Yesterday .......

would have been my parents' 58th wedding anniversary. You cannot imagine how much I miss them ........

An only will understand this ......

"She'd grown up an only child, just as he had; she knew how it was, how you live in your own head a lot." - Brianna in An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon.

Hmmmm ......

The Radiance of God's Will

There are many Christians who grieve when they cannot serve their Lord in some form of active labour for Christ. When sickness shuts them in, and they can go forth no longer to their accustomed work, they mourn that they must be so useless. They forget that that is God's will, and that the doing of God's will is always the finest thing possible in this world for any one. We worry about not carrying out our plans - the large plans we make for our lives. But it really matters little what comes of our plans if only we do what God marks out for us. A successful life in the end is one which has done that for which God created it.

In Green Pastures by J. R. Miller D.D.

A lovely quote .....

"I resign into your hands my sleeping body, my cold hearth and open door. Give me to awaken with smiles; give me to labor smiling. As the sun returns in the east, so let my patience be renewed with dawn; as the sun lightens the world, so let my loving-kindness make bright this house of my habitation."
- Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted)

Backyard scene .........

including Basenji .....