Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! ❤️ The most beautiful, loving, deepest and special love is the love of our very loving Saviour Lord Jesus Christ and our very loving Heavenly Father 💗The Cross was the most expressive expression of Their love. Their love is eternal. It is constant. It remains with us and in us always. May we give thanks to Them each and every day!

 I really like Paddington Bear! He is such a cute and funny bear! He is very well mannered and polite! He does get into quite a few “pickles” though! He is very caring and friendly ( and will always cheerfully share one of his marmalade sandwiches that he stores under his hat! 🙂)

I have watched all his movies and seen all his tv shows. He is very loving towards his special Aunt Lucy, who lives in “The Home for Retired Bears” in Darkest Peru. He is so very appreciative to him and his Uncle who rescued him and brought him up from when he was young. It is a very special caring family relationship between them. It is very lovely and caring the letters that he writes to her whilst he now lives in London. 

   Our aged loved ones are so very, very special to us ❤️They have been through a lot in their lives, and we can learn so much from their life experiences whilst listening them. They can also be very supportive and encouraging. 

   My loving Lord Jesus brought some very special older friends into my life as I was growing up. I knew that they were praying for me and caring about me, and that really helped. Whatever our age, whether young or older, we all have a special role to encourage and be there for others. We will never really know what a word, a loving caring deed, a smile or a chat will mean for another person. But we know that it really is a way of shining out our beautiful and loving Saviour’s love ❤️

 Pansies are very pretty and happy flowers. They seem to be very gentle with their small size and soft petals. My lovely Mum knew that I liked pansies. She used to buy me lots of writing paper which had pansies on them. She even found envelopes that had pansies on that would match with the writing paper! It is very beautiful that many people told us after their loved one had passed away, that they found letters that I had written on this pansies patterned writing paper to their loved on, in parts of their homes when they were clearing out their belongings. I give lots of big thanks to my Loving Lord Jesus Who led me to write those letters. They were just me chatting away about everyday things but they were filled with His love. 

Words both said and written are very precious and mean a lot. They encourage, gladden, bring joy and are a way of strengthening hope in what lays ahead. The most beautiful and loving words are the Holy Bible. It speaks to us deeply of our very loving  Saviour’s and Heavenly Father’s love. May we listen and hear His words speaking to us through the scriptures each day. 

 Hello everyone! I am going to start posting “ chirpings” again each day. I hope that you will enjoy reading them and find encouragement ❤

   Each weekend, Dad and I do our weekly Coles shopping online on her website. I really enjoy doing this with Dad, as it is a special time when we discuss what we need to order to have delivered for the upcoming week. It is lots of fun, and a happy time. Dad always makes me laugh! With the fruit and tomatoes, we always have to think ahead, as we need to give them time to ripen up when we receive them! Sometimes they seem to “ take ages” before they are ripe enough to eat! Warm weather though very quickly speeds up the ripening process! We also need to make the “big decisions” on how many to buy of each product. Dad and I each like our own type of bread, so we need to order two types. When the bread comes, Dad quickly freezes it and takes our slices each day for our toast and sandwiches. 

   Just as each week we order all sorts of fruits, such as apples, pears, bananas, peaches, nectarines and a variety of berries, may we also bear much fruit for our loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father. Our Lord Jesus is the True Vine. We rest in His love and at the same time produce  fruit that contains His love in our words and deeds. 

I thought the teddy picture below was also very cute.

 Hello everyone! ❤️ If anyone would like to watch my videos  on my YouTube channel, the link is 

https://www.youtube.com/@sparrowchirpings

Sending hugs and smiles to everyone! 

    I had the hymn on my mind the other day that says : “Leaning on the  everlasting arms” It comes from the bible verse Deuteronomy 33:27 which is 

 “The eternal God is your refuge, 

and underneath are the everlasting arms” 

  I was thinking about our loving Lord Jesus as a little baby in the manger at the stable, and he would have reached out His arms to his loving parents in love. Those little arms would again stretch out in love, but this time on a cross❤️Our Lord has His arms carrying us each day 💕

  Dad has played the piano and organ for sooo many Christmas services, programs and Christmas catatas over the time! Each service or program involved lots of enjoyable Christmas music for him to play and for people to listen to. His fingers must have got quite tired from all the playing! I think though that he really enjoyed playing the Christmas themed music that could especially be played at that time of year. It is very lovely to listen to and sing Christmas hymns and carols. They are special ways to praise our loving Lord for the greatest Gift of all!  We rejoice in our hearts❤️

 Last week, the U.S.A. celebrated Thanksgiving Day. It was a special time when families and friends gathered together to enjoy time with each other and a meal. It is a good reminder to us that we have  soooo much to be  thankful for.❤️We have the beautiful loving care and love of our Lord Jesus and our Heavenly Father, and the special love of all our loved ones both those who are still with us here and those who have passed away and are waiting to see us. May we continually give thanks!! 💕💖

   As it is nearing the end of November, I was thinking about the many years that Mum and Dad spent many days and weeks preparing for and buying for the Annual Strathalan Kiosk Christmas sale that was held every year at the end of November. They spent lots of time visiting lots of different shops to buy lovely Christmas products, biscuits, chocolates tins, sweets,decorations, etc at the lowest price so that the Residents had lots of lovely items to choose from and buy for their Christmas shopping at the cheapest price possible. It was sooo much fun when Mum and Dad would come home from their shopping and spread the bought  items out in our loungeroom so that I could enjoy looking at them too! 🎄They would them need to be priced with a tag and put in boxes, ready for the Sale day! They are very special memories  ❤️ Most of all, I know that Mum and Dad did the shopping because of their love for the Residents and wanting to bring them a touch of Christmas joy ❤️ May all that we do and say each day be done in love for our beautiful and loving Lord and in caring for all His loved ones💕 

 At the moment, we are getting quotes to have our roof gutters cleaned. We have been reading adverts describing each of the companies, and one specialises in removing birds nests! I feel soooo sorry for the birds and their little baby birds! The birds would have also put in so much special time and  work into creating a snug birth place for their little babies.  

  Our loving and beautiful Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father loves us and watches over us like a protective bird. Through the stormy weather of life, they are with us to comfort and encourage us. They are with us all the time and gently hold us close to them,in their arms ❤️

  I was watching a tv show the other day and someone was playing a calliope musical instrument. I hadn’t seen one before and it was very interesting! It has pipes which the music comes out of and is played a bit like an organ or a piano.

    There are lots of different types of musical instruments that we can play to enjoy making music! They all sound different but are all lovely. It is wonderful that our loving Lord has given us lots of ways to use music to praise and glorify Him. We can’t all play music very well, but we can all praise in in our hearts with tunes of love ❤️

 Dad had quite a job last week when buying a carton of eggs at Coles! Before buying the carton of eggs, he opened it up and found that 3 of them were already cracked, with yolk running out of them! He then opened other cartons up, and found that they had broken shell eggs in them too! Eventually he found a carton with 12 full intact, unbroken eggs! Dad was also telling me the other day about a lady who he had heard speaking on the radio. She had rang the radio program to say that she had bought a carton of eggs and each one of them was a double yolk! That was quite amazing!     We are nearing Christmastime now. But each day of the year we enjoy the special significance of both Christmastime and Easter in our daily lives. Eggs are a symbol of new life, and our lives are filled with the love of our Lord as we trust and rest in Him, as day by day  we live in  and for Him. He will protect us under His wings ❤️

  Dad was so very surprised the other day to find in our backyard a pot of little “Johnny jump up” flowers that must have self sown from last year, as Dad hadn’t planted any in a pot where he found them! Johnny jump ups are very little flowers that cause much cheerfulness to everyone who sees them. Sometimes when we are in pain or feeling a little sad or tired, we need  something to “jump up” ourselves. It is very special that our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father have given us beautiful  flowers to look at, as a reminder of their precious love ❤️

  We have been trying out all sorts of varieties of apples lately! My usual favourite is Royal Gala, but over the last weeks we have also been “testing” out Modi, Envy and Eve apples! They all have their own special taste, bite and flavour. It is quite amazing that apples are still apples but they all taste a bit different. It is just like us. We all live together in this world and have eyes, ears, nose and bodies, but we are all different. We like different things, have different things that we are good or not too good at doing, have different ways of doing things, but we have all been lovingly created by our loving Lord. Our loving Heavenly Father and loving Lord Jesus uniquely knows us, loves us and cares for us, and has a loving plan in our lives day by day ❤️