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Tuesday - partly cloudy, 79/62
Wednesday - cloudy, 82/60
Thursday -sunny, 84/65
Friday - sunny, 87/62
Saturday- rain, 84/64
♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥
It is pretty dreary and rain is in the forecast!!
♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥
I am contemplating how to spruce up the sunroom. It is the first room one sees as they enter our home. and it looks so wintery.. I am tired of the dark colors and the sad decor.. I have plans, but convincing hubs has been a chore!!! So I must take it just a tiny step at a time. and hope he gets with the program!!!
♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥
Our family is visiting the last week of June for 4 days and I am hoping to make 4 days seem more like 7. I miss them so much. I want everything to be as great as possible!!
♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥
Aside from seasonal allergies I am doing quite well!!!
♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥
I had my fruited yogurt and coffee. Yay, for me. I have started enjoying my coffee with no sweetener!! I do not like any artificial sweeteners!
♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥
Grilled chicken salad!
♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥
My loden green tee with light lime calypso top over tied in front. and white capris!
♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥
Chapters from Dueteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, Revelation
♥♥On my TV this week ♥♥
Youtube channels, for example , Location, Location, Location, Escape to the Country, and The Food Network, and HGTV, old seasons of Father KNows Best.. I am a sucker for the old shows!!!Also, hubs and I enjoy watching the old Dick Van Dyke program before bedtime! This never changes because usually there is nothing on the regular channels that interests me!I will watch Endeavor which starts again this Sunday!
♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥
There is a lot to be done in the sunroom if I am going to spring and summer it up! WHOA! A big job!
The Daily Connoisseur is a lovely vlog to get inspired!
- Do my exercises
- work upstairs and in the sun room
- visit my sweet little cousin.
- daily Bible reading
- luncheon with my 6 Sisters
- ♥ ♥♥ From the camera ♥ ♥
Over the weekend I threw open the sashes and enjoyed the sunlight coming into the den.. it was great fun to watch the birds at the feeder!!!I, also, love how the trailing petunias are beginning to spill over their containers!!!
Thoughts on Colossians 3:2
Jesus Christ is refreshing. Flight from him into Christless leisure makes the soul parched. At first it may feel like freedom and fun to skimp on prayer and neglect the Word. But then we pay: shallowness, powerlessness, vulnerability to sin, preoccupation with trifles, superficial relationships, and a frightening loss of interest in worship and the things of the Spirit.
Don’t let summer make your soul shrivel. God made summer as a foretaste of heaven, not a substitute. If the mailman brings you a love letter from your fiancé, don’t fall in love with the mailman. That’s what summer is: God’s messenger with a sun-soaked, tree-green, flower-blooming, lake-glistening letter of love to show us what he is planning for us in the age to come—“things which the eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Don’t fall in love with the video preview, and find yourself unable to love the coming reality.
Jesus Christ is the refreshing center of summer. He is pre-eminent in all things (Colossians 1:18), including vacations and picnics and softball and long walks and cookouts. He invites us this summer: “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28). This is serious summer refreshment.
Do we want it? That is the question. Christ gives himself to us in proportion to how much we want his refreshment. “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). One of the reasons for having Evening Renewal Gatherings every other Sunday evening is to say to the Lord corporately: we want all your refreshment. We really want it.
Peter’s word to us about this is: “Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19). Repentance is not just turning away from sin, but also turning toward the Lord with hearts open and expectant and submissive.
What sort of summer mindset is this? It is the mindset of Colossians 3:1-2, “If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”
In the summer the earth is very much with us. And it is God’s earth! But it is all prelude to the real drama of heaven. It is a foretaste of the real banquet. It is a video preview to the reality of what the eternal summer will be like when “The city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Revelation 21:23). So you see: the summer sun is a mere pointer to the sun that will be. The glory of God. Summer is for seeing and showing that. Will we have eyes to see? Do you want to have eyes to see? Lord, let us see the light beyond the light. Seek that this summer.
Seeking more, because I have been found,
John Piper
I love petunias! They are some of my favorites. Have a gorgeous week!
ReplyDeleteLove the flowers. Sometimes we need a decor change as the sun is coming out more
ReplyDeleteHa, I thought that squirrel was real for a minute! Beautiful petunias, I have to them every summer. I use safflower seed in my feeders, the squirrels still eat it but it's not their favorite so if other things are around, they'll choose that over my birdseed. Sorry about your other flowers, I think there's a list somewhere of things that they don't like. Hope your week is off to a wonderful start!
ReplyDeleteI thought the squirrel was real at first, too. Those yellow petunias are especially cheery.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was a great day when I discovered I liked coffee without any sweetener. My hubby uses maple syrup.
Wanted to mention I discovered some comments from you that Blogger had never sent me. Thankfully I did find them today and they are published now. Sorry about that. Completely unintentional.