Showing posts with label one word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one word. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2017

Beauty For Ashes and Word Clouds


The Wind can sure wreak havoc and it did just that to this door 
on our greenhouse this week.  

When I went to water plants, on the windy day,  this was what I found.  
I guess a gust  caught the door and whipped it right into  shards.  

 What a mess and I'm still sad.  
It was  quite a labor of love from Myguy.  
I took the photos to text to him at work when I found the door broken and then started 
cleaning up all the glass.
Here are the salvaged panes stacked on my desk.  
See the irony?   

After cleaning up all the glass, I carried the  broken
wooden  pieces to the burn pile.  
While there; look what I found.

A charred bird and bracelet. 
Not long ago, a friend sent a gift to me.  
The package looked like something you could mail a poster in? 
It resembled a tinfoil type box.  
Inside, was the most beautiful Cavallini art paper and a beautiful card.
When I wrote her and thanked her she replied back and asked 
what about the other things I sent you?  
Other things?  There was the paper and the card in the package.  
I didn't see anything else.  She was positive she put other things  in there.   I really figured  it must have gotten mixed up 
in her wrapping paper stuff or something and it never got sent?  
That she'd come across it in her house?  
Then she asked if I could go get the box.
The box? 
The box was  already gone.
  I'd already thrown the box away.    
:(  
She was sick about it and I ...felt ....terrrrrrrrrible.  
Anyways, long story short .... the bird up above and the bracelet are from my friend!
Some of our trash gets burned if it's burnable  and the rest we put in the dumpster.  
You know; even if I would have ever dreamed I could find the things she said she'd mailed,
I would never have dreamed these two things would be salvageable but look...
A bracelet that says Let your light shine
and this beautiful little bird.  
I took the photos as I was cleaning it all up and sent them to her.
She was delighted and  told me that the bird was all white when
she mailed it.  That sounds beautiful but really, 

 I just don't think this could be any more beautiful.
I love it soooooooooo much.  
I'm wearing the bracelet too.  
It too is a unique color but they have even more story 
now and God spoke straight to my heart through them.  
No surprise that her word for the year is restoration. 
Mine is  illuminated.  
Chicken skin is what we both got from all this.  
Those are her words for goosebumps.  
Now more about words- 

 This afternoon I made a word cloud from your
one little words that yall have shared with me.
If anyone else wants to share  theirs, I'd love to see this cloud grow.  
  
Then I made this one too.  
I used an app on my phone called Tag Cloud.  
It was really fun but the more I fiddled with it, then it started making the words all bigger and 
when I saved the picture;  the words were running outside the square which wouldn't work.
Thankfully I saved these two photos before it started messing up.  I couldn't find anywhere on the app
to adjust the size of the font.  Maybe I missed something?  I'll play around with it again another day.  
The picture started out black and white but I added light to it in editing.
Feel free to use and share them.

Alright, gotta run.
Addie is in my spot next to Myguy on the couch.  
Til we meet again, 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Way...Scripture Picture

Greetings and holykisses,

This is part of my day  here in the mechanics shop.  Bible, study, devo, coffee, and candle lit with music from the shabby playing in the background. 
The past 24 hours has been ... unsettling to say the least.

Yesterday morning, baby Carter was taken to the hospital because of a fever? To be honest I didn't think much of it because I remember our boys getting fevers and my memory sees bottlefuls of pink Amoxicillin   through many of those  flashbacks.  -- Long story short; he was admitted and then began this long ordeal of testing; even a spinal tap to rule out Meningitis!  Hearing that word sparked complete fear in me as I have a dear friend who lost his Mother to that horrid word.  Thankfully the tests came back negative,but he was put through so much... -- they poked and poked on him trying to get a vein for an iv and ended up putting it in his head.  As the day wore on he was then sent by ambulance to children's hospital.  At least there; we know if there really is something wrong... he's in a place specialized for children.  ???  I guess they did xray's etc ... and all came back okay... other than saying he has gas and is constipated.  He's still running a little  fever and I guess that's what has everyone concerned?   We know he's teething already so wouldn't that explain a fever?   I hope if there is something wrong with him, they figure it out... -- please keep him in your prayers today.  The kids too because I know they're trying to do the right thing. 

With Trent gone yesterday; I was a shop girl again. 
Today as well. It started pouring just as I opened the doors and flipped the light switch this morning.  It sounded so good on the tin roof.  I lit my candle, and settled into the chair behind the desk.   My bible brought a good word to so many back and forth thoughts.  I'm praying for Carter... and Trent and Kayla.  ... For guidance and help today.  I give thanks that even when we don't  know what we're doing... or what's next;  well...that God is already there.  I'm reminded today, who to focus on.  --And to keep going... forward to Him.  No matter what our circumstances look like. 

I carried my journal down here as well and jotted the word FOCUS in big fat letters.  It's my one word today.  Maybe it will be for more days too.... because it's been so off lately- that focus.   Especially praying.  I started praying a  minute ago and then this mind wandered to the nachos I would fix for Myguy's supper and I wondered if the sour cream is out of date and did or didn't I take the hamburger meat out of the freezer?  




 Father please forgive me...
......... 

Show me your way today,
because it's what I want. 
Your good way.
Help me  re-focus on You.
With every person I speak with on the phone today,
and every person who walks through these doors; 
help me walk in 
your way. 

Thank you for
the rain on this roof.
For helping my family through so much...
even when we don't understand.
I know and trust you are
here.....there...
now and tomorrow.
amen.