Ride Away To The Land Of Far Away

 She was just a small little thing with two pony tails with red ribbons sloppily tied on each. Her shoes a few sizes too big since they were handed down and her  pants needed a safety pin to cinch in the waist in order to stay  up.  She wished she had pretty clothes and shiny shoes like her friends and pretty braids. She did not know why there was always so much yelling and screaming....it made her tummy hurt! It made her want to cry! She didn't know what to do. She just wanted to run away from it all. She got on her faithful friend....her pony, who she talked to everyday.  He listened to what she had to say....no one else did. She could pet him and talk to him and then things would start to feel a little bit better. She would get on "Chestnut" and ride away to the Land of Far Away where there was no yelling....no screaming!  She would ride faster and faster and as she rode she would sing to the top of her lungs all of the songs she was taught in Sunday School......"YES, JESUS LOVES ME....YES,JESUS LOVES ME..YES, JESUS LOVES ME...THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO...." She would ride and sing and cry until she was so worn out she would have to stop and then get off her faithful little Chestnut give him a pat....and say "thanks for the ride".

Birdie On The Branch

This morning the sun is so brightly shining as I raise up my blinds in the living room. It is a long awaited blessing. Now if the temperature would only go along with Spring....my computer tells me that the current temp this morning is 25 at the moment! I have hope though, that Spring is just around the corner here, while it has already arrived many places South of me! As I opened the door this morning to hook my dog up to let her out to do her early morning ritual, I noticed a change in the atmoshpere! It was not silent out there! I heard birdies chirping!! Yay!! Then I sat down on my recliner couch to drink my coffee and looked out my window to see a little birdie sitting on the very edge of the branch right by my window! I haven't seen that in a long...long...time. So Spring  IS coming, people of the Northwoods, who thought it got lost somewhere! That little birdie on the branch was making quite a bit of noise all by himself too...so cute. He made me take notice of him. It made me think of the birds and the fact that God takes care of them. It reminds me that I am valuable...more valuable than that little birdie on that branch! If God takes care of a little bird He surely is going to take care of Me...another newsflash from God to me...to quit worrying about things...

Matthew 6:26 " Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

Wood For The Fire

This is our woodpile or  I should say it is one of our wood piles. Some winters we use more than this pile to keep our two woodstoves burning. We do have a furnace as well with propane heat but the winters are pretty harsh up in the Northwoods so in order to save on heating costs we burn wood. Those woodstoves can really put out some warmth and heat the entire house when you keep the wood going in. If by chance you forget about it and  don't put any more wood into it then the fire goes out. Funny that in Proverbs, gossip is likened to this. The more you talk about something to someone else, about someone else, the more people get involved; and then pretty soon you have a huge bonfire of gossip and lies. If you choose to just let it die out and not fuel the gossip by spreading it, then it really doesn't go anywhere. A good thing to remember is that if someone brings a tidbit to you, then they are taking a tidbit from you to someone else! I sure have some work here! The best thing to do is to stop it in it's tracks before it can even get going.....so if need be...just keep your mouth shut and you will keep yourself from a world of trouble.

Proverbs 26:20 "Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down."