Daylight Savings starts next weekend. As the saying goes : “Spring forward, Fall back” which means that we put our clocks forward an hour.  Sometimes life feels quite hard, tiring and painful, but we are comforted that our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father are with us and watching over us every moment and minute. One day there will be no time,hours or minutes. We will spend eternity in loving love with those we love so much❤️ 

        I was reading an encouraging story the other day. It was about a time during one of the wars, and a small amount of a Christian hymn book compiled by Ira Sankey called : “Sacred Songs and Solos” were sent to the battleground, where the soldiers were fighting. “ As soldiers met fellow soldiers that were members of another fighting company troop that they knew, they would say :   “Four-nine-four, boys; four-nine-four;” and the salute would invariably be answered with “Six further on, boys; six further on.” The significance of this was that, in ‘Sacred Songs and Solos,’ a number of copies of the small edition of which had been sent to the front, number 494 was ‘God be with you till we meet again’; and six further on than 494, or number 500, was ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine’”  (Hymnal  article) 

   It brings much comfort and encouragement to our hearts that yes, our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father are always with us, and we rest in the triumphant assurance that “Jesus is mine” and loves us ❤️

     Dad was telling me the other day about when dollars notes were introduced after the end of pounds, shillings and pence. He was working at the Commonwealth Bank and he was in charge of training the bank tellers how to hand out the new one, two,five, ten, twenty,fifty and hundred dollar notes. For practising they used “play money”,not the real actual money! 

Life is worth more than money. Love is the most important thing. To be loved by our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father carries us through each minute of the day, through the joys and tears. May we rest in their loving care❤️

  Mum’s cousin (who passed away quite a few years ago ,but I have been especially thinking of her as it would have been her birthday this week ) has a son who is a sculptor. He is so artistic and creative! He has helped to run many art galleries and art exhibitions over the years, and runs classes now also to help young people who are wanting to learn how to sculpt.

   We are all creations of our Loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father. They are sculpting our lives, through all the good, hard, tiring, happy, sad and painful experiences that our lives have held, currently hold, and will hold in the future. Until we are called to our love filled heavenly  Home, our lives will continually be sculpted by them❤️