Blue Monday

A blue dining experience. I love the sky and the crystal blue water! I am always happy when a Face Book friend shares one of these cool images! Now please visit Sally and the blue crew today!

Today, Easter Sunday, was a perfect Spring day. My hubby and I were checking a few sales at the few stores that were opened and we looked over rose bushes at K-Mart. We have been thinking of making a small garden area with flowers but with our huge plumbing expense we may have to dream for another year! Sigh! So we stopped and thought about how those sweet roses would smell! Visit Marydon and share your Love is....

Hope your Easter Day was blessed and you were able to reflect on the reason for this season and enjoy your loved ones.

Happy Easter

I so love pastel chicks!

Be sure to visit Tete because she shares these sweet vintage images!

A sweet Easter tyme teapot and bunny friends! I am not sure where the image was captured or who owns it!

I love these peeps and chicks! They are sweet on an Easter cake!

These peep mobiles are getting ready for an Easter race. Body by generic twinkie, marshmallow wheels,pretzel steering and pink bunny drivers!

A peep cake tribute to the state of Kansas and their state flower the sunflower!

A lavender cottage to reflect in. Isn't this so sweet? Thanks Face Book friends for all the wonderful shares.

Wishing you all a beautiful Easter Day!I hope you have many blessings to share and a wonderful day of reflection with those you love.

Stop by and wish Beverly and all the pinkies a Happy Easter Day!

S is for ......Scripture and Sunday

The Jelly Bean Prayer

Red is for the blood He gave.

Green is for the grass He made.

Yellow is for the sun so bright.

Orange is for the edge of night.

Black is for the sins we made. 

White is for the grace He gave.

Purple is for His hour of sorrow.

Pink is for a new tomorrow.

And handful of jelly beans,

Colorful and sweet,

Is a prayer, a promise,

A loved one’s treat!

Happy Resurrection Sunday!

 

 

Resurrection Garden

 

 

 I have found a wonderful poem that I want to share today. Today has been a day filled much sadness. My husband knew a young man in his thirties who lost his life last night, murdered on the streets of his neighbor. He was a father to two sons. A young boy, the son of my co workers cousin ran into traffic at a mall and was struck and killed. Pray for the family.

Today was a day of reflection. Thinking back on my childhood and what a time Holy Week was in my phamily. Then the celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord. I am not much of a follower of the way our world is headed. I have always taken my chances with God. I plan to continue that. But I still cherish my phamily values, the traditions we shared, the faith we were raised with. I have found during the most difficult times in my life the one person I could count on was the Lord Himself. Today when we got bad news about our plumbing I wanted to scream but I know there is a lesson to be learned. Old house, big trees, bad plumb lines. We will pray that we can get it all taken care of somehow, someway. It would not be the first time that we had to get out of a difficult situation. I just know it makes you stronger. So remember the reason for this season, the death and resurrection of Christ.

Here is a poem I found that says it best:

The Friday We Call Good

It seems strange calling
This Friday Good.
But it is good beyond
The world’s simple
definitions of it.
This Friday is Good
Because on that day
Two thousand thirteen
Years in the past,
Death met its match,
In the Suffering One,
Nailed high up
On a barren tree,
Suspended there between
The Silence of Heaven
And the fearful
Rejection of Earth.
On that Friday
We call Good,
History ended
And was buried,
To be born again
Three days later,
Renewed.
On that solitary day
Forgiveness
Defeated pride
And Death became
A mere actor
Strutting across
A finite stage,
A dramatic irony
With nowhere to go.
Why is this Friday Good?
Because on that dark day.
Love’s Everlasting Life,
The One who became
One with us in Jesus
Died,
That we might live—

Forever!

Dan Doyle is a retired professor of English and Humanities. He taught 13 years at the high school level and 22 years at the university level. He spends his time now babysitting his granddaughter. He is a poet and a blogger as well. Dan holds an AA degree in English Literature, a BA in Comparative Literature, and an MA in Theology. To read more of Dan’s work, click here.

Read more at http://god-bless-you.org/the-friday-we-call-good/#MVF9L88i8tJ6L8lK.99

 

Please visit Ms. Jenny . Come share your letter "S" today.

An Easter Story

There’s a lovely little legend
That I would like to tell,
Of the birth and death of Jesus
Found in this lowly shell.

If you examine closely
You’ll see that you find here,
Four nail holes and a fifth one
Made by a Roman’s spear.

On one side the Easter Lily,
Its center is the star,
That appeared unto the shepherds
And led them from afar.

The Christmas Poinsettia
Etched on the other side,
Reminds us of His birthday
Our happy Christmastide.

Now break the center open
And here you will release,
The five white doves awaiting
To spread Good Will and Peace.

This simple little symbol
Christ left for you and me,
To help us spread His Gospel
Through all Eternity

Love is..../Blue Monday

When I was a kid my Aunt Ang use to sing "You Are My Sunshine" and I learned that song and loved it and sang it to my own children! So I thought this sweet Love is... was perfect! Some day's are sad and gloomy, others are full of wonder and joy! So I want to share this Love is...with you! My hubby is certainly my sunshine on a cloudy day! Wink wink!

Please visit Marydon and share your favorite Love is...with us too!

I was visiting Arlene Cuevas and enjoying her creations. She is a talented gal and I repinned her mini Secret Garden on Pinterest. All the lovely colors made me think that I need to get busy and post for Blue Monday! So here is my share:

This was taken in 2011 at Rebekah's birthday! I can always count on Hannah to share her blues! Little sissy, Big Sissy, Middle Sissy! I am waiting for summer so we can have some wonderful phamily barbeques!

My grandson Colton, always handsome in blue, with his "Grandmother" at Jayden's first birthday bash this past September.

Nick and Noelle before we headed to the airport this morning! His sunglasses and our blue skies make the blue cut today!

Nick and his dad before he headed through security at DIA this morning! You don't want to see me! I was blue all day long!

Please stop by Sally's and say hello to her as well as the other blues!

Pink Saturday

A lovely sunrise! I like to shoot these photos each morning! The sky has a pretty pink tinge and I thought it would fit in perfectly for today's Pink Saturday. I hope you will visit Beverly and many of the other pinkies. There are many wonderful people who participate and so many wonderful loyal friends, I am always happy to visit.

I found this darling little April Angel at the thrift store. Her blue bird sitting on her bonnet as a chip on his tail but for $1.50 I had to have her! She is stamped "1957"! I really love her pink and white dress with rosettes and she holds a lovely hand mirror in her hand!  Her hat and her bow hold a sparkly "diamond" like crystal to commemorate the April birthstone!

Enjoy your Pink Saturday and come back real soon!

"R" is for Reading

What's on your reading list? I am rarely without a good read! I thought I would share some reading favorites for Ms. Jenny and all the terrific friends at Alphabe Thursday! "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. You would not have attended Catholic school unless you read this book from cover to cover! It was during the years I attended Catholic school that I learned to love reading! I could go on an adventure without leaving my home! I could dream about places on the other side of the world! I always excelled in reading!

Reading is a wonderful outlet. It expands your imagination and increases your vocabulary and knowledge of words and meanings. To broaden your reading skills read some poetry.

The Reading Mother by Strickland Gillilan

I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth, "Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath. I had a Mother who read me lays Of ancient and gallant and golden days; Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. I had a Mother who read me tales Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales, True to his trust till his tragic death, Faithfulness blent with his final breath. I had a Mother who read me the things That wholesome life to the boy heart brings-- Stories that stir with an upward touch, Oh, that each mother of boys were such! You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be-- I had a Mother who read to me.

This was a favorite poem and I read to my children all the while they were growing up.

A couple favorite kid books that my kids enjoyed in their younger days!

Another good childrens book!

My all time favorite read is the Holy Bible and I prefer the New American Standard edition. But I have a large assortment of bibles and I treasure each one. The word of God is a priceless wealth of information and you can apply it to everyday living. We have the bible on tape too. Narrated by Alexander Scourby and James Earl Jones.

I have an i phone but I am not much into the Kindle. I like an old fashioned page turning book I can hold in my hands! I am going to buy a few book shelves so I can organize my books and when I do I will take some photos. I want to thank google images for sharing these great images with me today.

Now stop by Jenny's place and visit some creative, talented, encouraging posts about the letter "R".