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!