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Welcome to the singing month . . . with roses rambling over picket fence and stone wall . . . climbing up the walls of our old brick shed and falling all over arch of the trellis which invites you into our back garden.
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Their sweet perfume, a gentle caress . . . my world is laced with shell pinks, and yellows and rose reds and ivory whites . . .
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Puppies run through fields of buttercups and return with muzzles glowing with gold . . .
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While girls string chains of wild daisies, draping them about their necks and crowning their sun warmed heads with sweet simplicity . . . he loves me, he loves me not . . .
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And the sky sings too . . . a song of blue . . . with whispy white clouds adding tender notes here and tender notes there . . .
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Bees buzz . . . and pea vines climb towards the sky . . . tender leaves arch and dance amidst the marigolds . . . we enjoy those sweet tender leaves, the first of the season . . . on plates of glass, gilded with oil and vinegar . . . and the tender snippings of those oniony spikes of chive, and lavender spiked blossom . . .
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This is just the beginning of summer's song . . . there is still so much of the garden's beautiful symphony to enjoy and to listen to . . . it is my favourite month of the year.
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Let me tell you of the tender mercies of the Lord . . .
- the sale of a painting which means we can now pay our rent for June. He takes us to the very limits of our faith and then stretches it . . . an exercise which keeps my faith from becoming flabby . . .
- the finding of a long lost friend, some thirty years having passed hence, since we last communicated, and yet it is if it were only a blink of an eye had passed . . .
- a dream in which I got to hold my daughter's hand, and see love passed from eye to eye, where I had felt no love exists. Only a dream, perhaps . . . but I still felt it, and that was enough for now . . . it filled my heart in an unexpected way . . .
- a small furry black head that tucked itself into my side, as we sat together on the sofa . . . then soft liquid brown eyes that gazed up at me and filled my soul with a tenderness so sweet as to bring tears . . .
- hands to work, hearts to God. When you go to work, on the Lord's errand, and forget yourself for a few hours . . . your own little troubles, they seem to melt away into nothingness . . .
And that will do for now. The windows of heaven . . .
"The persistence and the fortitude that enable us to press forward with cheerfulness through physical limitations and spiritual difficulties are examples of the tender mercies of the Lord."
~David A Bednar, The Tender Mercies (well worth the read)
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In The English Kitchen today . . . Bean, Corn and Couscous Salad.
May you experience a Wednesday which is filled with the tender mercies of the Lord. I hope you know that . . .
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And I do too!
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such a lovely post
ReplyDeleteThank you Shorty Bear. xoxo
ReplyDeleteBless you Monique! xoxo
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