Working With Our Hands

A Little Red Pepper December 5, 2009

Each year that we put out a garden, we always try to set out a few bell-pepper plants.  We use alot of bell-peppers in cooking, and just for a snack sometimes, and it provides such a rewarding feeling to know that the peppers we are eating were grown in our own garden!

Several times we’ve gotten a few red ones among the green, but I don’t think we’ve ever gotten one as pretty as this one.  It was so perfectly shaped and evenly colored, I had to take a picture :) !  This picture doesn’t do it justice, but I think it gives a pretty good idea.

Oh, the Country! October 31, 2009

I took this picture on New Year’s Day of this year.  The weather was beautiful!  Crisp and clear, not too cold, just enough to make your blood run good and ‘tingle’ a little in your veins.  We had to be out in it, and went for a walk through the fields around our place.  I took lots of pictures, but this one seemed to capture the feel of the whole day better maybe than any of the others.

Peace in the Storm October 7, 2009

Sept. 28, 2009

Many despair when the thunders role and the rains fall, 

When times seem dark, and the wind is fierce. 

But they don’t think of the thunder as a challenge,

They don’t feel the cool refreshing of the rain. 

They don’t accept the darkness as a refuge

Or the wind as the breath of Heaven…

There is beauty to be found anywhere – if we will have eyes to see it.

Revelation Rose October 7, 2009

Sept. 19, 2009

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

                                                                                                                                  Rev. 4:11

Rocking Chair Reflections October 7, 2009

Sept. 7, 2009

Have you ever taken the time to just sit on the front porch of a country house, enjoying the sunrise, or the lovely light after an autumn rain?  Perhaps there were two or three chairs, and you were blessed to be able to spend the special moment with some friends or family.  Did it make you thankful to be alive?  Did it calm your soul, or inspire your spirit?

I have been blessed with many of these moments.  They didn’t all take place on a front porch or in a rocking chair, but it seems like each time I get down or discouraged, the Lord sends me a moment like that – one that seems to whisper, “It’s ok.  I’m here.  It will all work out for good – your good, and My Glory”.

Praise the Lord – With Music October 1, 2009

Sept. 2, 2009

“Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary: Praise him in the firmamemt of His power.  Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the psaltery and harp.  Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments and organs.  Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord…”

                                                                                                                                                        parts of Psalms 150