Oh, how I miss blogging....

Yes, I miss you guys....hello?  Is anyone out there?   It is a bad thing to have an infrequent blog and be absent from the blogosphere.  I don't have my pics loaded on this computer....and for whatever reason this computer lets me type a few keystrokes and then it changes its mind and skips a few letters....okay it just happened, I typed a whole sentence and then in a flash it was gone....what does Charlie Brown say when things conspire against him?...oh yeah, AARRGGHH!

So in this sweet Easter season, when we give thanks and glory to God, all I dare to share--or else the computer may sweep it away, are once again some quotes....and Thanks.  For hanging in there with me and, as always, your encouragement.

~~...the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.~~
                                     ~~Margret Mitchell

~~Friendship is forgetting what you give and remembering what you receive.~~
                                     ~~Unknown

~~The best way out is always through.~~
                                     ~~ Robert Frost

~~You must plough with such oxen as you have.~~
                                     ~~ English Proverb

~~When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,
     when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
     count your many blessings,
     name them one by one,
     And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
                                      ~~Johnson Oatman, old hymn

Happy Easter...He is Risen!

Thoughtful Thursday

Computer troubles.  I'm on a borrowed computer and even tho' I had some blogging inspiration lately, with my pictures stored on a to be repaired computer, I am now image-less.  Oh, my...that sounds bad.  But I have some words to share that have cheered, and encouraged me.....

I need this one:
     Use what talents you possess--the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.    ~~Henry Van Dyke

     A ship in a harbor is safe--but that is not what ships are made for.  ~~John A. Shedd

     The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.  ~~Zephaniah 3:17

     In our daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.  ~~Unknown

     You and I are here to do good to others.  What the others are here for, I don't know.  ~~W.H. Auden

And as a funny:   You can observe a lot just by watching.  ~~Yogi Berra

Love to you and yours,

In Christ,

Jenny

Stepping Outside...

Quotes for cheering you through the weekend:

~We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving.~~Billy Graham

~It is wonderful what may be done if we are always doing.~~Thomas Jefferson

~When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can~~Dean Goulburn

~....the cheerful heart has a continual feast.~~Proverbs 15:15 NIV

This seems a bit of a cheat but with the quotes I wanted to share, I also wanted to post something that moved me today.  I love reading Corey's Tongue in Cheek blog


Ahh, Provence!

where she writes primarily about her expat life (she's American) with her French husband of twenty-some years in Provence.  Her photos, her love of brocante, and travel has drawn together quite a nice community of bloggers, but today she shared an amazing part of her travels and I feel compelled to post.
Her visit with a long-time friend in Thailand to the Vieng Ping Children's home


precious, happy faces and a heart stirring visit

Blogging is such an amazing forum to me.  And I thank y'all that stop by and those that I read for all you share and how wonderfully you help me step outside my everyday and inspire. 

In Christ,

Good Friday to you..

Random photo...yeah, I am dreaming of Paris when I see the pasture. 

But we will enjoy having some family visit us this weekend to kick us out of our hermit life reverie.  Nothing in particular going on but some quotes I have run across recently I wanted to share...

~Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.~~Mark Twain

~ A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists.~~ G.K. Chesterton

~Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.~~Victor Hugo

~Dear God, be good to me, the sea is so wide
and my boat is so small.~~Prayer of Breton fishermen

~Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light.~~Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30)

In Christ,