Friday's Fave Five

Hosted by Susanne!

Whew!  This week has flown by..  Of course, I feel like I rejoined the  world of the living!!  So  great to feel like myself again!!!  I must say  that the week began a bit  slow.. but I persevered to get my tasks done.  I   had started a new Women's Bible Study   which I am very excited about.

  I had found  a poem    about Autumn  in a book I had,  so I decided to copy it in my journal. The next day I was  completely taken by  the multitude of  blue jays flitting from one tree to another.  They do not frequent the feeders  so I knew I had to  share  them here  on the poem!

And   one  place they   were definitely seeking was  the Hawthorne  tree    in the side yard.  So I drew some haws ...I felt pretty good about this page!  It all seemed to  go along with  Longfellow, after all!!

On Wednesday,  Lynn and I   went to our regular Bible Study class. We had missed  the first two weeks,  as I was ill,  then  recuperating.. In the interim,  our  leader had begun a new   book of the Bible.., I Kings 19.. about  Elijah   near the end of his  time as prophet and  how the Lord  dealt with him.    It was  very involved  and to tell the truth, I had a hard time keeping up.  Our teacher is amazingly smart, and he had us in Romans, as well as, other chapters in the OT. I did a ton of writing in class. I hope I  can read it once I  get back to it!   But it was wonderful to get back to our Wednesday class. This is a class Lynn and I  do together, I love it!

A couple of months ago, my prayer sisters which were established years ago decided we’d get back together to pray for our culture which is in great need of prayer. We decided we would meet twice a month to pray , once again,  I was ill earlier in September so today, Thursday was our first time to meet. I was the hostess and planner for this meeting. I served coffee and hot tea, and simply purchased a pumpkin bread loaf from the coffee shop nearby. I sat down yesterday  to seek the Lord for appropriate music.He immediately led me to this song. 

I printed off the lyrics to share and sure enough, everyone in the group like myself were seeking how to serve the Lord  better in our prospective churches.  The second song  was, also, appropriate because we all were praying for the  courage to share the gospel with the lost.  It was a wonderful prayer time and I could tell everyone left feeling encouraged,  as did myself. 

It was a terrific morning!

Friday  will be a wonderful because as busy as our darling daughter is with her preteen girls, tomorrow is the only time we had to spend some quality time with them on FaceTime.  Since they live 7 states away, facetime is the delight of our lives. I suppose it is the next best thing to actually visiting with them.