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! 

 I was looking the other day at pictures of the Aurora Borealis ( Northern lights ) and Aurora Australis (Southern lights ) and they are very beautiful! The sky  looks so very lovely with the blue, green,yellow, pink colors! The sky looks so very magestic! It is really beautiful! 

I started thinking and it struck me that it is just a tiny glimpse into the majesty and glory of our beautiful loving Lord! May we praise Him every day! And He deeply loves us! 

    It is bit “frustrating” when you lose something, and you spend ages and ages looking for it...then discover that it was exactly where you always keep it! This happened to me the other day! My eyes must have kept overlooking it! I was at the same time glad that I found what I had lost!

    Our Loving Lord watches over us all the time! He will never ever lose us! He knows what we are going through and how we are feeling, and gently cares for us and gives us the strength we need to face each hour. May His love for us always and forever and ever encourage us ❤️

  Dad has been getting  tins of diced beetroot from Coles lately. I am not sure if it is new product or not, because I thought that you only could buy beetroot sliced, not diced! He has it in salads. I am always a bit “wary” of beetroot as I don’t want to drop it as it is hard to remove beetroot stains! 

    Our Loving Lord wants to leave His love as  a “ beetroot stain” on our hearts! He loves each one of us so very much! His love encompasses our day and life, and we see His loving blessings  in many, many ways through our day. Just like the beetroot is “diced” so the month is also “diced” into days and we can be thankful for new blessings each and every day! ❤️

I was looking at pictures of pretty butterflies the other day, and as I looked   at them their colours  reminded me again of how beautiful they are! It is quite amazing that our loving Lord paints each one! Our loving Lord works his lovely artistic touch on each one! At the same time, His love touches our lives, and when His love mixes with inside tears that we may have due  to pain,our walk through  life becomes full of His colourful majestic touch through each day ❤️

Mum has been enjoying having apricot jam on toast. As she liked it, she been having it a bit thickly on the toast. But lately her skin has been irritated. We then discovered that she was allergic to an ingredient in the jam! This was making her feel not too good! 

        Our loving beauty Lord “ spreads us thickly”  with His love every day! He cares about every part of our  life and covers it all like jam with His love. His love is a million times sweeter than jam ❤️

It was so very great when we heard news that the teen who was lost on Mt. Disappointment last week had been found! I was using my iPad when all of a sudden a news alert came over the top of the screen announcing the happy news.  People all around the country were so very glad! It really showed that people are very caring about what is happening in the lives of others, Most people didn’t know the boy, yet we were all very concerned for his welfare and so very glad and relieved when he was found! May we all  care for each other and all that their lives are holding, Knowing that others are supporting you in prayers and thoughts  gives strength in all that life is holding ❤️

This month’s picture on the Council calendar is a picture of an ice covered flower! It is completely covered in ice! It looks so very pretty! But... it makes me feel chilly when I look at it! The sun would have probably “ thawed” it out very soon though. The sun is still there on Winter days, just hiding behind clouds! Smiles are just like “ mini rays of sunshine” !😀 They  bring warmth to all who see and receive one from another person! The person who smiles feels the warmth also! Our loving Lord sends smiles of love to us. We don’t see his smiles,but feel His warmth and love ❤️May we give smiles to others and bring warmth to their day! 😀

Wintertime is here! It is a good time for eating soup,sitting near the  fireplace or heater, and reading books! We don’t experience snow where we live or have snowflakes, but pictures of snowflakes are so very pretty! Our loving Lord displays his beautiful artistry in every snowflake that falls from the sky! You are all snowflakes also! Each of you are very pretty inside, and that shines through in all you do. Just like the snowflakes, our loving Lord expressed His lovely artistry when he made you! ❤️❤️💗💕💖 He cares so very, very much about you! 

      I enjoy having cornflakes for breakfast each morning. I was thinking the other day that it is not a “ fancy” breakfast cereal,BUT  there are millions of people all around the world, just like me, who enjoy eating cornflakes each day! It is like life. The most main “basic” things  in life are love and faith, and they give richness to life! They endure through hard, happy, struggling, joyful, laughter, weeping times, and the “  milk” poured on top of it of the cornflakes are the everyday little blessings that our loving Lord sends from above ❤️

  When Mum used to cook pikelets,she used to have a teatowel that she kept to cover over the cooked  pikelets as she was cooking, to keep them nice. It was fun seeing her adding to the pile, then covering them with the teatowel! The teatowel had a lovely baked aroma which was very warming and homely! Even now when I see that teatowel, I can smell the warm homely   pikelets smell! 

    The love of our loving Lord and of our family, both those who are with us as well as those who have passed away and gone on before us, is warm on the most coldest, wintry day or times in our lives. Just like the pikelets did with the teatowel, love leaves it beautiful scent on our hearts and on our pathway through life. It gives us strength to face that hour, it comforts, it sustains, it encourages, it will always and ever remain! May we remember that are forever wrapped in His teatowel of love! 

I was writing a letter  the other day on my iPad and in it I was writing about “flower box windows”. But...I wrote the wrong word and instead it turned into “flower box widows”!! This made me laugh! I could just imagine many widows with boxes of colourful flowers on their heads! Some widows may have beautiful roses in the boxes, other ones may have  pretty pansies,whilst others have boxes of colourful tulips on their heads! 

    I send to you all many boxes filled with petals of love to comfort, encourage, and bring a touch of joy to your day. When you are tired or in pain, think of these petals of love I have sent, and may they reflect the love of our Loving Lord ❤️

It was so very odd on Good Friday! Even though the temperature was a bit coolish, the  sun was shining nice and brightly and it was lovely looking out through the windows at the sunny weather. Then, all of a sudden just before midday, the skies turned so very dark and there was not much sunlight at all! It got so dark that we needed to put on the kitchen lights! Then an hour later the skies were light and sunny again! It was quite funny as Mum, Dad and I all at the same time thought the same thing, without any of us saying a word! We all thought at the one time that it really reflected what happened on the original Good Friday when the skies turned dark at midday! It was  a very special reminder to us of the beautiful love of our Loving Lord as He was on the cross in the darkness! 

In a world that sometimes may feel a bit dark,His love is like a bright candle that shines and guides is through. May we taken comfort in his loving light ❤️

HE is RISEN! 
   HE is RISEN INDEED!