Friday Foto Friends and "Photo-a-Day" Challenge

 Well, one thing's for certain, you can expect a LOT of photos on this post. I never was very good at posting just ONE photo ever! LOL.  Happy Friday everyone! While I am writing this I hear thunder rumbling outside, and we are supposed to get some much needed rain any minute now. To answer some questions, no, our pond is still not filled up, nor does it even look like it's trying to be. It is like a giant sponge that keeps soaking in whatever rain we get, but there just hasn't been enough yet to make any difference.  Hopefully with these afternoon thunderstorms we've been getting, one of these days I will see a puddle on top of the "sponge". I will be sure to let you know when that happens! 

Here's how it looks right now:   It just started to rain!

Here's basically that same view, taken in February of 2025:

What a difference!  Now you see why we need a lot more rain!

It's raining outside pretty good now (but it's too dark to take a picture), so if it keeps raining like this for many more days, we may get back to that beautiful pond once again. Praying it doesn't take a hurricane to do it, however.  We can live without those!

Life does continue on out there along the "shore" of Still Waters Pond anyway.  Here's Mrs. Bluebird, sticking her head out of the birdhouse, and Mr. Chickadee is on top of the house saying hello:

Mr. Bluebird is up above, keeping an eye on things, and making sure Mr. Chickadee doesn't  try to move in on his territory!

Apparently Mrs. Bluebird is still taking care of babies in there. I thought they were farther along than that, but either she's still sitting on the nest, or she's feeding babies. Time will tell.

Mr. Hummingbird says he doesn't care what they do, just please keep my bird feeder cleaned and filled with fresh sugar water so it doesn't ferment in this high heat.  I try to change it about every 2-3 days. The hummingbirds have been quite active this summer in spite of the heat.

This morning we took a ride down to the Kenwood Boat Ramp and came upon this family of wild turkeys out for a morning stroll:

They were doing the "Turkey Trot" across the road in front of us:

You just never know what kind of slow moving traffic you will run into around here!  LOL.  

 

So now we come to the Photo-a-Day Challenge for July, and today is July 17th, which means I have to look for something that is "on the shelf".  Well, if you came to my house, you would see that I have way too many shelves to look at, so I tried to narrow it down to just some here in my "RoomWith A View"

I'll start with this bookshelf (which is something my son Benton built for me quite a few years ago).

This sits beside my desk, and I keep a lot of different kinds of things on it...a lot of special books about tea, devotional books, Bible Study books, a few cookbooks, and other various gift type books that I've been given over the years.  The top shelf has some special treasures that remind me of my "boys", but I won't go into all of that today.  The photograph hanging above the shelf is of "My Three Sons", taken way back when our boys were still just "our boys", before they all went their separate ways in life. It's pretty special to me.

This shelf has some special gifts from my sister Doris...she gave me that sweet teapot with the little bird on top of the lid, and the little book that says "Sisters!", and the other things in the background...

This little framed picture that says "Sisters Are Forever!, and one is a redhead and the other a brunette, which would be just the way we were when we were younger.

And also this greeting card, that has a story.  You see, my sister liked this card so much, she gave me the same identical card three years in a row (not realizing she'd already given me the same one the year before).  I still have two of them, but the third one I sent back to her to see if she would recognize it! LOL.  We both agreed that Hallmark needed to change up their cards each year so that wouldn't keep happening to us! LOL.

I am very thankful for my dear sister.  Yes, we do "belong to each other", and yes, we are Sisters Forever!

Further down on another shelf on this bookcase is this little "teapot for one" with the attached tea cup. This was a special gift from a dear friend of mine named Sharon, who gave this to me just prior to her moving away to go back home to be near family in Minnesota as she lived out her last days after a valiant battle with cancer. There is the last sweet note she wrote to me before going away enclosed in the teapot.  I keep it there to remember this precious friend and what a courageous woman she was.

This verse from 2 Corinthians 12:9 would be representative of the way she lived even until God called her home. Her faith in God never wavered, even though it meant leaving behind a young son who had just graduated high school, whom she had adopted when he was about two years old. He also moved back to Minnesota, and we keep in touch with him. He has a good job and a year ago he became a father to a precious little girl. Little "Ellie" is adorable and I pray for her and keep up with her via Facebook. I know my friend Sharon would be so proud of her son and this precious little granddaughter that she can only see from heaven's windows.  But I can assure you, if our loved ones who have gone on before can have any positive influence in the lives of their dear ones still on earth, Sharon is definitely keeping a close watch over little Ellie and cheering her on as she grows up and hopefully learns how much Jesus loves her.  I don't know if that's possible or not, but I can't help but think that Sharon is well aware of this dear little girl.

Across the room is another set of shelves, another cabinet built by our son Benton! (Yes, I've been blessed!)

Yes, there's a LOT of stuff on those shelves, but I am just going to zero in on another special item from another special friend, who also happens to be named Sharon!

When we lived in New Hampshire there was a very dear friend in our church named Sharon.  She was such a precious soul, and I loved her dearly.  She gave me this sweet doll, and I named her "Rose of Sharon".  (Little did I know at that time that one day I would also have a sweet daughter in law named Rose!)

When we moved away from there, she gave me this plaque, which reads:

"God in His wisdom and His love very often sends His angels down to walk with us.

We know them best as "friends."'

I can only tell you that the only "angel" in this case would've been this dear friend Sharon. She was a woman of a very special kind of wisdom...someone who would appear to be kind of humble and simple in some ways, and yet when she spoke it was with such wisdom and faith. I truly treasured our friendship. Sadly, again, another dear friend who was called home to heaven  much too soon.  All I know is I've got two very special friends named Sharon waiting for me in heaven some day. They both came from different places and in different times in my life, but they were both God's gift to me for that time.

Well, friends, the rain has stopped, and as you can see, even after a couple of hours of rain, there is still no sign of water on the pond...but every drop counts, and one day we will all be surprised!

Oh, btw, we stopped by to see our son where he was working at the Trading Post at Deep Creek on our way home from the boat ramp this morning, and I noticed this sign on the inside of their gate...and I thought I should add it to the 'signs' from the photo challenge from the other day...I liked this...

And with that, I will close this post with a Psalm of Praise to our Awesome God!!

Psalm 66:1-5

For the director of music. A song. A psalm.

"1 Shout for joy to God, all the earth!

2 Sing the glory of his name;

make his praise glorious.

3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power

that your enemies cringe before you.

4 All the earth bows down to you;

they sing praise to you,

they sing the praises of your name.”

5 Come and see what God has done,

His awesome deeds for mankind!"

Amen!

Thursday Thankfulness: Something to "Write Home About"

Happy Thursday! I hope your week is going well so far!  It's been fairly quiet here this week, with no special events going on, "nothing to write home about".    Do you ever wonder where such sayings come from? This one just struck me as I wrote it, and so I consulted my new friend "AI", and here's what he (or is it a she?) said:

"The phrase "nothing to write home about" emerged in the late 1800s among travelers and deployed soldiers. It comes from the idea that when away from family, you would only fill your letters with truly exciting or noteworthy news; therefore, an unremarkable event or mediocre place is "nothing to write home about". [1, 2, 3, 4]

The idiom became widely popularized during World War I, as troops stationed overseas routinely used the phrase to describe mundane or disappointing experiences in letters to their loved ones. The earliest known written record of the phrase dates back to North America in 1905, though the concept of being "worth writing home about" was used in advertising and literature as early as 1860. [1, 2, 3, 4]"

I kind of figured it had something to do with soldiers, but just didn't know how far back it went. Now we know! Do you ever use that phrase?  I feel like when I am writing a blog post it is a lot like writing a letter to home...and you are my family.  Sometimes I have exciting and interesting news to share, and sometimes I have to search for something noteworthy.  Today seems to be one of those days. Although I did do something interesting and special this morning, but I've promised not to share it until after the person for whom it is intended has been properly notified and surprised, so you will have to wait a week for that. Now I've got you wondering. LOL. Just stay tuned until next week.  

Thinking about having "something to write home about"...back in the days many years ago when we lived far away from home while serving in the ministry, I wrote a lot of letters to my parents, and I asked them to try and save some of them so that I would have them to look back upon and maybe use them to write a book someday. Well, my mother was diligent to save a lot of them in this little box, but I still haven't written that book:

There is a smattering of letters and cards  and pictures from many years ago, when our boys were very young (and so were we)...and these are a treasure trove of memories...

Here's one card/letter that I sent...that would be typical of me and the kinds of pictures that I liked on cards...

Anyway, back then I usually had something "to write home about" because we were young and our kids were little and doing something different all the time, and I wanted our parents to know what was going on since they were so far away.  Gosh, I just started reading some of these letters, and decided I'd better stop or I'd never get this post written! In one of them I even told my mother that I'd just felt my 1st baby move for the first time!  That was definitely something to write home about!  

So meanwhile, let's get back to this July Photo a Day Challenge.  I'm still trying to get caught up. 

I never did do the "shadow" picture for the 13th. We had such cloudy days and I just couldn't find anything really "shadowy" to capture in a photo.  Then finally when we took a walk yesterday morning I noticed the sun was shining behind us, so I called hubby over to me and said, "Stand still a minute and let me take a picture of our shadows!".  Thankfully he was a willing companion.   If his head looks kind of like he has long hair, it's because he's wearing one of those hats with a bug screen over his face. My hubby is so sweet that the bugs just seem to flock to him when we go outside, so this bugscreen hat is really a life saver for him.  The bugs don't bother me as much. Not sure why. Perhaps I'm just not sweet enough? LOL. Probably so.

This next picture was taken when we took a ride last evening. Although you can't really tell they are shadows, we were driving through the combined shadows of those trees over the road, also known as "shade", but you can see the sunshine in the distance where the trees have disappeared.

So I already did the picture for the 14th on my last post, but I haven't done the one for the 15th and 16th yet. So this morning I went around and took some pictures of some signs inside our house, and therefore they should suffice for both prompts...signs, and indoors.

Our son Benton used to make all kinds of signs and sell them. He doesn't do so many signs now, but I happen to have quite a few of them in our house. Here's a sampling of a few. 

This one is in my bathroom, above the bathtub:

Yikes, don't look too closely, or you will see our unmade bed reflected in the mirror. I did these when I first got up this morning before I got around to making the bed, so please forgive the untidiness of this picture. LOL.

Sadly I don't ever use this bathtub. It's too big of a risk for me getting in and out and it uses too much water that we have to pay for! But if you are a guest and wish to take a bath in the tub, I will only charge you 25 cents...however if you want soap and a towel, we'll have to discuss that! LOL.

This was the original sign at our entry table at the front door, where you are supposed to sign the guest book when you come to visit (if I remember to remind you, which I seem to always forget anymore!)

But then last year Benton and Rose made this sign for me for Christmas,  "Come in and Cozy Up", because I had seen one like it at a store and wanted one like it. So now it sits on that table.

OH, this sign hangs over the door to our laundry room:

And this one, that they both made for me, sits inside my "Room With a View", where I can see it when I am writing to you. It's a good reminder for me to remember why I write this blog...even if I don't have "anything to write home about", there's always the Good News of the Gospel to share with you, and to remind you that Jesus Loves You.

And with that I think I will close this post for today.  I am thankful for my home and family, and for my parents, who have been gone to heaven for many years now, but I love that they saved my letters and cards so that I could go back and remember some really special times in our lives. Oh, and I have a lot of their letters and cards that they wrote to us as well.  I really don't like to throw things like that away.

I am thankful for you, and I hope that you are having a memorable day in some way as well.  I hope that you have "something to write home about" that you can share with us!

One more sign, which is hanging above our bedroom door:

And here's the verse that goes with that:

Yes, the "greatest of these is love."  Amen.  

Have a blessed and wonderful rest of your day my friends....

 

Tuesday 4~ Summertime

 Summertime

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4...
Summer time is upon us.


1. What special memories do you have about summer when you were younger?

Between the two of these links below from older posts about my summertime adventures as a child, you will get the big picture of just about everything I can remember.  Let me suffice it to say that I have a lot of happy summertime memories of vacation trips through the mountains, camping in the State Parks (in a tent) along the way to and from Ohio to visit relatives. Those were the happiest times of my young life. In addition to these memories  there were day trips to the beach or the springs that are all around us in the Ocala National Forest. Some of these excursions  (to the springs) were with the school summertime program, and that was always a lot of fun. 

I hope you will take the time to click on these links and get the whole story of my summertime childhood memories. They are too numerous to repeat  writing again! LOL. (and my memory is fading. LOL).
Here's a link to some of my favorite summer memories

And HERE is another link to more summertime memories

2. What is the highest temperature you've experienced in summer? What about so far this summer? How do you weather the heat or humidity?

We've been having heat indexes of over 110 degrees, which means the actual temperatures were in the very high 90's, with humidity also in the high 90's. Last week we were under a heat advisory almost every day. So far this week it has been a tad cooler, only in the high 80's and lower 90's, which is a nice break. We've also been getting more afternoon pop up thunderstorms. We still need a lot more rain to fill  up our pond, but at least the grass and plants are being watered for me. LOL.   As far as in my whole life, probably the highest temperature I've experienced would be what we had last week, although I do remember times when the actual temperature was over 100.  I know some places in the country have hotter temps than that all the time, but they don't have the high humidity usually to go along with it, which truly makes it feel a lot hotter.  

When it is this hot we stay indoors with our air conditioning running around the clock. We avoid going out in the afternoon as much as possible, and try to get all of our errands and outdoor chores done in the early morning or after the sun starts going down in the evening.


3. What's been on your menu so far this summer?

Nothing extra special, I'm sorry to say. I try to avoid using the oven as much as possible, so very little baking is done or any kinds of meats/roasts that have to be cooked in the oven. However, yesterday afternoon was cloudy and rainy and a bit cooler, so I decided to cook a meatloaf in the oven. We can eat on that for a few days with sandwiches, etc.   We do eat more salads and fresh fruits in the summer.  

I had a root beer float last night. Does that count?

4. What is on your reading list this summer... anything to recommend to us? What's on your TV this summer. Any music you're liking this summer?

I have still been "binge reading" books from this author, Rhys Bowen. I am about finished with this stack, and will take them back to the library tomorrow, where there is at least one more waiting for me to pick up. I think I have a couple more on "hold", which means when they are available from other locations in our county they will transfer them to our library and I will be able to check them out. Ilove that we have this system so that we can order books online through their website and they keep me quite covered with good reading material.  I enjoy these mysteries by this author.  She is quite a prolific writer.

We were surprised to find this little book inside our mailbox last evening when I went out to get the mail. It was not something I had ordered, and it was literally just placed in our mailbox with a card on top addressed to us, but not sent through the mail. It was a gift to us from our Pastor, who apparently was passing by and put it in our mailbox.  We were surprised and blessed by the little gift, and we definitely called him afterwards to let him know how much we appreciated it.

The book is delightful. It is the story of the two ladies who were the original authors of the song "Jesus Loves Me".  They had written the words into a novel they had written, which was published into a book.

Here are the original lyrics:

The novel was entitled "Say and Seal", written in 1860 by Susan and Anna Warner. The Gospel Hymnwriter William B. Bradbury later read the book and the words to the song, and he added the chorus that we know so well and set it to the melody that we sing still today. Actually, we sing this little song every Sunday morning in our church when our children are dismissed to go to Children's Church.

The little book tells the life story of Susan and Anna Warner and their family. One thing that really stood out to my hubby and me (we read this out loud together last night...it's a short book and well worth the read...) was the fact that early on in their lives they had suffered some severe setbacks in their financial status along with other great sorrows.   This says below that "Anna Warner lived long enough to realize that had there been no black sheep (one of their brothers), no moments of bereavement, no stock market crash, no eviction from New York (city), no financial worries--if there had been none of those things, there would have been no books, no worldwide ministry, no thousands of inspired Cadets (West Point was across the Hudson River from their home, and the ladies did Bible studies with them in their home), and no "Jesus Loves Me."   (Page 91).

That little paragraph really spoke to us, because we have also experienced great setbacks and difficulties and sorrows in our lives, and yet God used those experiences to shape and mold us and literally make us stronger in our faith.  Oftentimes it's the things we fear the most ever happening that become the very things that help us become the people God wants us to become.  Those life experiences teach us to rely more on God and His faithfulness, and not so much on our own resources and strength. 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV

"9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 

10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

Does that last verse above remind you of something?   How about the first verse to the song Jesus Loves Me?

"Jesus loves me, this I know,

For the Bible tells me so;

Little ones to Him belong,

They are weak, but He is strong."

And the chorus:

"Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus loves me,

the Bible tells me so.

So yes, this was a great little gift to find in our mailbox last night. You know, I used to sing this song to my babies while they were still in my womb.  And I continued singing it to them every time I rocked them to sleep.  More than anything, I wanted them to know "Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so!"  If they never learned anything else from me, that was the one thing most important of all.

I guess this answered the question about what we are reading and what music we are liking this summer. 

As far as TV is concerned, hubby is watching the FIFA Soccer matches, and then together we watch things like "Maine Cabin Masters", "Castle Impossible", and the old Price is Right shows from when Bob Barker was still on there, among other things.  I am not into TV as much as he is. I enjoy reading and writing more than TV.

Well, friends, I guess that's all for now. It's been raining pretty hard while I was finishing this up. Another severe thunderstorm blew through.  

Oh, one last thing...I'm falling behind again in my photo-a-day challenge.  I never did do yesterday's "shadow" picture. It's been too cloudy!

And today (14), is "On the floor".  Let me take a look around and see what I can find...

Well, the only thing on MY floor is probably a lot of dirt and dust to be swept up, so I decided to look outside my window in my room with a view, and I saw this little Wren on the porch railing. 

Because it has been raining and is so cloudy, it's not very clear, plus I am taking this picture through a tinted window.

He was having a conversation with the Red Headed Woodpecker doorknocker.

And finally he flew down to the "floor" of the porch, although he is not very clearly seen here, but he is on the floor, so that should qualify for this picture! LOL.

And with that I will call this post finished!  I hope you are having a lovely summer day wherever you are! Blessings to all of you, and remember, "Yes, Jesus Loves Me (YOU!)... The Bible tells me so!"

Amen and good day.

Monday Monday~A New Week

Happy Monday Morning! I hope this Monday finds you all happy and ready to begin a new week full of joy, blessings, and pleasant surprises!  We never know what each day or week will bring...it's kind of like turning the page on a new chapter in an interesting mystery/adventure/romance book, and we can hardly wait to see what will happen next! My prayer for each of us is that each day will bring us only happy adventures.    

I posted these pictures on Facebook yesterday, along with this verse:

Psalm 118:24 NKJV

24 "This is the day the Lord has made;

We will rejoice and be glad in it."

I also shared the words to this familiar old song, "Morning Has Broken" (written by Eleanor Farjeon back in 1931)

1 Morning has broken

like the first morning,

blackbird has spoken

like the first bird.

Praise for the singing!

Praise for the morning!

Praise for them, springing

fresh from the Word!

2 Sweet the rain’s new fall

sunlit from heaven,

like the first dewfall

on the first grass.

Praise for the sweetness

of the wet garden,

sprung in completeness

where God’s feet pass.

3 Mine is the sunlight!

Mine is the morning

born of the one light

Eden saw play!

Praise with elation,

praise every morning,

God’s recreation

of the new day!

Such a beautiful way to start our week, don't you think?   

We did go to church yesterday, and it was a wonderful morning filled with praise and worship and learning from God's Word. That's the BEST way to start out the new week!  After church our son Scott came down from Jacksonville to have lunch with us and do his laundry. No, I don't mind that at all. He works hard outside in the extreme heat all week, and his apartment doesn't have any laundry facilities, so if he wants to drive over an hour to come do his laundry here and visit with us for the afternoon, I'm quite happy with that. We always enjoy his company.  Yesterday I didn't do anything big for lunch. We actually stopped off at our local grocery store and picked up some fresh fried chicken and some stuff to make a salad, and that was it! We didn't have to cook and there wasn't a lot of dishes to wash up, so that's just fine with me.  I also did make some Rice Krispie treats after lunch so Scott could take some home with him.   

Here's all that's left now! LOL. They were good!  I make mine a little different. In place of the 3 tbsp. of Butter, I use only 1 tbsp. butter, and 2 tbsp. of creamy Peanut Butter. (melted together). Then I also add to the Rice Krispies one cup of cheerios and 1/2 cup of lightly salted peanuts. (Adjust the amount of Rice Krispies to 5 cups instead of 6).  Mix all of that into the melted 10 oz. bag of mini marshmallows and butter/peanut butter mixture, and then pat into a buttered 13" x 9" baking pan, let cool and enjoy!  It's an easy treat to make on a day that is too hot to use the oven for baking something!

Well, I'm still trying to keep up with the July Photo A Day Challenge, but I tend to do them every other day since I don't write a post every day.  So where did I leave off?

The July 11th challenge was for a fruit and/or vegetable...so here you go:

I went outside to check our garden, and we still have some tomatoes growing!  Now, are they a fruit or a vegetable?

I checked my "trusty resources on AI" (ahem!) and this is the answer I found:

"A tomato is both, depending on how you look at it. Science says it is a fruit, but the law and culinary tradition classify it as a vegetable. [1]

• Botanically, it is a fruit: Because it develops from the flower of the tomato plant and contains seeds, it meets the exact scientific definition of a fruit. [1, 2]
• Culinarily, it is a vegetable: Chefs and dietitians treat it as a vegetable because of its savory flavor profile and the way it is used in cooking. [1, 2]
• Legally, it is a vegetable: In a famous 1893 Supreme Court case (Nix v. Hedden), the U.S. government ruled the tomato was a vegetable in order to apply specific tariffs and import taxes based on how people commonly eat and buy them. [1, 2]"

So now we all know!! It can be either or. I prefer to think of it as a vegetable, and I'm sure most of you do as well. I mean, you wouldn't put a tomato in a fruit salad, would you? 

Now, this is definitely a fruit! This extra sweet cantaloupe was so juicy and sweet, it was like eating candy!  It was really good!

I cut them up like this, and then we can have a small bowl full with our meals until it's all gone. How do YOU eat your cantaloupe? My Mom and Dad always cut them up into wedges and ate them right out of the rind with a spoon, much like you'd eat a piece of watermelon. It was usually considered something to eat with breakfast.  But I prefer my method, and I can eat it anytime!

Now, for the photo challenge for July 12, something "Soft"....

Yes, Blackie is quite soft and mostly sweet. (He has his moments...) LOL. And he likes soft places to sit; mostly in one of our laps, but this morning he chose this chair with a cushion and a pillow with Scripture Verses. And no, that verse there that says "Be still and know that I am God", is NOT referring to Blackie, although there are moments that I do believe he thinks it is! LOL. 

As for today's photo challenge (13), it is a "shadow".  Right now the sun is not shining and I don't see any good shadows around, so I will have to wait on this one and see what develops later.

Meanwhile:

One last thing!Click this LINK to more exciting news from my friend Katheryn Masterson, the author! This link is from Facebook, so if you are not on Facebook it may not pop up, so let me see if I can do it another way.   Here we go:

"I'm so excited to share that The Little Ladybug is now available!

This is the second book in my We Read Together series, designed to help children build confidence while enjoying storytime with a parent, grandparent, teacher, or caregiver.

Follow one curious little ladybug as she follows a butterfly into an unexpected adventure and discovers that the greatest wonders were waiting close to home all along.

Thank you to everyone who has supported my journey as an author. Every encouraging word, comment, share, and book purchase means more than you know.

If you know a young reader who loves nature, ladybugs, or storytime, I'd be so grateful if you'd share this post.

The Little Ladybug is available now on Amazon! "

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8C4QQ8J

I had no idea that my friend Katheryn was going to be such a prolific writer! She is truly talented and these little books are so great for young children...and for parents and grandparents to share with them! I haven't ordered this one yet, but I do intend to soon. But meanwhile, please check it out on Amazon and perhaps you can share it with others also who might be interested.  It's just so exciting to see such talented new authors out there!   I know Katheryn's grandparents would be SO proud of her! I know I am!

Okay, one last thing for sure this time: I saw this little meme on Facebook yesterday, and I thought it described me pretty well:

For those of you who know me, or have followed my posts here in blogland for a while, you will have to agree that it is describing me pretty much to a "T".  And I hope I never change.  And I give all glory to God for all these things that HE has created and done for us all to enjoy.

Isaiah 25:1 

"O Lord, You are my God.

I will exalt You,

I will praise Your name,

For You have done wonderful things;

Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth."

Amen.

Now, let's go have a wonderful day, shall we? Talk to you later!