This year is a leap year, so  we have an extra day this week! I hope you have a beautiful day on the 29th! Each day is special! There is always something each day that happens or we see or we hear that makes us feel thankful and blessed! Just like a physical heartbeat our spirit gives a little “leap” of thankful joy! 

   

We have had a problem with the taps in our kitchen. The water isn’t leaking, but it is just a bit hard to completely turn them off! They want to keep dripping!  Eventually Dad called the  “ Service Today” company that does plumbing as well as other work and a plumber came and fixed the washers on our taps! He said the taps were old though and that he would “ do what he could” and hoped that it would fix it!

   Our lives may sometimes feel like those taps. We may have many outward or inward tears as we endure through pain, tiredness  or are missing loved ones who have gone ahead to our heavenly home. Our loving Lord tenderly watches over us, wraps a gentle invisible arm around us and quietly whispers: “ I care ...I understand” ❤️

 Valentines Day is this week! It is a special day to say : “ I LOVE YOU” to someone that is special to you. We can though say it every day!  But it is also very nice to have a special day to say an extra I Love you! ❤️💖❤️💕❤️💖 

The Day that our loving Lord died for us was an extra special day where He showed His love! His arms were wide open on the cross, saying that He loves us this much! 

When we had the stormy weather the other day, there was a big lightning strike, and we lost our  electricity! It was off for quite a few hours! It was a bit odd but the next day, Dad went to get some ice cream from a tub that is in the freezer part of our fridge ... but there was no ice cream in the tub! It had melted and “ escaped” through a crack in the tub and had leaked all over the freezer shelf! It was a mess! 

       May we also have hearts that have been “ melted” and give out love ❤️Loving words, Loving actions, Loving care in a million ways is the main part of living! May we do these  under the shelter of the  beautiful wings of love of our loving Lord ❤️

      Last week on New Year’s Day, we had our annual “ new calendars putting up” time! We had a few that we were given for Christmas, as well as the Banyule Council and a chemist one. Then came the BIG decisions! Which calendar would be best placed in which room! They all had lovely and pretty pictures! 

    Just like a calendar, our life is made up of pictures of our lives as we travel through the months and years. Even in the sad times, our life pictures are pretty as there is always the comfort of our beautiful loving Lord right beside us, seeing every tear and making his caring smile mix with our tears to make a rainbow of love to surround our inner spirit ❤️

  I think that this picture of the animals at the stable is lovely! They are looking over the manger with their own adoration to the newly born King ❤️May we all rejoice in our hearts each day as we praise our loving Lord, Savior and King! 💗

 Dad was going outside to pick up our mail the other day and saw that our neighbour’s peace rose was in bloom. He took a picture of it so that I could see it. It is very beautiful. ❤️

More beautiful than a rose is each of you ❤️    Inner beauty expresses itself through loving care for others, through  being willing to listen, in seeking to encourage, in showing 

kindness in many , many ways! We have a loving Heavenly Father and loving Lord Jesus who look into our hearts, just like we look at the heart of a rose and they  love us 💗 May we rest in their love.

 Butterflies are so lovely! They come in such a wide variety of colours and all of them are so pretty! Our loving Lord paints each one of them! He knows each one of them as they are His creation! How much more He cares about us! He knows our sighs, our tears, our joys, and everything that happens in our lives! 

We had a huge big bolt of lightning and a very thunderous bang of thunder  over our home the other day! It completely shook our home! It gave us such a fright! It happened around about 7 a.m. whilst Dad and I were up and Mum was in bed . After we calmed down, we went about doing out normal things through the day. Then, when it came to late afternoon and we turned on the tv to watch a  tv show and the news...we couldn’t get the tv to work! It was just a black screen! We tried lots of ways to troubleshoot the issue but nothing helped! The lightening and thunder was so very strong that it broke our tv! Goodbye tv, and hello new tv the next day! It was  such powerful lightning and thunder that we experienced! 

       Lightning and thunder reminds me of our Loving Heavenly Father and our Lord❤️They are with us in the stormy times of our lives, They send the majestic lightning bolts,and the powerful hugely loud thunder! They also talk to us in a whisper and say: “ I love you.  I know your tiredness and pain. I am with you and care about you” ❤️

I saw these cute girls pictures the other day on the Internet! I think that they are sweet! Their feet are all turned in towards each other! They may though  fall over if they decide to go dancing! We may find walking a little hard due to our health. We can be encouraged though that we are in the loving hands of our loving Lord who carries us through each day and right throughout our lives. He holds us very securely and lovingly. May we rest in his loving care ❤️

 Hello Goldilocks! Hello Three Bears! This picture is so cute! 

I was thinking about teddies the other day, and how Everyone likes teddies! We have all had a teddy sometime  in our lives or given a teddy a smile or a hug! They are often very “ tattered” from so much hugging or carrying around! But the more tattered they are, the more precious they seem to become! 

        May we be encouraged  when we also feel a bit “ tattered”, weary and tired. Our loving Lord loves us so very much, and we are precious to Him. He hugs us each day! ❤️

 I thought  that this picture of the sleeping baby was very beautiful! She looks so peaceful! Every life is so very precious! You are so very much loved by our loving Lord! He knows all about you and watches over us all through the day! Sending hugs to you all❤️

  These dogs look so happy! Just having a look at them makes me smile! 😀

Very often, it is the little things that brighten the hearts and lives of other people that we are with or our own lives in response to the loving kindness of another person. A little smile, a gentle word of encouragement, a caring look, a  little “ I’m thinking of you, and I care” means so very much, more than words can say. It is love in action! It also reflects in a little sense that extra abundant love that our loving Lord has for us 💖

  These animal pictures are so very colourful! They are very cheerful and bright! Sometimes over the Wintertime, when the skies looks  grey and there isn’t as much daylight, the world can seem a little grey. At that time, it is nice to look at photos of real life beautiful creations that the Master Painter has created and painted, such as flowers, sunsets and fruit, and our response is a joyful candle in our heart!