Outdoor Christmas Tree

Posted December 25, 2020

Filed under 🦋 Children's Corner

When the granddaughters said they didn’t have a Christmas tree outside, they decided to create one.

A half hour later, chalk, pebbles, leaves and lots of imagination.

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Christmas Breakfast Fun

Posted December 24, 2020

Filed under 🦋 Children's Corner

A fun breakfast with the granddaughters.

This one is 3 year old Ella’s who gave instructions.

A breakfast eaten with smiles.

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A Summertime Christmas

Posted December 15, 2020

Filed under 🦋 Retirement

I see a lot of winter Christmas posts and they’re all wonderful but I thought some photos of a summer Christmas needs to be shared.

It’s our 2nd Christmas at our new home but because we only moved in a few weeks before Christmas last year we didn’t decorate much.

Simple decorations in a little house can look good too.

Outdoors is where you will find us most days.

Archived in: Retirement

A Touch of Christmas

Posted December 1, 2020

Filed under 🦋 I'm in the Garden

This years theme: The Nutcracker Suite.

If only I could find the sugar plum fairy.

Perhaps I should ask the gnomes.

Archived in: I’m in the Garden

Live Long and Prosper

Posted December 31, 2019

Filed under 🦋 Christian Reads

Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (King James Version)

This is one of our favourite verses in the entire Bible. You may have noticed we have used the KJV of this verse above and although Norm and I use the New International Version for our every day use, this verse doesn’t work for us in the NIV.

This is how it’s written in the NIV: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Do you see the difference? Does it contradict? Does it make you feel better as a person reading the NIV version of this verse? Does it make you think you’ll be wealthy?

After discussing this, we decided that it’s more likely that the author of Jeremiah meant this for the Jewish nation as a whole; to grow stronger or to flourish. We read in the Bible that this promise was fulfilled. That is: those in exile returned, and the nation of Israel was restored for a time. God made a promise through the prophets, and that promise came true.

Our God is the God of salvation. He wants to redeem people and put them on a path of wholeness, just as He wanted the nation of Israel to be redeemed and to be whole again. He really wanted them to thrive and flourish.

As any fan of Star Trek knows, to “live long and prosper” is good advice.

Have a very happy and prosperous New Year.