Family

 Know your circle and make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you're not looking.  stevemaraboli.com

We are all full of faults and defects but we still want people closest to us to love and support us. In my own family we are very different and in my husbands family it is much the same. I'm pretty sure that describes every family because we are all so uniquely made. We are not alike and we each have been given different strengths and weaknesses. 

There are family members who may not understand or care for us but let's keep our daily focus on those who do love and encourage us. Pray for those who we are disconnected from and not take it personally. Today my sister n law and her little grand~girl made our day special; so today I am blessed by their love and desire to spend their day with us!

We can't make everyone love us but we can be grateful for those who do.....

“Let love be your highest goal.”

1 Corinthians 14:1a

This is a picture taken of my husband with his brother and sisters! 

Love

Don’t Lose Hope

 

This picture was taken September 2020 while camping in Kentucky. It was the first sign of fall to us. I placed this picture on a dendritic monoprinting technique that I painted just recently. I wrote this blog on Hope during Hurricane Season 2006.

 

Gardening of the Soul

 Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Have you ever read an article or book on gardening? When you read it, does it make you a gardener? Of course not, we have to follow the instructions and actually do the planting in order to benefit from what we have read. The same principle applies to reading our Bible; the scriptures tell us that we are not just to be hearers of the Word but doers......it does make a difference!

God's Word can transform our lives if we will apply it's principles to our lives and can grow us spiritually. If we read it and don't apply it would it give us the same benefit? We choose what to do with the information just like we choose when we read the gardening books. We have to apply that knowledge into planting and learn from all our mistakes. For instance,  when I began gardening it was A LOT of failure at first, then I would try again and I never gave up. I remember the first time a neighbor walked by and said, “your garden is beautiful.”  I was so thrilled and realized after many, many years of trial and error I finally was a gardener....now people are always asking advice on how and what to grow because they know I have the knowledge and experience. Did I obtain it from just reading the many books and magazines? No, it took a lot of years and I had to actually get down in the dirt and get dirty, disappointed, and all that comes from cultivating a garden. 

We are to meditate and memorize God's Word so that it will be in our hearts and live out in our lives!

Took this picture on my walk January 15, 2012.