I was watching a tv show the other day and someone was playing a calliope musical instrument. I hadn’t seen one before and it was very interesting! It has pipes which the music comes out of and is played a bit like an organ or a piano.

    There are lots of different types of musical instruments that we can play to enjoy making music! They all sound different but are all lovely. It is wonderful that our loving Lord has given us lots of ways to use music to praise and glorify Him. We can’t all play music very well, but we can all praise in in our hearts with tunes of love ❤️

 Dad had quite a job last week when buying a carton of eggs at Coles! Before buying the carton of eggs, he opened it up and found that 3 of them were already cracked, with yolk running out of them! He then opened other cartons up, and found that they had broken shell eggs in them too! Eventually he found a carton with 12 full intact, unbroken eggs! Dad was also telling me the other day about a lady who he had heard speaking on the radio. She had rang the radio program to say that she had bought a carton of eggs and each one of them was a double yolk! That was quite amazing!     We are nearing Christmastime now. But each day of the year we enjoy the special significance of both Christmastime and Easter in our daily lives. Eggs are a symbol of new life, and our lives are filled with the love of our Lord as we trust and rest in Him, as day by day  we live in  and for Him. He will protect us under His wings ❤️

  Dad was so very surprised the other day to find in our backyard a pot of little “Johnny jump up” flowers that must have self sown from last year, as Dad hadn’t planted any in a pot where he found them! Johnny jump ups are very little flowers that cause much cheerfulness to everyone who sees them. Sometimes when we are in pain or feeling a little sad or tired, we need  something to “jump up” ourselves. It is very special that our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father have given us beautiful  flowers to look at, as a reminder of their precious love ❤️

  We have been trying out all sorts of varieties of apples lately! My usual favourite is Royal Gala, but over the last weeks we have also been “testing” out Modi, Envy and Eve apples! They all have their own special taste, bite and flavour. It is quite amazing that apples are still apples but they all taste a bit different. It is just like us. We all live together in this world and have eyes, ears, nose and bodies, but we are all different. We like different things, have different things that we are good or not too good at doing, have different ways of doing things, but we have all been lovingly created by our loving Lord. Our loving Heavenly Father and loving Lord Jesus uniquely knows us, loves us and cares for us, and has a loving plan in our lives day by day ❤️

  Butterflies are pretty. They are very colourful and bring touches of joy and delight when you see them. They don’t live a long life but spread beauty wherever they fly. It is special that our loving Lord knows all the days of our lives. We are secure in His loving hands. May we give out His love to others each day ❤️

 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❤️

 Next Sunday is Fathers Day. I ❤️ my dad! He is sooo funny, loving, caring,kind and step-by-step he is slowly become more “computer/internet tech” knowledgable! He is so proud of himself when he learns something tech related and can do it himself!

  I completely love my beautiful and loving Heavenly Father❤️There are not enough words to express our love for Him, all that come from His love for us, so it best said in the words: “Praise the LORD!” 

       

 We are getting some trees removed from back/side yard area. The trees are a bit dead, and do need to go. It was interesting and great that one of the tree removal services that came to give us a quote for the job took pictures of the trees in our yard, and sent us the pictures and the quote cost by email, after they left. On the pictures, there were red crosses to mark the trees that were to be removed. It was helpful. 

The most beautiful cross in the whole wide world is the cross that our Loving Lord and Saviour Jesus died for us on ❤️. Each wooden grain in it is full of love❤️

  We usually get our groceries from Coles, but sometimes Dad goes to Woolworths to get certain items that they only stock or if there are some good specials on items. When he went last week, he said that he “couldn’t resist” buying me something that he saw whilst he was there. It is serviettes with a fairy/princess with red hair! They are so cute! I hardly want to use them! Dad said that as soon as he saw the red hair, he just had to buy them!   

   There is such a large variety of colours of hair that people have right around the world. And our hair can also become greyer or whiter as we age. Sometimes we lose all our hair also. Our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father loves each of us, whatever our hair colour or if we do or do not have hair. I don’t really know what hairstyle or colour hair our Lord had when He lovingly walked on this Earth, but I think that little children would have found comfort in touching His hair whilst He held them in His arms❤️

 We are now into August, the last month of Wintertime! Soon it will be Springtime, so that is great! My grandparents ( Mum’s Mum and Dad ) had birthdays very close together. One was at the end of August and the other at the start of September, then all at the same time was Fathers Day! There was so much to celebrate at that time! Each day, we can celebrate our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father and their love and care for us. They know all that we are going through: the joys, the tears, the tiredness and the smiles. We are in their tender care ❤️

   My lovely Dad came home from shopping the other day, carrying into our lounge room a beautiful bunch of yellow daffodils! They certainly brightened up a cold Winters day! Daffodils sing a message of joy and hope.Much, much more though the love of our loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father fill our daily lives with joyful hope ❤️