I have so many blessings it’s tiring me out!

I seem to have so many blessings it’s tiring me out lol! Life is so full of good things, my wonderful family, incredible parties and BBQs, sailing, plants and allotment, great friends, writing, blogging etc. I just wish I had extra energy to enjoy it all more! Now approaching my 67th birthday and having to “pace myself” somewhat it reminds me of the saying that life should be lived to the full not limping to the finish line but skidding into last base lol!

God has been good to me and my more frequent times of rest are punctuated more and more by my heartfelt thanks and appreciation of all He does for me on a daily basis.

Life increases blog decreases lol!

Sorry my blog and reader have been very neglected of late. Since this is majorly due to family reunions, parties, picnics, etc. etc. I wont apologise too much lol! Hope you are all also enjoying the spring and all its joys.

(The photo is me enjoying 20s style dress up at my daughter’s 40 birthday party – the climax of recent events. )

Life can be like English spring.

Funny though it may be, the picture gives a pretty acurate illustration of spring in England – this year being a pretty extreme case!

While chuckling, I thought life can be like that too. After a long “winter” the sun finally appears only to be eclisped a few days later by a torrential downpour of problems and sorrows. Slowly it picks up again, the clouds of doubt disperse as it grows steadily warmer. Then again the cold hits etc.

My son, with the manifest wisdom of a thirteen year old, once told me when I felt overloaded with problems. “It’s like the tide, the waves come in and then withdraw but each time they reach a little further and after a while though you don’t see it so much the tide is in.”

Spring here is like that too, each time it gets cold again it’s a little warmer than last time, each time the sun shines it lasts longer. Life is like that too. Seldom do we advance steadily toward our dreams. It’s more often two steps forward and one back. It’s important to bare this in mind and keep our minds on the progress or we can get discouraged by frequent set backs and throw in the towel just before it’s time to launch into the depths and swim.

Don’t overthink life!

God dwells in life.

God dwells more in a little sparrow than in all the buildings dedicated to him.

If times seem dark remember…

There’s no struggle

Twixt light and darkness.

When light comes

Darkness is vanquished.

Vast darkness

Makes a tiny light

Brighter,

More easily seen.

Darkness cannot penetrate light

But light can penetrate darkness.

We cannot fight the darkness, but,

Let in the light and darkness flees.

Lighting the darkness.

When night consumes the sky, the brilliant sun is gone,
The moon reflects it’s light to comfort unto dawn.
Though joy and laughter dim, and dreadful shadows fall
God’s reflected love is with us through it all.
The sun’s not vanished from the sky, though we see it not.
It’s just not in our present gaze, its brilliance we forgot.
Earth’s spinning surface turns away, the golden light erased
On its surface we perceive the situation’s changed.
But when the moon is on the rise, we know the sun’s still there
And gazing at its haloed glow are lifted from despair.
But more than this, we can embrace the shadow of the night
Knowing that the times of dark enhance our own small light.
For as the glory of the sun, by day outshines the moon
When life grows dark our smaller lights become reflective soon.

River walk.

The water it can teach you, if you linger so
Tell you of the secrets it learned so long ago.
Tell you how in flowing, rough rocks it wears away,
How to surf the rapids like a child within at play.
It does not try to force its way when stones obscure its course
It flows around, soft yielding, born from a humble source.
First born in the creation, preceding even light
It’s learnt in all its flowing not to put up a fight.
Transformed and recreated, cleansed and born afresh
It’s cycle oft repeated, it journeys on at rest.
T’was there at the creation, still it with us bides,
A glorious acquisition with all its waves and tides.
It dwells also within us, within each living thing
It cleans, refreshes, binds us, to all the earth as kin.
So listen to God’s waters, as they play a soothing tune,
And yield to higher purpose, of earth and man and moon.

Flying lessons?

Such a nice feeling!

I’m a very happy bunny today! Why? Whilst discussing UK retirement ages the lady beside me said, “You don’t mean to say you’re 61?” (my age when I retired) She looked genuinely amazed and even more so when I told her I was actually 66! What was it Shakespere said about women and vanity? lol!

(Actually I have to give all the credit for that to Jesus – considering my very adventurous life it’s a wonder I’m alive at all! lol!)