Day 12, Second Sunday of Lent

Dear Father, I thank you and I praise you because in Jesus Christ I have the confidence of salvation. Because of your death on the cross, and your resurrection from death, you have opened the door for me to share in life everlasting. Help me to take up my crosses and “keep my pain,” so that my own life may be a living sign of your love. 

Mark 8:34-37

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? 

Lenten Action

I will find “giving” opportunities today. I will clean out my closet and donate clean clothing to a charity. I will sweep a sidewalk and clean a porch for a neighbor.

Day 11, Saturday of the First Week of Lent

T  R U  S  T

“Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.”
Jeremiah 17:7

I stretch out my arms and hands and trust, trust, trust. Father, my great and wonderful God, help me to rely on you and your saving Grace. Help me to rely on YOU, instead of myself…. and to know that you are always there with me. I know that you are a giving and a forgiving God. I trust you, and I will not be afraid.

Lenten Action

I will make a list of the gifts I take for granted: life, sight, hearing, movement, opportunity. I will keep this list with me to offset the disappointments that threaten to overwhelm my good judgment and undermine my trust in your plan for me.

Day 10, Friday of the First Week of Lent

“Come back to me, give me all your burdens, all your worries, fears, and anxieties. Trust that with me you will find rest.”

Loving God, teach me how to accept life’s pains and sorrows so that through them, I will find a deeper love of you, and an everlasting hope in your promises.

Lenten Action

Today I will show thankfulness and a grateful heart on a few occasions. I will look for the littlest opportunity to have a grateful heart. I will think back on a past sorrow, and in it, I will find a positive outcome.

Lenten and Easter Study

Today we had an inquiry about our Lenten devotions.  We are using a study guide created and written by Henri M Nouwen. This written journey takes the reader from Ash Wednesday through the second Sunday of Easter.  It’s a reminder that God loves us and accepts us even in our human state.

This study guide was provided by our church and we like it very much.  This is the second time we have used it for our Lenten devotional.

Day 9, Thursday of the First Week of Lent

Jesus, I come to you this morning. I am fully present with you…..right now. I pray for, and humbly ask you to give me a fearless heart and free me from my doubts and fears. I cannot do this without you. Create in me a space where YOU can be with me. Only you can give me a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind and a new body. With your love, and your presence, I will be transformed by your…. perfect love.   Amen!

Lenten Action

God will be present with me, if I let him in.
I will take time today to be alone, and to be aware of the “Holy Spirit”within me.

Birds and Blooms, March 2021, Just Arrived

Hello Gardeners….. our March issue just arrived. If you want to see some of these birds in this issue, take a walk or place a few sunflower seeds on the ground near your window or door. Birds will come, especially as today proves to be a sunny and warm day. Praises!!

We visited at Greenstreet Gardens yesterday afternoon. A flower that loves the chill is “Primrose.”  We are told they will be showing up sometime today.  Pretty to plant right now in the yard. They love the cold and reward you now – and next year too and they are very economical. They will come back again next spring. We cannot resist. We will definitely get one today.

 

Day 8, Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

Forgiveness is something we have to find from within ourselves. It sets free the other, but also ourselves. If we do not forgive, we carry those with us, who have wounded us, or we pull them with us as a heavy load.

…..dearest God my ever patient and loving supporter, I ask for your forgiveness. I give you my wounded anger. I pray you will free my soul to follow your will. My heart is sorry for having offended thee. You God are deserving of all my love. I confess my sin now….

“Forgive, and you will be forgiven, give and it will be given to you.” Luke 6: 37-38

Lenten Action 

I have emotional baggage I wish to take out of my life. I confess it, and I ask for your forgiveness. I want to rid myself of it. Today, I will give a gift of helping someone else who needs my “hand.”

Amen, Father!

Classic Hardcover Book Set, Four Volumes, Abraham Lincoln, The War Years, by Carl Sandburg

Excited to share this item from my #etsy shop: Abraham Lincoln, The War Years, Four Volume Set https://etsy.me/3qSdMG3

Book, The Private World of Katherine Hepburn – Etsy

A memory in photographs and text about the later private life of Hollywood legend – Katherine Hepburn. One of the most photographed faces in stardom. This book is a memoir of her “private world.” A fascinating collaboration of 150 photographs. She was an American Hollywood icon who preferred to be called “Kate.” A rather simple woman; fiercely independent. John Bryson was the editor and photographer. Kate said she did this book because she trusted him. Her own words were dictated to create this extraordinary look into the places she loved the most. For Sale on Etsy at $45.

The Book jacket is “ever so slightly” frayed around the edges. A classic however, and if you admired her movies you will love this book. Kate was not a fancy female. She was just “who she was.” This book gives you a rare glimpse into her rather un-fancy and down to earth lifestyle. Quite the dame she was!

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Please view our most recent Etsy listing. Six turquoise vases. Various sizes. All glass. Purchase the entire collection as a “smalls lot.”  One price for all (6). Very pretty assortment of turquoise colors. Vases  for Mother’s Day, with fresh flowers are always a lovely gift.

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