Grateful Category
The Calling Card
Posted on July 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Coming to, I was greeted with the sound of gentle dove coos. Laying there with eyes still closed just listening and drinking in the moment. I love doves. My dad built me an aviary when I was a girl and I had four white turtle doves. The bobbing and cooing are all tied up in […]
Smelling Divine!
Posted on June 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
I don’t think too often about God’s ability to smell. Do you? But he must… Otherwise why do we have references to being a ‘soothing aroma’ to him? Or a ‘stench in his nostrils’? Some even say they have physically smelt the presence of God. I can’t claim that, but as I walked into the […]
The Blessing of Boots
Posted on June 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
On wet winter days I would come home with feet soaked and cold from walks with the dog.She didn’t seem fazed but I wasn’t finding it too exciting. My darling dearest woke up one Saturday morning and announced that we were going shopping for a new pair of tramping boots (hiking for those of other more demure […]
Always Thankful!
Posted on June 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Don’t you just love those cold mornings when the dog takes a dump and you gotta pull off your gloves cause you are fighting with those wretched doggie bags that stay stuck together at the top not letting you in? Wind ripping through your trousers… had to do it on the top of a hill, […]
She Had it Covered
Posted on June 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
That daughter, she’s got a gift! An eye for design with the ability to perform on a very tight budget…’large family’ training coming to the fore right there 🙂 I tend to arrange what we have, rather than knowing how to make what we have better. So when she gave some ideas for making our […]
Whitney Houston Belts the Sparrows
Posted on June 17, 2015 Leave a Comment
Whitney Houston is giving it her all on my playlist this morning. One of my all-time fav’s! Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come, Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heav’n and home, When Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He: His eye is on the sparrow, […]
A 2 Cup of Tea Chat
Posted on June 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
Every man’s worst nightmare starts right when she says “We need to talk”. How many times have we all been there?! Her all awash with emotion and JUST looking for an ear and a loving heart…well, most of the time, anyway. Him with mind racing and adrenaline pumping. “What do I need to fix so that everything will […]
Do you Enjoy the Weather?
Posted on June 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
What’s your favourite kind of weather? Are you a fun-n-the-sun kind of person, or a brave the elements and walk the blowing-a-gale kind? The beauty of the tropics is waking up every morning knowing that a gorgeous day of cerulean blue skies and gentle breezes is your daily fare…unless it’s the wet season and you are […]
A Little Bit of Envy
Posted on May 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
Yes, I admit it. Aunty Shelagh’s plant was causing me a little bit of envy. Each time I visited, there it sat in the dappled light flowering profusely. Lovely purple tubular flowers popping out on long stems. And it just looked just gorgeous in the Mediterranean styled pot she had it sitting in.. No, Lynda! […]
Trousers in a Cold Wind
Posted on May 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
That wind was biting hard this morning. Dressed in woolen hat, scarf and gloves. Boots on with merino socks beneath. Padded jacket to cut out the wind over the top, and still i didn’t feel adequately dressed this morning. I pulled the hat down a little lower trying to cover my ears. Although the dog […]