My chirpings as a sparrow! I have been doing “ Chirpings from a Strathalan Sparrow” for many years. I have always ended with an encouraging paragraph. I have decided to post some of these paragraphs on this blog. I hope that they may encourage anyone who reads them
I got a surprise when I was in the kitchen the other day and saw a bowl of strawberries on the table! They were very nice and big ripe red ones! I didn’t know that it was the time for strawberries to appear! But... they were there in the bowl! I thought that they were more a Summer season fruit!
We have a big plastic container of lavender disinfectant on a shelf in our laundry.It is a Coles brand disinfectant and when used, the lavender smell is lovely! Lavender has a beautiful aroma and fragrance! It is like our Loving Lord’s love. His love fragrances our lives! When we are in pain, tired, feeling unwell, the fragrance of his love envelops and enfolds us even more, as we rest in His love ❤️
Carrot flowers are very pretty! They look like white snowflakes! They are the flowers that sprout from carrots that aren’t dug up for a while. Many years ago, I remember some carrot flowers that sprouted in our garden! They were so beautiful! It is amazing that our loving Lord can create such a beautiful flower from a simple sprouted carrot! Even more than that, He cares so much about us! He makes everyone with much beauty and watches over us each day!
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Lately there has been an advert on the tv for jars of Australian made peanut butter. It seems to be on the tv each day! I am wondering if the makers of the peanut butter think that with most people needing to stay at home due to the virus situation, everyone is having peanut butter sandwiches?! It brought back memories of when Mum and I used to cook peanut butter cookies for her to take with her for morning tea for the ladies at the Craft Group she attended. The recipe used a whole jar of peanut butter, and so our kitchen had such aroma of peanut butter whilst we were making. cooking and cooling off the cookies! It was a very easy recipe though! You just needed to combine the peanut butter with some sugar and an egg, then shape the cookies into round balls, and bake them in the oven!
Often when we hear things said or are reading the newspaper, something reminds us of something else that happened at an earlier time. It brings back special memories! When I see or hear the word “ kindness” I think back when I was a little girl and heard the word “ lovingkindness” said in a bible verse. I thought ( and still do!) that it was a lovely warm and beautiful word! To me, it seemed to be full of sunshine and warmth, with it being a big bundle of love and kindness combined together! May our love for our Loving Lord be a big part of kind actions or words that we do and say each and every day!
I had a little giggle to myself the other day when I read a news story about free doughnuts! There is a company who sells doughnuts online, and delivers them to customers at their home. To support and encourage everyone to stay home, the company is delivering free packs of their doughnuts five times each week! People can leave their address details on the site, and 5 people are randomly chosen! But... they do need to be home when the doughnuts arrive or they are not left! They are also called : “Houghnuts” instead of “doughnuts” as they are considered to be “healthy doughnuts”! They are “Gluten free. Vegan. Refined Sugar free. Baked not fried” !!
This brought back lovely happy memories of when I was a little girl, and I belonged to the Woolworths “ donut club”!! I had a little card, and each weekend you could take it to the Woolworths Bakery, get it stamped and receive 2 free cinammon doughnuts! I think they did this to encourage the rest of the family to buy other items from the bakery section of Woolworths at the same time! Cinnamon donuts have such a lovely aroma when they are warm! I always thought that it was cute that donut holes were sold also!
Donuts remind me of love! They are shaped as a circle and have no end! It is like we are in the empty middle area of the dough, being hugged. Love is eternal! The love of our loving Heavenly Father and our Lord is eternal, forever and ever and includes right now! Unlike a soft donut though, love is strong. It endures through all that the day and our lives hold! It is strengthening and encouraging!
