Mum once told me  about the way my grandpa played the piano as he was left handed. I  hadn’t really thought about it, that being left or right handed can affect the way you play music. He played more chords/was stronger with his left hand and played the melodies more with his left hand. Dad started using his hands to play piano and organ music when he was very young, and has played for so many years ever since! I started to think about “hands”  and how we are lovingly in our Lord Jesus’ and Heavenly Father’s hands ( John 10)  The “everlasting arms” surround us. The most loving arms and hands were wide open on a cross many years ago ❤️

      Many years ago, Mum bought me an advent calendar pop-up book. Each year since I have  enjoyed  opening up each pop-up each day, with two pages to a page. It relates to parts of the Bible and the drawings are really lovely. It is very exciting that while these 25 pop-ups lead to the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ,we already know about His birth, death, resurrection and accession! We know the love,joy and peace that was brought to the world by His birth, and though in our daily life often things unexpected do “pop-up”, we can be greatly assured that our Loving Heavenly Father and our loving Lord Jesus who is our Saviour, are constantly caring,loving and protecting❤️.( The 25^th pop-up is a panorama of the stable) 

     Recently there has been a new little baby Asian elephant born at the Melbourne Zoo!  She is due to be named during this week.  Zoo Victoria members  have been invited to vote on  the new name. The 3 cute choices are :  Aiyara (elephant), Chaiyo (cheers) or Roi-Yim (smile). Even though she is a baby, she would still be about a thousand times bigger and heavier than a human baby! 

    This is a cute picture of an elephant, with a little bird and pretty butterflies. It is amazing and lovely that our Loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father created all creatures great and small! From the big elephant to the tiny butterfly…He creatively and lovingly made them all!