Friday's Fave Five

Hosted by Suzanne

Fridays are designated as  the day to look back   and share the many  blessings we have   enjoyed throughout the week. It always makes me feel  so much  brighter    as I remember  what  all the Lord has  provided  and allowed me to  enjoy  each day!

Monday  we started a new week   feeling a bit blue  because  last week was behind us.  That was a week we had looked forward to for  so long as we  enjoyed  being at Cherry Grove Beach in SC with our daughter and granddaughters  who had spring break last week! As always our time together sped by, and  by  this last Monday  I was feeling a bit blue..  but  so  so pleased to have such wonderful memories!!  It took me a couple of days to get  all  the  bags unpacked   and put away...  and that  was a great blessing to finally get the house back into order following our  wonderful week!

Tuesday I really did not do much except    sort through  things  in the bedrooms upstairs actually still  putting things  aright and  getting a huge   pile of laundry ready    for Hubs to   take down and get started.  Now that is  a  huge blessing that he is so amenable to doing the laundry each week.    I  am completely unable to carry things up and down the stairs and so  he has taken on the laundry   task for our family   and   I couldn't be more blessed!!! 

Wednesday was a quiet day around here..by this time all of my luggage had been unpacked,  sorted, laundered and  ready to put the  suitcases in storage. Thankfully we have a closet that opens up into the eave of our attic and we can store all our  luggage in there!   That certainly  is a blessing, too.  Meanwhile, I got the spring storage   boxes out  from the basement and get all the Easter items  together and packed them away and redid a few areas  in  the  main level  to add a bit of  pre-summer  decor.  It always makes me feel better and stay on top of the seasonal decorating! I had purchased a few items  from Hobby Lobby..  a favorite  place to shop at the beach..  and  it was fun to put them out  to  get into a summery vibe! 

Thursday  I met with my Prayer Sistas  at Dottie's lovely home. We pray together every second and fourth Thursday  for our families, community, the nation, and world.There are  6 of us  from various churches around the city.   It truly is a wonderful blessing to get together  each month!!.  I highly recommend  this   for  us all.  Prayer is so much needed  ...  as well as, a topic we are praying about  these days in particular....  the church to   be  courageous enough too start sharing the gospel more in our  communities and    just  everywhere we go.  Our culture  needs it desperately and it  is up to us  church people to  get the job done!  

After  our prayer time Hubs took us to Chic Fila  for lunch and being on  WW, I   knew I needed to get back on my diet  big time so I ordered the Market salad.  Oh my,  delish!  Now that was a blessing and a half!!!

Friday, today,  we had a community wide prayer meeting  and have been attending every last Friday started  by a national group called America Pray Now.  This is an amazing  time of intercession  at lunch time. We meet at a nice restaurant in the city   and leave a donation for our lunch  and  then pray  for about 45 minutes following  the lunch!  We make new friends and    really spend time  in  great intercession over the church, community and nation! I highly recommend you look into this  ..  these  groups are spreading all over the country.  We have 17 cities in Virginia doing this   and a new one is starting up in Delaware.  The intent is to  get these started all over the  country!  We need God  back into our nation!!! 

   We stopped at a plant center today and purchased  some herbs  and a large planter  for me to plant the herb garden in the planter and  keep it on the front porch ..  therefore,  it is always accessible and easy to care for! I  am  really excited by it!!   We, also, purchased a couple of knock out roses to  replace two that  were  not doing well at all. and put up  a   mesh fence around it to keep  the deer out!!! Hope it works well!!!  Well, that is it for me this week!  Hope you have  had a great week  and  give the Lord the glory!!!