Sunrises and Sunsets are often very beautiful! The colours of the skies are very pretty! When we look outside and see them, they seem to bring a burst of encouragement! The colours often look as if they have been painted, and the artwork of the skies is given to us to enjoy! No words need to be said. Our Loving Lord says through the pretty skies : “ I love you, my love is richer, deeper and more beautiful than a thousand sunsets and sunrises... this is just a little reminder”

  The football season is going well!  There are many people that  like to cheer on their favourite football team, whether they are watching it live at the game, or watching it at home on the tv, or listening to the match being described on the radio! It gets exciting when one team leads by only a few points and there are only a couple of minutes left in the match! May we also “ cheer on” those we see each day or are in contact with by phone or mail. Caring loving kindness is like sunshine on a cloudy day! May we shine His Sonshine love! 

  Happy Autumn! Pumpkins are sometimes associated with Autumn. It is a lovely season to enjoy eating pumpkin soup! 

Pumpkins are often heavy, and sometimes our  cares and pain feel heavy on us too. Our Loving Lord wants to share the load with us. He  has His arm underneath to help us endure and cope. He has very loving and safe hands ❤️

  It is now officially Autumn but i think though that we will continue to have warm weather for a little while! I send sunshine smiles to you all! 😀😀😀 Our loving Lord, who is the Son of God, send His Son-shine into our lives each and every day whatever the weather! When we are in pain, or feeling a little fearful, or anxious, or are weary, He especially sends a “ sun ray” of His love to shine upon our inside spirit to remind us that He cares and is looking after us.

 We received an email from Woolworths the other day, and it’s focus was on the stone fruit that they sell. Stone fruit is yummy! One of the recipes was for : “Plum yoghurt ice blocks”! It is a nice fruity ice cream block that it made in icy block moulds! It would be nice and cold to eat on a hot day! The ingredients are: “ 3 large red plums,pitted 

          2/3 cup 100% pure coconut water

          1/3 cup coconut yoghurt” 

It is interesting that you can now buy coconut water and coconut yoghurt! The food and drink makers are continually making new foods and drinks for us to  have!  

    Coconuts are quite odd fruit! They are round shaped,with a rough “hairy”  brown outer covering but also a  nice white soft inside! Sometimes, it is a little bit like life! We may feel like our outside has been a bit battered from pain, health or worries, but inside we feel a bit “ fragile” and “ sensitive” inside. May we be ever conscious of how our loved ones and those we are in contact with are feeling, and seek to show them loving concern and care. A little smile and a “ thinking of you” really brings lots of loving  encouragement! 

 I hope that anyone who is reading this is having a very lovely Christmastime! ❤️May it be very special for you as we give praise that our beautiful loving Lord came to our world as a little baby  ❤️ He loves you so much! He cares for you so much! His birth, death and resurrection shows us the depth and width of His love! ❤️

   It is Christmastime! It has been quite a “ different”  type of year! No one really expected that it would be such a year!  Our loving Lord and His tremendously loving love though has never ever changed! He is with us all the time through whatever our lives and days are holding. He knows our every tear, our smiles, our pain, and wants to keeps gently reminding us that He loves us and very much cares about us ❤️

  I think that this bunnies picture is so cute! All the bunnies have prettily wrapped presents to give to the bunnies inside!  I don’t know if the presents are for a Birthday , Christmas or for some other event! 

May each day we give out “gifts” of kindness, caring love and sunshine to everyone that we are in contact with ❤️ There are many ways of doing this and will be an encouragement to others that is more appreciated than the most prettily wrapped presents ! 

 With Christmas soon coming I was thinking about gingerbread men! When I was at primary school, gingerbread men were sold at the canteen and they were very popular! Ginger has such a strong aroma! Mum and I never made gingerbread men BUT we used to make a lovely ginger slice! I don’t know now what the recipe is but i can remember that it was so very  gingery and lots of fun to make and bake!Gingerbread men are very cute! They are always the same shape, although their faces differ from one gingerbread man to another! 

   Gingerbread men are a bit  just  like us! We are all the same in that underneath we all feel happy, sad, have pain, get tired, have times of joy. And everyone has cried in their life. And the main thing that we all have the same is that we all want to be loved just for being us. It is so very special that our loving Lord very much loves us just as we are. He created us...and loves His creations! 

      I saw these pictures of Noah’s Ark the other day, and thought that they looked very cute! I also wanted to share them with you to make you all smile also! Our Loving Lord is with us through all the stormy times of life. We are sheltered in His care and His love as we trust Him. His love is a million times more precious and more beautiful than even the most  beautiful coloured rainbow! And His love shines through the sunshine and rain ❤️

      Mum got Dad to buy me some special “ silly socks” from McDonalds last week! They are being sold to complement with McHappy Day when money from all the Big  Macs sold that day are used to help run the Ronald McDonald Homes where families can stay near the hospitals when their sick kids are having treatment. The money raised through the sales of the socks also go to the Ronald McDonald Homes. The socks are very cute! They have Big Macs and French fries on them!     

         Socks and stockings keep our legs warm. In the way, the love of our Loving Lord, and our family keeps our inside heart and spirit warm! Even if the weather is cold outside, as we rest in His love and know that He cares about how we are feeling, love full of warmth can help us as we go through times of pain ❤️

 The Melbourne Cup is often called : “The race that stops the Nation”!! People all over Australia stop what they are doing for the few minutes that the race is on, to see what horse wins! May we in the same way each day “stop” and think of our  many blessings, and give thanks for the loving care of our Loving Lord Who loves us and sends sunshine, rain, clouds, blue skies and very majestical thunder and lightning! He created the seasons and has made  different things to happen in every season! 

 The other day, there were verses from a song that all of a sudden “ popped” into my mind, and sometimes when that happens the song verses  keep coming into your thoughts all that day! The song verses were :

“In your time, in your time

You make all things beautiful

In your time 

Lord my life to you I bring

May each song I have to sing

Be to you a lovely thing

In your time” 

And at the same time, I kept thinking about pretty butterflies that are all sorts of lovely colors! Our Loving Lord’s love for us is like all the pretty colours of a butterfly! The variety of  colours reflect all the different parts and times  of life! His love endures for us through our sad times, happy  times, painful times, excited times, and one day  when there is a “New Heaven and Earth” all things will be completely beautiful! I like to imagine that  there will be lots and  lots of pretty butterflies flying around!

 Every so often we receive a newsletter email from Nestles which contains recipes to cook. Of course,  they always contain Nestle brand products! I had a little laugh to myself last Friday when we received  their newsletter at 5 p.m., just the right for families to then plan to cook the recipes over the weekend, but first go to the supermarket and buy the Nestles brand ingredients! The recipes were for  “ Rich Flourless Chocolate cake”, “ Easy ChocolarexBanana Cake” and “ Rich Caramel Mudcake”! They all look and sound very rich and chocolatey! 

        The main “ ingredient” in life is love! Love from our Loving Lord, our family and our friends  mixes through our days, and helps us  to cope with whatever the day or our life is holding. Just like a very rich chocolatey cake, our lives are filled with immense richness when we remember that we are very loved ❤️💗