I thought that this photo of the Fire wave in the Valley of Fire State Park in Las Vegas was  quite amazing and beautifully scenic! It looks so special! Our loving Lord has given us such special natural landscapes for us to enjoy seeing! I hadn't heard of the Fire Wave Valley before, and just happened to see a picture of it the other day on the Internet. May we give praise and thanks to our loving Creator God! ❤️

I received a Christmas card during the last week and the person who sent it hand wrote this special message on it : “ May you  have a tableful of

blessings with Jesus as the Centrepiece” I thought that was very nice! I hope that each of you have a very lovely Christmastime, resting and rejoicing in the loving care of our loving and beautiful Lord! ❤️💖💜

Poinsettias are very nice Christmas flowers! I was reading the other day why poinsettias are associated with Christmas. “ The  shape of the poinsettia flower and leaves are sometimes thought as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to Jesus. The red colored leaves symbolize the blood of Christ. The white leaves represent his purity” They such vibrant  joyful -looking flowers! May the joy of this Christmastime being encouragement to you both now and throughout all the year! ❤️💖💐💛

  It will soon be Christmas Day! There will be so very, very many mince pies eaten over the next couple of  weeks! The little foil tin cases that many mince pies come in could be moulded into a suit of armour, that could then be worn if you need to go outdoors in the midst of a hailstorm! Sometimes we may feel like we are “ battling” a little bit with our health, tiredness and pain. May we remember that we have an “ armour of love” on! Love from our loving Lord Jesus, love from our loved family and friends, and love that beats from inside, as regular as a heart beat ❤️💖💚💜💙🧡

 I was reading something on the Internet the other  day, and the word “sublime” was used. It sounds such a grand and lofty word! It evokes pictures of whiteness and gold! It is not a word that I would use when just chatting with someone! 

The most important, most nicest and most special  words in the whole wide world are : “ I love you”! Love sustains us, encourages us, comforts us, and gives us the strength we need to face each hour and day! May we always tell out loved ones that we love  them! ❤️💚💙💜💖

 I have a feeling that Dad has done this before also!  He has been growing in little pots  zucchini plants from seeds, and now that they have started to sprout, he wanted to transfer them over from the pots  to the ground to grow. He went and did some gardening outside after tea, and I think that he must have been clearing around the area where he planted the seeds as he was using his shears also. After transplanting the zucchini plants shoots , he decided to then come indoors. But he couldn’t find his pair of shears anywhere to put  away! He searched all over the garden trying to find them! He then just had to “ give up” searching and come indoors ! The next day, he walked through our back door...and straightaway saw the shears on the pegs container! He doesn’t know why he placed them there or why he didn’t see that they were there the previous night! 

   We are always growing as we live our day by day lives in this world. However young or old we are, we are continuing to learn new things every day, and are discovering more things. Just talking to other people, keeps us growing inside. When the time comes for us to be “ transplanted” ( like zucchini plants) to our Heavenly home, we have a very loving  Gardener Heavenly Father who will so very lovingly and caringly take us to His home ❤️

   I like the quote saying:  “ To the world you were one, but to me you were the world” . Our loved ones are so very, very precious and special to us, both those who remain with us as well as those who have passed away ❤️ You are all such very uniquely  special and lovely people! You are very muchly loved by your loved ones, and are so very precious to our loving Lord and Saviour Jesus! 

I think that this elephant picture is so cute! The elephant has his trunk out to eat an apple! 

Elephants have very good memories!        

   May we too take delight in remembering happy past time, enjoy experiencing whatever the present day holds, and look into the future with hope, encouraged that we are kept safe in our Loving Lord’s loving care.  He never ever forgets us❤️💖🧡

Scones are a comfort food associated with  morning or afternoon tea! If there was a survey on “ classic foods”  that a morning / afternoon tea contains, scones would be high up on the list of foods chosen! May we “spread” love very thickly on the lives of our loved ones and the people we see each day , just like jam and cream ! There are a number of jam varieties, so there also is a great variety of ways to express loving care and kindness to others ❤️💙💚💖💛🧡 May you enjoy eating a scone and spreading love during this week! ❤️

This was from a Chirpings that I wrote at the start of October

 Today is the first day of the new month! We wonder what each new day of the month will hold. The first few letters of the month is the same as an Octopus, which has a lot of legs! May we reach out to others  with our two hands to show loving care and kindness in what we say and what we do. A “thinking of you” message in spoken or written words brings much encouragement to the heart of another person! Some people when they have been  sick in hospital  have found that when a visitor has held their hands, it has brought comfort to them. May we always know that we are held tightly in the loving hands of our loving Lord Jesus ❤️💖💚💛 His pierced hands are beautiful! 

Mum is very good at Sudoku puzzles ! She is very clever how she works them out! She has a Sudoku magazine /book that is called : “ One a Day”. There are 365 sudoku puzzles in the book, one for each day of the year! She tries though to do more than one a day! Our loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father loves and cares for us 365 days a year, and 24 hours! They are always watching over us, seeing our tears, our smiles, our sighs, our pain and our joys. May we  rest in Their loving tender care, knowing that we are looked after each step of  the day in our lives here and eternally ❤️🧡💛💚💙

A friend of ours  was recently visiting Malta and  sent us a postcard whilst he was away.  The design on the Maltese stamps were “ traditional floor tile

patterns”. I thought that was an uniquely different design to have on a stamp. It looked very ornate! Through our lives, we enjoy the seasonal “pattern”  of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Springtime through the years. The order and continual constant change of the seasons, keeps going on and on. The love of our Loving Lord is also constant. Through each day, each season, all circumstances and in every situation whatever is happening in our lives, His love for us remains, and is the strength that we need for each day❤️❤️ Rest in His love 💖❤️💜🧡💙💛💚

Butterflies are so very pretty! They appear in such a wide variety of colours and patterns! They are often called “ flutter-bys” also, which is a play on the word. They are very special insects that bring beauty into the world, though sadly they only live for such a short while. Our beautiful and loving Lord, have painted a special design on each of them. He cares about us so very tenderly and lovingly, and wants to paint a very special and colourful design on the canvas of our lives also 💜❤️💛💙🧡🦋🦋🦋

This coming Friday is Daffodil Day which supports the Cancer Council. Daffodils are very special , joyful flowers ! They bring with them the message of Hope. Just looking at them brings joy to our day! May we all be encouraged as we look at a real life daffodil or a picture of them, and look upward just like a daffodil  does 💛💛

I have two of the most funniest dolls I’ve ever known or seen that are on the  shelf near where I spend a lot of my day!  They make me smile every time I look at  them! They are not “ pretty” according to the world’s standard definition, but to me they are beautiful! They have pink skin, purple and pink hair, a pink nose, big blue eyes and very wide open mouths! Each part of them also reminds me of things! Their pink skin colour reminds me that no matter what our skin colour is we are loved by loving Lord,  are all precious in His sight, and our lives are very valued!  He died for us all! Their big blue eyes remind me to look at others through “ love eyes” and to try to  be open to “ see”   how they may be feeling. Their  wide open mouths encourage me to be thankful,  to express thanks and to  speak or write words to show that I care. Their coloured hair, reminds me that the Lord said He knows every strand of our hair! ( And it doesn’t matter if we have pink, purple or blue hair !) 

Life is like a shopping trolley! We have fruit in the trolley, which is the love of our beautiful loving Lord and of our loved and loving family and friends. We have chocolate biscuits, which is the fun occasions and events that happen at       times through our lives. There is a bottle of milk, which is when we learning new things, just like milk helps kids in their growth as they are progressing through childhood. A loaf of bread is in the trolley also! Bread is the ordinary, everyday things that occur in a day, BUT even with these everyday things, they are so often spread thick with butter  and jam, which is the little blessings that we enjoy as they pop up though the day, especially if we take the time to look with our heart-eyes and see them. Butter is made from milk and cream. It needs to be beaten and churned to make butter. We sometimes also feel a bit “ battered” in our own lives! Live holds times of pain, weariness, and harder times. We endure through it! May your shopping trolley consist of many colourful packaged products, to reflect the everyday beauty of life! ❤️

 After the recent rescue of the soccer team of boys in Thailand, I read that the boys found the Australian accent of Doctor Harry, who is an Australian doctor / diver, to be reassuring and calming. I thought that was very nice❤️. It is very true in our own day by day lives also! When we hear the voice of our loved ones, it can help to ease us if we are feeling a bit upset inside. We can recognise the voice of our loved in a mixture of voices in a room. Just hearing a family member or friend say “ hello” or “ good morning”, can make such a big difference to how we are feeling that day! Often also, people whose loved ones have passed away, say that they still “ hear” them “ talking” in a myriad of ways. May our voices be a loving help to all that we are in contact with today ❤️

Mr. Oliver, my teddy bear, looks nice and warm with his fur! But he was telling me that he still feels quite chilly! And it is an awful situation if he gets caught in the rain without an umbrella! His  fur goes quite odd! What really matters in life is more than outwards skin that we are in. That skin gets tired, bruised, sometimes burnt by hot water or the sun. It  becomes quite icy and goosebumpy due to cold weather air. Underneath it all, our spirit is dancing! Our spirit isn’t tired or weary or painful. It is the true us, in all of the beauty in the way that our Lord made each person in the world! 

We are  now over half way through Winter! I was thinking about the letters in Winter and they can capture many important parts of our day to day lives! Life can sometimes feel a little “ jumbled” , so the letters are also! W stands for “We” . It is good that we have family and friends to share our walk through life, to  be “Encouraged”  by and to “Encourage”  through the “Everyday”  things. It is quite amazing how little unexpected things pop up in our day, just completely out-of -the -blue, to “Inspire” us! Sometimes I am on the Internet and reading the pages,  when all of a sudden a lovely picture appears  , or a person has posted about something that has happened that day that encourages me. May we take encouragement from the lives of those around us or that we are in contact with that day! The Every “ New’” day brings with it special little and big blessings! May we see with our inner eyes these blessings!  Being “ Told” that we are loved and are being “Thought” of, and the delight  in ourselves   “Telling’ others, is a hugely important part of life. “ Real” life holds happy, sad, tiring, encouraging and painful times. Throughout it all, love Is eternal! It is like the palm of a hand  carrying us through! 

       I was watching a very cute advert video for Amazon on the internet the other day! It started with a lady at the train station waiting for her train. She got out her red lipstick to do her lips again on the train platform...the only thing was that the red lipstick was actually a red crayon that she mistakenly brought instead! Then at the top of the screen, an amazon search bar appeared, and she typed in “ L for lipstick” to search on Amazon to buy some new lipstick. Then straight away a kindergarten /child care centre scene was shown. This had a picture of a little boy with lipstick all over his face and trying to draw a picture  using the lipstick! Then the Amazon search bar said “F is for face wipers” !! 

There are so many different shades of lipstick colours, and each lipstick colour  has a uniquely different name! It is a bit like people in that everyone is  uniquely  different , and everyone brings their own special touch of beautiful colour to the lives of  those whom they  are with that day or are contact with ❤️ Thankyou to each of you for your lovely colour that you bring into the world ❤️ 

Hello ❤️ This was what I wrote in my Chirpings a few weeks ago.

 Usually new  flowers don’t start to appear when Wintertime arrives, but Mum has a hanging basket ( which has been put into a pot instead as it works out better, as we don’t really have a place to “ hang” hanging baskets and look outside to see them ! This “ hanging basket in a garden pot” is now just outside our side glass windows, and we can enjoy seeing it! ) , and all of a sudden lovely orange flowers have appeared on it! It is a special touch of colour on a cold, grey, cloudy  and darkish skies day! 

  May we also bring a touch of colour into the day by day lives of our loved family, friends, people we may see that day, or strangers that are just waiting to be met and share a little chat with! Every one has their own  type of pain, struggles, and issues they are coping with and enduring through, and we may never know what a smile, an encouraging word, an empathising little chat, or a special “ I”m thinking of you. I care ..” message by words or action  has done to lift the inside of how another person is feeling! 

This week we officially enter Wintertime. Winter isn’t really my favourite season of a the year! It is a cold weather time, and when looking through the windows the outdoors looks a bit “bleak”! But for other people, Winter is their favourite time  of the year! They go skiing , or visit the snow, or just enjoy spending time in front of a log fire. Though the outdoors areas of our homes may look grey, we are  colourful inside ourselves! I like to think that tears that we sometimes have inside us are then mixed with the warmth of the love of our loving Lord to form a colourful  rainbow inside us! May we draw comfort and strength from His love, through all the Wintery, Summery, Springy and Autumny days of our lives! 

 For Mothers Day, I gave Mum two golden spoons that I ordered online from the Internet. There are flowers on the ends of the spoons, in the shape of a

pansy and a sunflower. They look very pretty! Mum can use them when having her dessert at meals! True love doesn’t come in “ spoonfuls” . Deep down love is constant through the good times, hard times, painful times, happy times, sad times  and tiring times. It doesn’t add artificial “ sugar” or a “sugarine/sacharrine/sweetener” to life. It instead has deep down heart felt concern, care and empathy, and expresses itself in a multitude of deeply sincere and beautiful ways. To love and be loved is the greatest blessing in the whole wide world, and in all eternity!

❤️🌷🌷🌷HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! 🌷🌷🌷🌷❤️

Mums are so very special ! <3 They may no longer hold our hands as we cross a busy street but they always hold us deeply in their hearts ❤️❤️

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their new little son! Kate has given birth to a little baby boy ❤️  The arrival of a new little baby is a very special time in the life of a family! It is a time of joy, thankfulness and delight! Each new little child comes into the world with so many things to explore,  learn about, see, hear, touch, feel, listen to and experience in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. May we never, ever lose the childlike wonder that is inside us, that keeps us wanting to learn about or experience  new things each day! May we keep childlike eyes , as we live day by day! ❤️

     I can remember when I was a little girl, that I  thought that the saying “ a laugh is a smile that has burst” was so funny! I am not sure why, but then and now I always think of watermelons when I think of that phrase! It is great to have a laugh! Sometimes life seems a little sad, and we are in a lot of pain. Then all of a sudden completely unexpectedly something makes us laugh! It is so funny that often when someone else starts to laugh, it contagiously makes us laugh also! May laugher leap into your lives this week! 😄😄😄

 We received an email from Coles the other day, listing their specials for the week. At the bottom of the page, they advertised a new product that they are selling now. It is ... strawberry trifle! It looked so very delicious! Mum and Dad decided to buy one and “ taste test” it themselves! Dad went down to Coles the following morning to get the trifle, which they thought would be yummy to have as a dessert for lunch. Hmm....the trifle is frozen and you need to thaw it in the fridge for 24 hour’s! It was a “delayed” taste test, until the next day but the verdict was...delicious! I am not “ into” trifles so I didn’t eat it but Mum and Dad really enjoyed it! 

  The Strawberry trifle was made up of strawberries, sponge cake , jelly, cream and custard. Trifles are a little bit like life! The sponge cake is our everyday life that we enjoy living day by day. The strawberries are the little joyful blessings that pop into our life unexpectedly, as sometimes strawberry trifle doesn’t contain berries and sometimes it does! Jelly is clear, and reflects water. Water is vital for life and living, and in the same way love is so very vital for living also! The love of our loving Lord, and  the love of our loved ones, family and friends. The cream is the “ dollops”  of things that occur in our lives, that add a richness to our daily living. Life is beautiful and we are so rich when we take the time to stop and appreciate all that we have. The custard is the painful “ stodgy” experiences that we have. Custard can taste awful if it is lumpy! The awful painful times in our life are much easier to endure, if like custard they stirred up with a spoon of love, faith and hope ❤️

I think that McDonalds restaurants all over the country would have been very busy with people travelling home on Easter Monday, and the travellers calling in for an easy and quick meal on the way home. As I am writing this, I can actually smell a burger aroma! It is funny how just thinking of things evokes smells, which then leads to memories of happy or sad or exciting or glad times spent doing things, when those aromas were present. Meals are special parts of the day! They are just not ingredients that enter our mouths!  There has been someone who has taken the time to prepare the meal, mix ingredients, cook the meal and serve it . Food preparation is a service act of love! It is a blessing we enjoy everyday! May we be daily thankful for the love expressed through meals when someone cooks for us! ❤️

  When the sun shines through a window it brings warmth to our body. When a loved one says “hello”  to us, it brings warmth to our spirit and soul ❤️ May loving  warmth  surround your heart today! May  both memories of your loved ones who have  passed away as well as those physically with you bring you much special warmth, encompassed by the love of our Lord ❤️

 I was looking at the hand/body washes  at Coles online the other day, and there are lots of special flavours! Two of them are “ cherry blossom” and “ rose and cherry”. The sound of them is very nice! Life contains many “perfumed” moments! Someone may say something to us or do something for us, or we may see something that we think is lovely, or we our hearts may be touched for a million multitude reasons, and the “ perfume” of that special moment keeps remaining with us to encourage us. May you have many perfume moments this week ❤️

I was listening to the weather forecast on tv one  night a few weeks ago and the weather person told us that the next days would have temperatures ranging between 22-28. The Weather Bureau was labeling it a “ mild wave”! Not a “ heat wave” or a “ cold snap”!  

      It is encouraging when someone “waves”  their hands  at us in a friendly way! It is a little “ hello” gesture, and it is usually when someone is a little distance away and so can’t  call out an audible greeting. When we see flower petals or  leaves blowing and “ waving”  in the wind , may it remind us of our  Loving Lord who created them, and be reminded that He is watching over us, dearly loves us, and is waving to us in love in a  million ways through the day ❤️ 

 Happy April time! 🌸🦋There is a proverb that says April showers leads to May flowers. Sometimes teardrops and weeping leads to a beautiful garden of flower petals encircling our heart. It is through the hard times in our days and our  life we seem to even more seek to rest in and rely on the little everyday blessings that come in our lives, and love tenderly carries us through, like a secure hand holding us in its  palm ❤️

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️HAPPY EASTER❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

He has risen! He has risen indeed!

 The Winter Olympics is being held in South Korea at the moment. I think that some of  the sports would be quite scary, when coming down at such high speeds in the snow! You can’t  really “ close your eyes and hope for the best” ! There are many injuries that take place, with the speed levels that are reached. 

     Our lives are lovingly watched over by our loving Lord. Whether time speeds past, or just slowly tick tocks along,there is not  a teardrop that He doesn’t see or a pain that He doesn’t empathise with. Through the cold chilly weather conditions of the Winter Olympics, and the sunny sunshine weather of the Summer Olympics, His love is eternal ❤️

  It is Valentines Day next week! ❤️ Every day life is so  very special as we give out and receive love from our loved ones! Love has a beautiful  inner strength to carry us when we are physically, mentally and emotionally weary and tired. We are held so very,very tightly and securely  in the palm of our beautiful loving Lord’s hands. 

    I was reading in the Herald Sun the other day that SPC is selling their IXL brand of jams. They are going to sell it to an Australian owned company, so the business will remain in Australia. They are selling it as they said that people aren’t using as much jam as they used to! I don’t know if that is quite correct! I think that lots and lots of people still enjoy having scones, jam and cream , and a piece of toast for breakfast with thickly spread jam on it is very much enjoyed by many people to start their day! I can literally smell the nice aroma of freshly cooked toast right now! 

   Toast is a very special part of breakfast time for many people all around the world! It is very easy to cook and is a reliable form of energy  food to  “kick start” our days! Everyone has their own special preference as to how much it is toasted /burnt! It is an “ everyday comfort food” ! Life contains many “everyday blessings”! Talking and being with our loved ones, having the sunshine come in through a window onto us, hearing a bird chirping outside, and looking at the colourful floral and leafy world we live in are day by day very special experiences. May we take delight and comfort  in these lovely everyday joys ❤️❤️