…mission completed

Heavens to Betsy, it’s mid-July already!

The June flags have been stored away and I can easily say that, so far this summer, I have barely had a chance to catch my breath with all the goings-on in my tiny space of this world!

Great joys, amidst deep sorrows.

Mountain top moments combined with deep valleys traveled through.

And yet, there has been immense abiding grace.

Through everything – I have learned (and in some ways have re-learned,) a number of things about love and perhaps, something about myself. It (all of it) really comes down to the decision we all must make: To love or not to love. Yes, as cliche as it sounds, that is the ultimate question.

God is love and commands His children to live in love, grow in love, mature in love, share in love, and show to the world the difference that love in living can make.

One of my favorite working definitions of love is… LOVE is an action directed to another person that is motivated by our relationship to Jesus Christ and is given freely without a personal reward in mind!

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taking the rainbow back…

For many years I collected Noah’s Arks.

Large, small, manufactured or carved – many of which were given to me as gifts.

Our home was littered with them!

When we moved to our current home in 2014 it felt like it was time to pare the collection down & let many of them go. It was a wonderful opportunity to share the mutual love of God’s covenant with others – not to mention all the littles, who were so eager to play with the many miniature animals! However, a few do still remain in my possession – a beautiful print gifted to me by my sister & her family along with a hand-carved rendition that my grandchildren now play with, given by my mother.

I collected them because of the “Promise.”

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royal lady

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home.”

The Queen

“I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service.”

Queen Elizabeth II

hugs n’ blessings for the selfless service which benefited an entire world.