Scatter the flowers

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci-The Louvre, Paris "Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic." ~Rosalind Russell   💋 Women amaze me.  Moms leave me awestruck.  Female entrepreneurs are inspiring.  A woman with a servant's heart is admirable.  Any woman accomplished in the music, dance or medical field deserves their own See's Candy factory.  And to own a hockey team. Women can lead so successfully from an external "take control" stance, or they can quietly guide and accomplish the highest of endeavors.   Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman, by Julienne Johnstone 💋  This isn't a girlpower blog, just an admiration for the way God has empowered women to add richness to life, make it more meaningful, and pour love into it in so many ways. I have two of my grandkids this week while their parents are in Europe.  I know, I hear you saying now - "What? You're too old!"  I'm here to tell you that's almost true. 💋  However, as I observe

  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