Here we are, celebrating a beautiful summer. The rains have been plenty lately and the gardens are lush and colorful. I wanted to share a little of that with you, not that photos can do it full justice, but I hope this will add a little brightness to your day.
These hibiscus were grown by a neighbor who brought them over to us. They are simply HUGE!! One I measured was ten inches across! I took a big one out and propped it up in the wisteria so I could pose Penny beside it. It gave her a rather shrinking feeling. What an enormous beauty.
“Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more!…
We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away.”
“Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more without care than anything else that I know of.
“Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing robins do. When they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.
“Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through.”
“Don’t let the song go out of your life
Though it chance sometimes to flow
In a minor strain; it will blend again
With the major tone you know.
“What though shadows rise to obscure life’s skies,
And hide for a time the sun,
The sooner they’ll lift and reveal the rift,
If you let the melody run.
“Don’t let the song go out of your life;
Though the voice may have lost its trill,
Though the tremulous note may die in your throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still.
“Don’t let the song go out of your life;
Let it ring in the soul while here;
And when you go hence, ’twill follow you thence,
And live on in another sphere.“
quotes from Streams in the Desert (May 5th ) – Mrs. Charles Cowman
A peek through the wisteria arbor at our sunflower “trees”.
Gracie in the evening rain at sunset. I love this shot.
My quiet time lately has been in the Psalms enjoying these two books in the photo below with their comments. Today’s reading was in Psalm 37. “Fret not” is repeated three times in this Psalm. Then I highlighted the thoughts, “Trust in the Lord and do good… Delight thyself in the Lord… Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him… Rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him… The Lord upholds you…. He is ever merciful… The Lord shall help… and deliver… because they trust in Him.”
Don’t let the song go out of your life, (fret not), but cling to Him.
Rest in the Lord. He upholds you.
