Annie's Blog

Just as one sits wondering if one is doing the right thing, when a friend asks "have you prayed about it"? The answers come... the new blooms in the garden for moral support today a wonderful reading from Acts 16:9-15 13  On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14  One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. 15  When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us. and the comments from With Love to the World : Many of us consider church to be a settled place. Some have appropriated images of "journey" for their spiritual life, but may sti...

The letter P this week is for PRICKLY PEAR These fine specimens were in my sons back garden in Melbourne, but they do occur in Queensland. They got to be such a pest in Queensland taking over the valuable farming land, that a bug had to be introduced to eradicate them...there is a memorial hall to the bug out on the Darling Downs, I think at a little place call ed Boonarga. The PINEAPPLE is a POPULAR fruit here too! My PETRIA is flowering away PRETTILY as is my flowering POMEGRANATE The PLOVERS have been warding off people walking too close to their nest. I always wonder why they make their nests on the ground, but they do seem quite efficient at warning people so I guess they can get away with it, eh? This morning was the first morning that they wern't there on my morning walk, so maybe the babies are old enough to defend themselves now. Here's hoping! This looks a little like a PIZZA , but it isn't ..it is a POTATO fritter! This was a lovely wheelbarrow of PETUNIAS a...