:: Summer, Flightiness, Ruellia and Gratitude

It’s a new week and a new month—I’ve got things that I want to get done before the Fall. Yes! Fall.  I’m not ready for it yet. We’ve had such an uncommon summer; with rainy days, weeks even!  We’ve had cool temps. So much so, that I’ve had the A/C off for days at a time during July! I’m not complaining. I truly don’t mind the heat—but it just seems like this season has passed too quickly.

I like summer.


I’m making a list for the month –writing it down and keeping it handy. I’m going to see what I can get done. I get lazy with my list making.  In fact, I think I’m quite double minded about lists.  On the one hand I think; it limits the freedom of creativity and doing those things that pop up. On the other—it steers me and keeps me from flitting around like a butterfly; in search of the sweetest nectar! 

I admit.  I’m flighty like that.

  

I found this little flower in the bar ditch outside our fence--  I thought it looked a lot like Petunia; but the flower is much smaller.  I looked it up and I’m wondering…Is this Ruellia?   I’m not sure. But it’s pretty. I thought, if it is so hardy and can grow near the road in a dry climate—maybe digging it up and planting it in my flower beds might be a good idea. It would grow with hardly any help from me and I could see it more often.

I can’t remember why I was out in the bar-ditch (with Ruellia?).

 

Besides making list:  I’m taking some time to be a little more contemplative—thinking a little bit more about personal matters; health, home, and hospitality (family).   I’m spending more time in prayer— I don’t believe it is right to ask for more, without the gratefulness and gratitude for what I’ve already been given.

God has blessed me with much.

~~Passage I’m studying this week:      Paul’s Sermon on Mars Hill 
How are you getting on this late in summer?  Winding down?  Getting ready for back to school? Making a list?  Taking time to show gratitude?  Tell me, I’d love to know.

To get an idea of what might be on my list: you can read here  (more painting) and here

Til next time, Be Blessed!



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The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; ²⁵ nor is He served by human hands,as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; ²⁶ and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷ that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ for in Him we live and move and^[b]exist,