Friday Foto Friends-There's Always Something to See!

"When morning gilds the sky, our hearts awaking cry:

"May Jesus Christ be praised!"

in all our work and prayer
we ask his loving care:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

2 To God, the Word on high,
the hosts of angels cry:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let mortals too upraise
their voices in hymns of praise:
May Jesus Christ be praised!


3 Let earth's wide circle round
in joyful notes resound:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let air and sea and sky
from depth to height reply:
May Jesus Christ be praised!


4 Be this, when day is past,
of all our thoughts the last:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

The night becomes as day
when from the heart we say:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

5 Then let us join to sing
to Christ, our loving King:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

Be this the eternal song
through all the ages long:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

I hope you enjoyed singing that lovely old hymn of praise with me this morning.  When I look at the skies in the morning and the evening I often break out into songs of praise for God's majesty and His masterpieces painted in the skies.  I just can't help it!

This Psalm also declares what human hearts have felt since the beginning of time...

Psalm 19:1-6

1 The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament shows His handiwork.

2 Day unto day utters speech,

And night unto night reveals knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language

Where their voice is not heard.

4 Their line has gone out through all the earth,

And their words to the end of the world.

In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.

6 Its rising is from one end of heaven,

And its circuit to the other end;

And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

And so these are my photos for this Friday.  When I woke up this morning I bemoaned the fact that I had nothing new to share with you. Then I looked outside and saw the sunrise...and also remembered the pictures I took a couple of nights ago of the sunset...and then a couple of the full moon in the early hours of the morning the other day...and God put it all together!  I love it when He reminds me that His beauty and glory is all around us...we just have to open our eyes to see!

The only other new photo I had was this one:   This little visitor came up on our back porch yesterday and stood there looking in at us like she was seeing into another world...

And when she got bored with staring at us she decided to jump back down off the porch and go on her merry way, stalking birds and lizards and other more interesting things...

She is one of several neighborhood kitties that wander around in search of interesting prey.  They are fed by one of the neighbors, and possibly belong to someone, but they like to come and visit us and our pond every so often. I don't mind as long as they stay away from our birdies...

So, I have some wonderful news and answers to prayer from my last post:  If you recall, I told you that our car AC had gone out and we were going to most likely have to replace it yesterday.  Well, Praise God! When the repairman did the diagnostics on the system he couldn't find anything wrong with the AC itself at all! The only thing he did find was our cabin air filter was VERY dirty and somehow had gotten twisted and stuck up under the dash board or something like that...and so they put in a new cabin air filter, and the AC works perfectly!!!  The charge was less than $100., as opposed to possibly more than a $1000.00!!!  Now that's what I call a big answer to prayer!!  We definitely did a happy dance when we got that news!!!  

Also, in reading some of your comments on that previous blog, some of you expressed that you were not aware that our kids had sold Dixie Cottage.  Apparently you missed a post way back on March 30th,, where I told you about it way at the end of the post.  You most likely got side tracked by all of the cute photos of the then baby Sand Hill Cranes and other birds, etc., and didn't read the news at the end.  Our kids had decided that they wanted to sell the business because they had other things they wanted to be free to do, like spend time with our DIL's Dad up in Minnesota, etc., and so thankfully, one of the vendors in the store decided she would like to take over the business when she heard it was available...and so that happened on April 1st, and she has been running it ever since.  It it still known as Dixie Cottage and is in the same space, etc., and our son does still put furniture in the store for sale.  But at the same time, when a business owner in the next city over heard that Benton was selling the business, he asked him if he would like to come build furniture for his store. He set him up with a nice woodworking shop in the back of his place of business, and provides all the equipment, wood, etc., and Benton builds unfinished pine furniture to sell there at the business called "Son of a Doodle".  (I know, strange name...but it works!)

These are some examples of the furniture he has been building: 

Rose still works at Home Depot, and in their spare time they also still have their Etsy site: BRCoastal Rustic Decor, for which they create coastal rustic bathroom shelves and ship them all over the country!  So they stay quite busy!!

So that's it for today,  folks!  I started out with nothing to show, and little by little, with God's help, there's quite a lot to see!  

I pray that you and yours will have a lovely and beautiful day and weekend. When you think there's nothing new out there or that life is boring or dull...take a look around you, and you will see that God has something waiting for you everywhere you look!!