All things nice . . .

  

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MUSICA 

 Today I am flooding my page with all things that are nice, because in the light of what we have been going through in the year 2020 to date, we could all use a little bit of nice. 

 

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Keep the faith, it pays great dividends!

~Marjorie Pay Hinkley 

"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint."

~Isaih 40:31  

 

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Help us take nature's pulse by joining the Big Butterfly Count. The Big Butterfly Count is a UK-wide survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment simply by counting the amount and type of butterflies (and some day-flying moths) we see. To find out more click here. It involves sitting quietly in one place in nature for fifteen minutes and recording all the butterflies you see.  There are far worse ways to spend your time.

 

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She made a feast of little things,

A brown egg in a pretty cup,

A candle on a birthday cake;

A few stray flowers gathered up

And put in an old-fashioned vase,

As beautiful as Flemish lace.

She made a little daily rite

Of dressing up for afernoons,

And laid the table extra nice

Using her precious silver spoons,

The woven mats from Mexico,

The table napkins white as snow.

She made a feast of love and joy,

Of every common household task,

Sweeping the hallways and the stair,

Keeping them beautiful ... nor ask

A finer mission than to make

Her home a heaven for his sake.

She made a feast (Oh lovely word)

Of ordinary common things

Of bread and butter - jam and tea,

Her home a place where shining wings

Hovered above the summer night

And touched the roof with splendid light.

~Edna Jacques  

 

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Love has a hem to her garment

That reaches the very dust,

It sweeps the streets and lanes,

And because it can, it must.

~Mother Teresa 

 

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If you are thinking you might get bored or tired after being in Heaven for a while, don't worry! Try to imagine something with me. Imagine you are a little bird who lives in a tiny cage made of rusty metal. And inside your cage you have a food dish, and a little mirror, and a tiny perch to swing on.

Then one day some kind person takes your cage to a big beautiful forest. The forest is splashed with sunlight. Proud, towering trees cover the hils and valleys as far as you can see. There are gushing waterfalls, and bushes drooping with purple berries, and fruit trees, and carpets of wild flowers, and a wide blue sky to fly in. And besides all these things, there are millions of other little birds  . . .  

Hopping from one green limb to another

and eating their fill

and raising their little families

and singing their hearts out

all through the day

. . . 

Now little bird, can you imagine wanting to stay in your cage?  Can you imagine saying, "Oh please don't let me go I will miss my cage. I will miss my little food dish with seeds in it. I will miss my little plastic mirror and my tiny little perch. I might get bored in that big forest." 

That would be silly wouldn't it?  And its just as silly to think we might run out of things to do in heaven! 

~Larry Libby, from a children's book, What If I get Tired of Being in Heaven.  

 

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Silence is not an absence,

but a presence.

~Anne D. LeClaire 

 

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A man was walking in a wilderness. He became lost and was unable to find his way out. Another man met him. "Sir, I am lost, can you show me the way out of this wilderness!"

"No," said the stranger, "I cannot show you the way out of the wilderness, but maybe if I walk wih you, we can find it together."  

  

Princess Beatrice and her fiancee Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi were married yesterday in secret at Windsor Castle in a very scaled down service with only 15 guests.  I wish the young couple all the happiness in the world. Hopefully we will see some wedding gown pictures at some point! 

 

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"Homes are the divinely ordained fountains of life. It is not by accident that men live in families rather than solitarily. The human race began in a family and Eden was a home. The divine blessing has ever rested upon nations and communities just in the measure in which they have added to these original institutions and have kept marriage and the home pure and holy. Back of the home lies marriage. The wedding day throws its shadow far down the future. It may be, ought to be, a shadow of healing and benediction."

~J R Miller, Homemaking 

 

As a child did you delight in playing house, in playing mother.  Washing, cleaning, cooking, etc. I did.  All I ever wanted to be was a wife and a homemaker, a  mother. I never ever really had any career aspirations.  I only wanted to be an "Aunt Bea," "June Cleaver," "Margaret Anderson,"  "Olivia Walton"  . . .  you get the picture.   And for a time I was  . . . 

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *Be an encourager,

the world has plenty 

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In The English Kitchen today . . .  Lemon-Raspberry Buckle.  Deliciously old fashioned.  

Have a great Saturday. Its raining here . . .  again.  Oh well, its all a reason why we are so lush and green here in the UK!  Don't forget! 

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And I do too!