BLUE MONDAY

Awe - aren't they sweet?

Wouldn't you hate to have to count them?  

Go visit Sally at Smiling Sally for more Blue Monday posts.

SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS

This video is based on Ecclesiastes 3 which is one of my all time favorite scriptures. I hope you enjoy it and that will bless your life as it has mine. Click here to go to the Spiritual Sundays blog for more links. 

I deleted the video on May 6th because it starts automatically and I didn't want the music to play every time the blog was opened.

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 2064 YEARS?

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."    - Cicero - 55 BC

So the question "What have we learned?" Apparently nothing ...

SOMETHING FOR CONNIE

No, I didn't make it. The picture was e-mailed to me by a friend.

I'll bet this tree stayed warm all winter. LOL

Important Message

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Visit Dixie at French Lique for more "Wordless Wednesday."

SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS

After posting pictures of our Thomas Kinkade paintings and other Kinkade stuff, I decided to take another look at one of his books, Lightposts for Living. I love it when one of my favorite celebrities is a Christian. 

One of the chapters in this book is about balance. It's called Remember to Keep Moving. He asks if you have ever tried to balance yourself on one foot without moving. It can't be done. You have to keep readjusting or you will fall over. I remember trying to balance my bike when I was a kid while standing still. You can't do it. You have to get moving. Kinkade uses the example of a seesaw on a playground. The fun of playing on it is moving up and down. He says you could make the whole thing more stable if you took the board off and laid it on the ground, but the result would be boring and meaningless. 

Life requires a constant shifting, changing and readjusting. Otherwise, life would be very boring. As Christians we want the light of Christ to shine in our lives. To do this we must live a balanced life in my opinion. 

Kinkade goes on to say that the very changing tilting dynamic he has found can sometimes fool us into thinking we're losing our balance when we're actually doing all right. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves to relax a little more, and worry a little less, to trust the way we've blocked in the composition and set ourselves up for balance, to remember the big picture and not let the details overwhelm it.

Up, down, with a constantly changing perspective on the canvas of your life -- it's the way things should be. A dynamic equilibrium--full of richness and balance and harmony and joy. 

When I find my focus and keep my balance --

I find that all is right with my world.

                 -Thomas Kinkaid

Be sure to visit the Spiritual Sundays blog for links to other posts. And -- if you didn't see the Thomas Kinkade photos that I put on my other blog, you can click here to go there.

ARIZONA

I Love You Arizona is the way the song starts. Arizona is the name of the beautiful song on a video that was e-mailed to me recently. It couldn't be posted on this blog, but you can click HERE to see the video. It includes beautiful photos of Arizona. You may fall in love with Arizona too. 

QUAIL

A few weeks ago I posted pictures of a couple of quail that were walking along our back fence. This afternoon I looked outside and there were three quail hangin' out by the pool. By the time I got my camera two of them had moved on and the third one was rapidly walking around the pool. I got a couple of shots of him. 

There he goes -- Isn't he cute?