Cactus Flower

After the recent retreat over Easter weekend, I came home with lots of leftover fruits and vegetables, not to mention all the extra rice, beans and other grains that I carefully counted and stored in a protected place to be left on the island for another day.  Seems my menu planning and the last minute drop out of some of the expected campers made my best laid plans all awry, to say the least.  And if there is anything I hate more than coming home tired and weary from a retreat, it's having to deal with leftovers. But I am thankful this time!  On Sunday night arriving home at 5 pm as we ran around to get ready for our evening church service that starts at 7 pm, I was thankful for 5 beef steaks all cooked and waiting for my family to eat with hearty servings of a rice and bean casserole dish salvaged from the last lunch on the island.  On Monday, I was happy for the fresh lamb given to me by the island caretaker that went in the crockpot with potatoes, onions and ...

  Easter 2011 by Michele

Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters. Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. 2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: to refresh :  to take refreshment, to become fresh again, to revive. Today five ladies and I went to the "big city" for a little time of refreshment.  First we went to the brand new Lojas Americanas in Juazeiro da Bahia and walked around in pairs for about an hour. What can possibly be more refreshing for women than shopping!   Then we all made a few purchases and left for our next destination - a mini mall - where we were to have a snack time. During our snack I talked just a little about the word "refresh" in the Bible.  It'...

  That's my boy!

Family faces are magic mirrors.  Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.  Gail Lumet Buckley Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  From the television show The Wonder Years   Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.  Oscar Wilde   Hmmm, how to "can a day?"   You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises.  Jeb Dickerson ******* Can a day be "canned?"  Can you slow down time, catch it and keep it in a jar?  If only.  We can "preserve" our memories and special moments nowadays with photos, scrapbooking, and even with journaling and blogging.   I guess that's why I keep a blog.  It's sort of an online scrapbook of my memories. I can hold on to them.  Post them for all to see.  Visit them often and set my well processed jars on the ...