Greeting Card/Encouragement from Zazzle.com
With Bible verse: Nahum1:7: "The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him."
So many things to write about - everyday life,gardening, cooking,France,Kansas,family,holidays, church,God,Jesus Christ,Christianity,missions, ministry,abortion, politics, art, music, "Sullivan" our English bulldog,reading .....
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Greeting Card/Mother's Day from Zazzle.com
Greeting Card/Mother's Day from Zazzle.com
Beautiful card - on front: photograph of Spring purple and yellow crocuses and the words: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY .... inside is lavender and the poem: "Reflections" - come take a look!
Beautiful card - on front: photograph of Spring purple and yellow crocuses and the words: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY .... inside is lavender and the poem: "Reflections" - come take a look!
Woman's T-Shirt/Reflections from Zazzle.com
Woman's T-Shirt/Reflections from Zazzle.com
T-shirt with my poem: "Reflections"
Looking into the mirror today,
I saw my mother.
I looked again to be sure.
Yes, there was my mother.
Yesterday I looked into the mirror
and saw myself.
I've been myself for so long
that I knew it was me.
But today I looked into the mirror
and saw my mother.
How can it be that she is she and I am me,
yet today I saw that I am she?
-Sandra Mers Clayton-
T-shirt with my poem: "Reflections"
Looking into the mirror today,
I saw my mother.
I looked again to be sure.
Yes, there was my mother.
Yesterday I looked into the mirror
and saw myself.
I've been myself for so long
that I knew it was me.
But today I looked into the mirror
and saw my mother.
How can it be that she is she and I am me,
yet today I saw that I am she?
-Sandra Mers Clayton-
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Canvas Print/Les Pains from Zazzle.com
Canvas Print/Les Pains from Zazzle.com
Mixed media canvas print ... original watercolor/pen-and-ink, title: "Les Pains" - boy on bicycle, in France, with three French breads strapped to back of bike (available in several sizes, prices, and materials - framed or unframed)
Mixed media canvas print ... original watercolor/pen-and-ink, title: "Les Pains" - boy on bicycle, in France, with three French breads strapped to back of bike (available in several sizes, prices, and materials - framed or unframed)
Bumper Sticker/Limited government from Zazzle.com
Bumper Sticker/Limited government from Zazzle.com
Want limited government? Protest with a bumper sticker!
Want limited government? Protest with a bumper sticker!
Man's T-Shirt/Government Spending from Zazzle.com
Man's T-Shirt/Government Spending from Zazzle.com
Don't like all the government debt we are leaving for our kids and grandkids??? Protest with a t-shirt!!!
Don't like all the government debt we are leaving for our kids and grandkids??? Protest with a t-shirt!!!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Change
Life is full of changes, isn't it? Some changes are fun, some silly, some necessary - and some are just downright scary.
We had a weather-change recently; not unusual here in Kansas, I guess. After some days of beautiful Spring weather - here came a left-over of Winter ... more cold and a light snow. But it was a "fun" change (to me, anyway), 'cause I do like snow, and I got to burn more wood in the wood stove. Plus, I KNEW Spring would be returning. March is like that pretty much everywhere: one day sunny and pastel - the next cool-blue and white again. Right now we are back to the "sunny and pastel", with the daffodils and hyacinths blooming and the trees getting ready to green up. My husband, who's been itching for quite awhile to jump into the gardening season, DID. He's planted some lettuce, radishes, onions. I even got into the gardening and planted the cute little pansies he brought home the other day.
Yes. Change. Seasons change. I welcome the seasonal changes. Each new one makes me appreciate the last one AND the one-to-come even more. With each new season I really DO find myself saying, "Thank You, God! Thank You so much!"
"You make me glad by your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. How great are your works, O Lord, how profound your thoughts!" (Psalm 92:4-5 / NIV version)
Then this week I've seen one of the "scarier" changes. Disappointing, anyway. Have to say it's a change that makes me angry. Makes a LOT of people angry ... we "American People", as "they" say. (Now........aren't THEY "American People", too? Shouldn't "they" be saying "WE, the American people..."?) Anyway, the passing of the health care bill is a big change, for sure. And a rather slap-in-the-face change - from all I'm reading, since the majority of "the American people" are STILL against the bill and have been going to many lengths to let our President and his Administration know it. But our President and his Administration don't seem to CARE what WE, the "American people" think. (It's not so much that the actual bill passed, though there are many problems with the bill; health care definitely needs changes ... but most of the people who passed THIS health care bill don't even know themselves all that is in it.) It's that the President just plain doesn't care what the people he is supposed to be SERVING thinks! Those opposing him are so often labeled bigots, uneducated, racists, intolerant. He doesn't seem too partisan about it, either - he doesn't seem to care what his OWN party-members who oppose the health care bill think. Just today I heard him on t.v. rather gloating (as Madame Pelosi has also been doing) about the "win" and ridiculing those who opposed and lost. Like a kid thumbing his nose at the "loser" and laughing. Not too "Presidential" if you ask me. But, he's given us the CHANGE he'd promised in his campaign speeches, and seems encouraged to go ahead and give us MORE of the changes he's promised. Well, I'm just hoping that we who oppose this bill for many reasons, have the guts to pass around some changes of our own when the next elections come up!
I seriously pray, "Lord, have mercy. Spare us more of these 'changes'!" And I pray for wisdom for "me-and-the-rest-of-the-American-People", and for our leaders. Wisdom is always needed - needed by the leaders of a country and needed by the rest of the citizens of the country. We ALL need wisdom to know which changes to incorporate and which to oppose...and, if opposition is needed, wisdom to know HOW to oppose.
And God promises to give us that wisdom if we ask - if we want it:
"The Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." (Proverbs 2:6/NIV)
"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all." (James 1:5/NIV)
So, God - I AM asking ... and I HOPE everyone else is, too!
We had a weather-change recently; not unusual here in Kansas, I guess. After some days of beautiful Spring weather - here came a left-over of Winter ... more cold and a light snow. But it was a "fun" change (to me, anyway), 'cause I do like snow, and I got to burn more wood in the wood stove. Plus, I KNEW Spring would be returning. March is like that pretty much everywhere: one day sunny and pastel - the next cool-blue and white again. Right now we are back to the "sunny and pastel", with the daffodils and hyacinths blooming and the trees getting ready to green up. My husband, who's been itching for quite awhile to jump into the gardening season, DID. He's planted some lettuce, radishes, onions. I even got into the gardening and planted the cute little pansies he brought home the other day.
Yes. Change. Seasons change. I welcome the seasonal changes. Each new one makes me appreciate the last one AND the one-to-come even more. With each new season I really DO find myself saying, "Thank You, God! Thank You so much!"
"You make me glad by your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. How great are your works, O Lord, how profound your thoughts!" (Psalm 92:4-5 / NIV version)
Then this week I've seen one of the "scarier" changes. Disappointing, anyway. Have to say it's a change that makes me angry. Makes a LOT of people angry ... we "American People", as "they" say. (Now........aren't THEY "American People", too? Shouldn't "they" be saying "WE, the American people..."?) Anyway, the passing of the health care bill is a big change, for sure. And a rather slap-in-the-face change - from all I'm reading, since the majority of "the American people" are STILL against the bill and have been going to many lengths to let our President and his Administration know it. But our President and his Administration don't seem to CARE what WE, the "American people" think. (It's not so much that the actual bill passed, though there are many problems with the bill; health care definitely needs changes ... but most of the people who passed THIS health care bill don't even know themselves all that is in it.) It's that the President just plain doesn't care what the people he is supposed to be SERVING thinks! Those opposing him are so often labeled bigots, uneducated, racists, intolerant. He doesn't seem too partisan about it, either - he doesn't seem to care what his OWN party-members who oppose the health care bill think. Just today I heard him on t.v. rather gloating (as Madame Pelosi has also been doing) about the "win" and ridiculing those who opposed and lost. Like a kid thumbing his nose at the "loser" and laughing. Not too "Presidential" if you ask me. But, he's given us the CHANGE he'd promised in his campaign speeches, and seems encouraged to go ahead and give us MORE of the changes he's promised. Well, I'm just hoping that we who oppose this bill for many reasons, have the guts to pass around some changes of our own when the next elections come up!
I seriously pray, "Lord, have mercy. Spare us more of these 'changes'!" And I pray for wisdom for "me-and-the-rest-of-the-American-People", and for our leaders. Wisdom is always needed - needed by the leaders of a country and needed by the rest of the citizens of the country. We ALL need wisdom to know which changes to incorporate and which to oppose...and, if opposition is needed, wisdom to know HOW to oppose.
And God promises to give us that wisdom if we ask - if we want it:
"The Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." (Proverbs 2:6/NIV)
"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all." (James 1:5/NIV)
So, God - I AM asking ... and I HOPE everyone else is, too!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Woman's T-Shirt/Spring from Zazzle.com
Woman's T-Shirt/Spring from Zazzle.com
Spring has sprung! Come see some lovely spring designs - this one is charming - a t-shirt with the first blooming crocuses..............
Spring has sprung! Come see some lovely spring designs - this one is charming - a t-shirt with the first blooming crocuses..............
Friday, March 5, 2010
Beautiful Kansas day ...............
Helloooooooooooooo, everybody! So nice to be back blogging again. I'm sure there is a way to get back on my previous blog (if anyone can help.......), but I've been trying it all; even trying to contact Google, but never got any responses. Finally gave up and just put up a new blog site - so, here I am again. :)
It is an absolutely GORGEOUS Kansas day again. SURELY Spring is just around the corner. The sun is brightly shining, birds are singing and it's warm out. Hooray! Yesterday was the same - and I spent my first end-of-winter afternoon out in the backyard - on the swing mostly, mending a couple pair of grandson's pants and then reading and drinking tea. Our English bulldog, Sullivan, also enjoyed the beautiful afternoon in the sun.
Can't write a LOT right now, as I'm "on my way out the door", soon's I get off of here. Having lunch with a friend. We both need the "time out" - and what a great day for it.
I leave with this Scripture verse that is PERFECT for today:
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)
It is an absolutely GORGEOUS Kansas day again. SURELY Spring is just around the corner. The sun is brightly shining, birds are singing and it's warm out. Hooray! Yesterday was the same - and I spent my first end-of-winter afternoon out in the backyard - on the swing mostly, mending a couple pair of grandson's pants and then reading and drinking tea. Our English bulldog, Sullivan, also enjoyed the beautiful afternoon in the sun.
Can't write a LOT right now, as I'm "on my way out the door", soon's I get off of here. Having lunch with a friend. We both need the "time out" - and what a great day for it.
I leave with this Scripture verse that is PERFECT for today:
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)
C. S. Lewis quote..............
"If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, than all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day."
(from Lewis' book: Mere Christianity)
(from Lewis' book: Mere Christianity)
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