Earlier this week hubby and I decided to take a different morning walk than our usual through the woods walk. There is a very nice walking path down through the center of the historical section of our little town. It apparently follows what used to be the train tracks through town. It was a delightful, quiet beautiful walk, past some of the lovely older homes.
Like this one. I thought I had shared pictures of this with you before, but apparently I only showed them on Facebook in a group that I follow called "Old Florida".
So if you've seen these pictures before, pardon me. I get confused sometimes as to where and what I've been and done...comes with age, they tell me...
Like this lovely old home...it has some age on it...about 100 years to be exact. But I don't know anything more about it. It does not appear to be actively lived in, but I know according the the tax records that someone bought it about 10 years ago, and it is being maintained.
Can't you just imagine sitting up on that upper verandah, enjoying a nice summer breeze and sipping some southern sweet iced tea? (I prefer mine unsweet, with lemon, thank you!)
I really was tempted to walk up to that front door and knock on it, just to see if anyone was home. But my courage failed me. Maybe if one of you were here with me we could get up our courage together. Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe they'd invite us in for a cup of tea and some cookies or cake...
Yes, I would LOVE to explore this old house. I am going to keep an eye on it, and if I ever see anyone there, I just might get up my nerve to seek out an invitation...LOL.
Anyway, back to our walk...there is another lovely big house over across the way from that one above, but I was more interested in taking a picture of the wonderful sign in their yard, which stays up year round:
"Christ is Risen", and the other smaller sign to its right says, "And Coming Again".
I think that is a good reminder for us to ponder upon in these days of turbulence in our land.
I also enjoyed their lovely white picket fence and this nice park bench to sit upon when we got tired from walking:
I hope we will take this walk more often. There are more pictures I'd like to take along the way.
Meanwhile, this past week I had a little setback with my neck issues. Two weeks to the day from when I had the epidural in my neck for pain and inflammation, I had another major spasm that was very painful. That was very disconcerting for me, as I was hoping the epidural medicines would last a bit longer. There are no guarantees on this procedure, and so I must continue to persevere with my physical therapy and exercises and prayer. I did have PT that same day, and I came home with this lovely blue bandage. It is not an ordinary bandage...it is to help with nerve conduction or something like that in my arm. The therapist said I had something called double crush syndrome. After he manipulated and stretched and basically tortured me (not really, but it felt like it), he put this bandaid on it and said to leave it there all week and not try to take it off except with baby oil or something like that so it wouldn't pull off my skin when I remove it. Thankfully, whatever it is supposed to be doing seems to be helping, so I guess I'll do what I'm told.
Okay, this is a picture of a grocery delivery truck from our local grocery store. I just think it is cute and I wanted to take a picture of it. Signs of the times...grocery delivery trucks!
And this family stopped by for a visit last evening:
The Sand Hill Crane family came for hors d'oeuvres of some tasty bugs and grubs.
Now I will close with these photos. As I was sitting at my desk last evening I looked out the window and I couldn't help but see that heart in that tall pine tree over there across the pond. Do you see it?
I know the picture is grainy and not too good because it was dark and this was taken through the window, but can you see the shape of the heart in that tree? I had never noticed it before and last night it just stood out so clearly to me, I wondered why I had not seen it before.
But if you look at this picture below, taken the night before, it is there, plain as day...I just wasn't focused on it.
That heart was there all the time...much like God's love for you and me. It's there all the time, and we tend to overlook it when we are so focused on other things around us. We get to a point where we think God must not love us or we just don't think about Him at all. There's an old song I remember that kind of speaks to this:
He Was There All The Time
by Bill and Gloria Gaither,
Sung by Sue Dodge
Time after time I was searching for peace in some void
I was trying to blame all my ills on this world I was in
Surface relationships used me till I was done in
But all the while someone was begging to free me from sin
Chorus
He was there all the time
He was there all the time
Waiting patiently in line
He was there all the time
Never again will I search for a fake rainbows end
Now that I’ve found the answer my life is just starting to rhyme
Sharing each new day with Him is a breath of fresh life
Oh what I've missed He's been waiting right here all the time
Chorus
He was there all the time
He was there all the time
Waiting patiently in line
He was there all the time
I hope you enjoyed that song...and that it spoke to you today...Remember, Jesus is always there for us, even when we aren't even looking for Him...He's still there...waiting patiently in line!
Have a blessed and wonderful weekend, my friends.
