on the trees and bushes have turned beautiful colors. The air outside this Thanksgiving weekend sunday was freezing. Ones breath hung in the air. With the weather getting cooler as we near the winter months the fireplace in the main picture of this blog looks welcoming. To be able relax by the fire and find a good book to read with a hot cup soup or tea or hot chocolate and get comfortable in a big old easy chair for the evening!

Rainbows

Here it is almost the middle of July already! We have had some warm weather and near the end of some of these days we have had some refreshing rain showers along with the displays of lightening and thunder to follow! Following these little outbursts of showers comes a rainbow along with the sun shining again so brightly. As I sit here this evening looking out my living room window after the rain, it is too late for a rainbow. But I listen to the birds, or maybe it is just one, softly singing their lullibies as the evening draws to a close.