Annie's Blog

help us O God to let us see things with a new perspective help us to step back from our problems from whatever is currently taking up too much space in our mind and zero in on truth and beauty and your love. May God go with all of us this week, especially if we need a new perspective from which to view things. Help us to trust in His goodness and love, and know that He is with us, He cares for us, and that He will never leave us. Lord, grant us patience with ourselves and with others in our lives. Help us and them to see new things in our daily lives. Little moments of joy that jump out at us, large moments of fresh new perspectives so sorely needed in our busy lives. Help us to slow down enough to recognize you with us, and to be able to spread your Joy and Love among the communities where we live and work. "May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer" Psalm19: verse 14

Have I said how pretty the jacarandas are at the moment. I especially love the carpet of petals on the ground. There were a few days that have been a little like a whirlwind...a trip up the mountain to Grandparent's Day at school. Involving a walk with a grandson and a sighting of an unusual cactus flower. glimpses of fairy wings wonderful flowers again sightings of art works some puzzle solving lots of bubbles, and for this one, not without a little drama on the day some wonderful agapanthus , seem to be flowering early tornadoes in a bottle and a small person who had the honor of explaining it to the class chain reactions in the library even some newly hatched chickens to observe another chain reaction...just sorry I missed the little parachutes out the windows...it is hard to be everywhere at once! ;-) a glimpse of some more art work at the hospital emergency center on the way home, where a patient little patient was awaiting observation after a fall on the playground...sh...