Scatter the flowers

  Google image "I have so much to do that I shall spend the first  three hours in prayer." ~ Martin Luther   Do you remember that busy signal you would get trying to call someone's landline and they were on the phone?  They were busy talking to someone else and couldn't get your call.   Busyness.  In the 70s it was a landline busy signal.  It defined the role of a successful woman back in the 80s, evidenced by a full planner.  In the 90s a car phone showed we had to be able to be reached at any time.  The 2000s brought us blackberries to signal we had to electronically manage our lives, and now- well is there a person on the planet that doesn't have a cell phone? Yet as 'connected' as we are, studies show direct links to loneliness and cell phone addiction, especially among adolescents.     But let's be honest, sometimes we just want to scroll and be left alone.  And then suddenly it's an hour or so later. At first glance, there doesn't appear

  Google image 🧡 Years ago when I was a mom of young kids, I was in charge of the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) program at our church.  I thought a great fundraiser would be to host a craft fair.  I put out the info through the church and at the time the local paper (that was how long ago it was). Hardly anyone came and the people that paid for their booths were pretty grouchy.  Some even left early. 🧡  I had the best of intentions.  I thought it was a great idea.  It totally tanked. Do you ever feel like a Martha? We try so hard and no one notices.  Or we try so hard not  to do something and intentions get misinterpreted.   🧡  Only the Lord truly knows our heart.    "For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 But sometimes a change of heart is what we need.  We have never had a climate quite like today in our lifetime - stress, divisiveness, uncertainty, financial pressures, natural disasters &

Bible Art   "Sir, my greatest concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." ~ Abraham Lincoln Remember long division?  Remember in about 4th grade when you could no longer just put "R" for remainder, but had to continue dividing and make it a decimal or fraction?  Math just got harder from there. I t's pretty sad when the word division is not even positive.  It just means separating something into parts.  I feel like cell division is a good thing.  And dividing up a pizza or cookie dough just benefits us all.  ✊  But our world sure took that to the extreme, right?  We've separated just about everything into parts or sides. ✊  The "us vs. them" mentality can really dominate and commandeer our thinking today in this rabid political climate.  It shows up in every part of our culture, whether we mean it to or not.  We have to watch what words we use, our body language & how/wher

  google image "Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results."  ~ Sunday Adelaja, Pastor 🍂  I love autumn.  Especially now that I don't have to lay down in the aisles of the store & cry when I see school supplies showing up in July.  (I still get excited about buying a new planner though.)  Yes, I put my fall decorations up in August because 1) my house/my rules, and 2) it's really hard to break a 25 year old habit of once school starts it is really considered fall.   🍂 And it's my happy place.  I've blogged several times about surrounding yourself with things you love, and I love everything to do with fall - the colors, the smell of leaves falling, the crisper evenings, football & hockey, the foods- candy corn, hot apple cider, pumpkin spice lattes.  Plus, it's almost boot season so I can finally quit worrying about what my feet look like. 🍂  Nature has an order - wildlife starts stori

  Google image "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu   🐒 Middle school - I remember those days so fondly- said no one ever.  The days of not knowing who you were, what you wanted to be, how you were going to wear your bangs, what backpack was cool, and who you would sit with at lunch. True story - in our middle school 'talent' show I joined my friends to air guitar (and act out) " Gitarzan " by Ray Stevens.  I linked it so you too could enjoy this fine song.  If only there was a video recording of our act.  I'm sure we could have sent it in & made a career with the talent we exhibited. 🐒  My middle school hair sagas include using mayonnaise as a rinse - the only problem is it didn't rinse out. Then  I  trimmed my own bangs and in trying to even them out ended up cutting them to about an inch long.  I stayed home from school the next day out

  Van Gogh's "Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) "What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose.  All that we love deeply becomes part of us." ~ Helen Keller I laughed today when I saw a bowl of M & M candy at the welcome table of a funeral.  The wonderful man that had passed away loved them.  My husband wanted to wear a bolo tie to the funeral because this man always used to wear them as he was a constant greeter at church & made everyone feel welcome every Sunday.  That made me smile too.  My dad discovered Toys Are Us back in the 90s and used to take my 5 year old son there to get 'whatever he wanted' from the Lego aisle.  We have tons of Legos, along with the Barney video of the month club he also enrolled in for my kids.  He's been gone 24 years but It still makes me laugh because it brought him so much joy. My even tempered uncle startled family members and Bronco fans alike because he used to get so intensely passionate at the Bronc