Good morning from cloudy Atlanta. It’s supposed to get up to 87° today so not unbearably hot although it is humid since it rained last night. Things continue to be very green and thick. I have never seen so many green holly berries on my bush before.
Praying God’s peace over all the blog family today.
Morning! Humid again after crazy thunderstorms last night. My poor petunias are hanging their heads low!
But thankful for this unusual year of moisture and green forest floor! The pine needles are so soft I can walk on them in my bare feet.. I rarely wear shoes!
What do you make of this quote out of Streams in the Desert?
Giving thanks always for all things unto God (Ephesians 5:20).
No matter what the source of the evil, if you are in God and surrounded by Him as by an atmosphere, all evil has to pass through Him before it comes to you.
Therefore you can thank God for everything that comes, not for the sin of it, but for what God will bring out of it and through it.
May God make our lives thanksgiving and perpetual praise, then He will make everything a blessing.
That is a lovely quote and excellent thought, to give thanks even for the biting fleas in life’s hardships like Corrie Ten Boom’s sister did at the concentration camp.
The ladys’ retreat I attended recently spoke of not asking why, but rather to ask what will God do about this? We can ask that and wait with anticipation to see how He will turn it for good.
We are the exact opposite of everyone. It is so very dry here. I usually need to mow twice a week until August. Our grass is brown and I haven’t mowed for over two weeks.
Husband has been called in to work to help in case of an evacuation of Waskesiu Lake due to fire (it’s not close enough yet, but they’re prepping).
The two week forecast shows no precipitation at all. It’s very weird.
It has been unusually wet here, too. In spring, perhaps April, the reservoir was the highest I’ve ever seen it, and not only has it gone a lot higher up the bank since, but it has never gone down even to that “high” spot. For the second half of July, which is usually dry here, that’s amazing. (June is sometimes wet here, maybe every third year in our limited experience, but this was an exceptionally wet spring followed by a very unusual summer, in which we continue to get regular storms dumping several inches of rain.) It has been a really good year for insects–they don’t usually get really going until about now–and it’s great to see the trees so green. But it’s definitely unusual. And I never did get to watch the osprey nest this year, since the waterline went so high up the bank and basically put the forest underwater. It will be weird to see what the “shoreline” looks like once the water goes back down, since several months underwater has to have changed it completely.
We have a couple of osprey nests we drive by quite often. However, they are up on electrical poles, so it is difficult to see much of the birds. I do have to laugh at the closest nest to us. The bird grabbed up some orange plastic from road work or something and it is included in the nest. Quite fancy.
Well I think I have killed off several of my new plants. Two by overwatering and one by underwatering. Can you tell that this is all new for me?
Had a good time at Archie’s family birthday party this evening. God is good. My youngest took me out back where she has a shed workroom. I gave her my sewing machine, but we’re still calling it mine. She showed me all of her new crafty projects and raved about my machine. I helped her figure out several other things that it could do. Fun
~ “. . . It can be helpful to realize that my problems are not as severe as they seem to me in the moment. But while I think that advice can be helpful, I don’t think that’s enough. We need to let people who are struggling, even with things we think are small, know that God can help them and that He wants to! He tells us to cast all our cares on Him (1 Peter 5:7), and there are no limits on that open-ended promise. You can take all of the Psalms and go to God for help, without fear that you will be labelled as “dramatic.”
The good news is that there is no problem too big for God, and there is no problem too small for God. The good news is that God has an infinite store of inexhaustible grace for our ordinary, mundane problems.” ~
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Good morning from cloudy Atlanta. It’s supposed to get up to 87° today so not unbearably hot although it is humid since it rained last night. Things continue to be very green and thick. I have never seen so many green holly berries on my bush before.
Praying God’s peace over all the blog family today.
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Morning! Humid again after crazy thunderstorms last night. My poor petunias are hanging their heads low!
But thankful for this unusual year of moisture and green forest floor! The pine needles are so soft I can walk on them in my bare feet.. I rarely wear shoes!
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I think we may have to build an ark! There will be no lawn mowing for a while.
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What do you make of this quote out of Streams in the Desert?
Giving thanks always for all things unto God (Ephesians 5:20).
No matter what the source of the evil, if you are in God and surrounded by Him as by an atmosphere, all evil has to pass through Him before it comes to you.
Therefore you can thank God for everything that comes, not for the sin of it, but for what God will bring out of it and through it.
May God make our lives thanksgiving and perpetual praise, then He will make everything a blessing.
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That is a lovely quote and excellent thought, to give thanks even for the biting fleas in life’s hardships like Corrie Ten Boom’s sister did at the concentration camp.
The ladys’ retreat I attended recently spoke of not asking why, but rather to ask what will God do about this? We can ask that and wait with anticipation to see how He will turn it for good.
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Jamie Winship, whose videos I’ve shared here before, tells us not to ask why, but “what do you want me to do with this information, Lord?”
“HOW do you want me to respond to this?”
“Where are you in this situation?”
“Who do you want me to be in this situation?”
You know, those 5-Ws and an H–but don’t ask WHY?
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https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/93469887-living-fearless-exchanging-the-lies-of-the-world-for-the-liberating-tru
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We are the exact opposite of everyone. It is so very dry here. I usually need to mow twice a week until August. Our grass is brown and I haven’t mowed for over two weeks.
Husband has been called in to work to help in case of an evacuation of Waskesiu Lake due to fire (it’s not close enough yet, but they’re prepping).
The two week forecast shows no precipitation at all. It’s very weird.
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It has been unusually wet here, too. In spring, perhaps April, the reservoir was the highest I’ve ever seen it, and not only has it gone a lot higher up the bank since, but it has never gone down even to that “high” spot. For the second half of July, which is usually dry here, that’s amazing. (June is sometimes wet here, maybe every third year in our limited experience, but this was an exceptionally wet spring followed by a very unusual summer, in which we continue to get regular storms dumping several inches of rain.) It has been a really good year for insects–they don’t usually get really going until about now–and it’s great to see the trees so green. But it’s definitely unusual. And I never did get to watch the osprey nest this year, since the waterline went so high up the bank and basically put the forest underwater. It will be weird to see what the “shoreline” looks like once the water goes back down, since several months underwater has to have changed it completely.
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We have a couple of osprey nests we drive by quite often. However, they are up on electrical poles, so it is difficult to see much of the birds. I do have to laugh at the closest nest to us. The bird grabbed up some orange plastic from road work or something and it is included in the nest. Quite fancy.
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rain, no rain all summer for us. Very dry.
Well I think I have killed off several of my new plants. Two by overwatering and one by underwatering. Can you tell that this is all new for me?
Had a good time at Archie’s family birthday party this evening. God is good. My youngest took me out back where she has a shed workroom. I gave her my sewing machine, but we’re still calling it mine. She showed me all of her new crafty projects and raved about my machine. I helped her figure out several other things that it could do. Fun
Just good family visiting. and very rare.
Jo
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That sounds like some precious time, Jo.
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This is encouraging. . .
~ “. . . It can be helpful to realize that my problems are not as severe as they seem to me in the moment. But while I think that advice can be helpful, I don’t think that’s enough. We need to let people who are struggling, even with things we think are small, know that God can help them and that He wants to! He tells us to cast all our cares on Him (1 Peter 5:7), and there are no limits on that open-ended promise. You can take all of the Psalms and go to God for help, without fear that you will be labelled as “dramatic.”
The good news is that there is no problem too big for God, and there is no problem too small for God. The good news is that God has an infinite store of inexhaustible grace for our ordinary, mundane problems.” ~
https://www.proclaimanddefend.org/2025/07/10/extraordinary-grace-for-ordinary-problems/
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