We are now half way through Winter! That is great! Winter is not my favourite season, as it is cold and not sunshiny! It is lovely though that in the midst of cloudy skies and darkness, all of a sudden beautiful glimpses of sunshine still appear! Perhaps we appreciate the sunshine even more when  that happens then on a Summery sunny day. The love of our beautiful loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father shines through all the parts of our day. We rest in His love through our pain,weakness and tiredness ❤️

 There are many people who are heading for the snowfields these season to have fun in the snow! They may be skiing or building cute snowmen or just enjoying time spent chatting around a warm log fire having warm cups of coffee,tea or hot chocolate. It would be too cold though for me! I like the warmth of home!  

  Our loving and beautiful Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father express some of their power and majesty as they send the snow. Snow glistens in its whiteness, and each snowflake has been formed beautifully. The ground is covered in whiteness just like as we look outside through windows we see the touch of our creative Lord in all that we see in nature ❤️

     

 Our beautiful and loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father care so very much about us ❤️ They know when we are tired, or painful or feeling a little sad. They do know that we miss our loved ones that are now living with them in Heaven and they tenderly say to us: “ We’re looking after them and they continue to love you so much. We know and see your tears, and are lovingly  watching over you until the time when you will see them again”❤️

 Dad and Mum used to present a lovely slideshow program called : “Wintertime Wonderland.” It had lots of slides of Wintertime nature scenes that Dad had taken, and it was very beautiful and majestic. When the lights when out and everyone was looking at the slides, everything was very quiet and we could all give very much praise to our beautiful and loving Lord Creator as we looked at the lovely Wintertime slides. May we continue to give thanks for all the special Winter landscape that our Loving Creator provides ❤️

     We celebrated King Charles’ birthday last week. It seems so strange after so many years of the Queens Birthday holiday in June! The day will be the same but just have a different name.

 May we always, every and continually eternally praise the King of Kings, who is our loving Lord Jesus! He will reign forever and ever! ❤️❤️

  Wintertime is here and the weather is very cold!  Although we don’t have snow where we live, when I think of Wintertime I think of white snow. Just like snow falling from the sky, our beautiful and loving Saviour Lord Jesus came from Heaven to die for us on the cross ❤️It is very wonderous love ❤️

   It was “World Turtle Day” last week! Turtles move  very slowly and they look quite cute with their shell on their back. The shell though is quite hard and weighty, so it requires a lot of effort for them to move. That is reason why they move slowly. 

Our beautiful and loving Lord Jesus and loving Heavenly Father loves us very much and helps us to carry our load of pain, concerns and tiredness, just like a turtle. Sometimes the load feels very heavy, but we are so encouraged that  our Lord has us in His Hands and carries the load with us ❤️

  Money is important for food, clothing, and many essential items for our lives. It is good to know though that the real treasures of life aren’t bought with money. The love of our Loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father is for eternity ❤️Our family is our treasure also ❤️

 I think that these pictures of frogs are so cute! They make me smile!  Frogs are not the most “prettiest” animals in the world! But our loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father made them especially for the world. They made so many wonderful creatures and each animal has been so intricately  made, with their own special unique features and way of living. May we ever and always give praise to our wonderful creating Lord! ❤️

  It is Mother’s Day this coming Sunday. I send hugs to everyone as they remember their Mums. My Mum who is Heaven is so beautiful to me and her love remains with me everyday. It is comforting that our Loving Lord Jesus and Loving Heavenly Father know that we very much miss our Mums and gently say to us: “I understand”❤️🦋 Tears are unspoken prayers ❤️

  I could hardly believe when I looked on the coles online website the other day and saw that the Coles dark and light fruit cakes that we used to buy for and sell at the Strathalan Kiosk for $3.50 is now $6.50 to buy at the store! It is a big price increase!  Our life is like a “fruit cake”! It is made up of joys, sadness, laughter, and tears, all mixed together like the ingredients in a fruit cake. Throughout each day the beautiful love of our Lord blends all that happens in our lives together, and we know that He is always caring for us ❤️🌼

  I thought that this picture of lots of varieties of biscuits that was on the Arnotts website was great! They sell so many types of biscuits! Everyone has their favourite Arnotts biscuit whether it be plain, cream, chocolate, dry or savoury! When I think of Milk Arrowroot, Milk Cofffee and Marie biscuits, they seem to be comforting biscuits. They are plain, but also nice.   

When we think of our loving Lord Jesus, we give thanks that in our pain, He brings comfort as He promises to be with us through it. Our pain remains, but His loving comforting  presence is also there. I can hardly take in when I think of all the pain He lovingly went through for us ❤️

        This week is special Easter week when we are especially thinking of the very loving death and triumphant resurrection of our beautiful Saviour and Lord Jesus. Each day of the year though may we give heart -felt thanks to Him for what He did for us on the cross ❤️ He has died, He has risen. He will come again ❤️

 The Australian Grand Prix was held last weekend. I am not really “into” racing car contests, although I did enjoy watching the  “ Cars” Disney movie! For the people though who enjoy watching car racing it is a fun and exciting time for them.  The cars go a lot faster than the donkey who carried Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem for the loving birth of our beautiful Saviour. But what a special job that the donkey did! I can imagine that he stayed at the manger with Mary and Joseph whilst she gave birth, and would have smiled at the first loving cry from our Lord ❤️ Another  donkey and her colt  also had the very special privilege of carrying our Lord as He rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, as a King ❤️