Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. – Hebrews 13:5
Spring arrived last week, and across the United States, from backyards to farms, men and women have begun to work the soil of their gardens, whether for crops to eat or flowers to adorn the table. While waiting for the plants to mature and give their harvest, the garden still needs attention.
Weeds need to be eliminated. Water and nutrients need to be supplied. The soil must be aerated regularly. While you are busy cultivating, God takes care of the miracle of growing!
Contentment in the Christian life is like a garden that needs continual tending. Contentment is a recurring theme in the New Testament. “Be content with what you have,” today’s verse says. Be content with food and clothes, Paul tells Timothy (1 Timothy 6:6-8), rather than craving for riches, which leads to ruin (verse 10). He discusses his own experience regarding contentment in Philippians 4:10-15.
Richard Burroughs, an English Puritan, published The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment in 1648, calling it “that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
You can cultivate contentment by enriching the soil of your heart through prayer and thanksgiving, eliminating the things of the world that choke out your time with the Lord, and tending to the study of His Word as a priority. This requires the same disciplines as tending a spring garden. In return, you deepen the understanding of Christ’s sweet, soul-satisfying sufficiency in your life.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing#devotional
Author, above, is no ‘gardener’, promoting the abolition of Nature’s foundation of soil & pollinator habitat. “Weeds need to be Eliminated” ? Those weeds are Nature’s Crown Jewels. Since eliminating weeds, notice lack of insects on car windshields? “Soil needs to be aerated regularly” ? God already set system in place to aerate His soil, for you. Those ‘weeds’ killed, God gave us to feed His people/soil/wildlife.
Once chemical manufacturers , post WWII, needed a new sales market, they targeted the American housewife with her new baby…..protect that baby from BUGS. Here we are, no bugs on windshields. Perhaps a simple starter book,
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Before Paul Tukey, mentioned that WWII tidbit at a lecture, I had already learned gardening with Nature while studying historic gardens across Europe for 20+ years. What I went to study, Garden Design, was there in full historic quantity, and so much more. Those historic gardens retained their historic low meadows, mowed at 2-3 heights. No lawns to be seen.
Easier, cheaper to maintain than a lawn, no fertilizer/chemicals, the mowing heights another layer of historic Garden Design.
More, the mixed flowers/weeds in a yard of low mixed meadow, have many edibles for your table, and flowers atop it too.
Adore looking out my windows early morning, the little song birds diving into my mixed meadow, surrounding my ca. 1900 home. Most become engulfed in the flowers, becoming invisible. God’s plan, giving them food, and cover from threats.
Think of traditional lawn, and our groundwater. Chemicals sprayed, and fertilizer spread, all leach into our groundwater. Along the way, killing soil microbes we need for our health and the health of Nature.
Thank you for reading this far, will stop, you get the idea. Garden & Be Well…
Poyeema,
Thank you for such a thoroughly thoughtful and enjoyable post – and timely. Because we have so many animals who eat, play, and sleep in “weed” strewn pastures and other areas of our property, no chemicals of any kind are ever allowed. Even the feral cat colony residents enjoy lolling “contentedly” in the camouflage. And, with well water, of course leaching is of great concern.
The areas we try to keep somewhat neater, just as an aesthetic endeavor, have been shrinking almost into oblivion as we age.
I think today, I will be more content enjoying things as they are (with maybe a few weed pulls here and there!)
Trying to put this somewhere where people can see—last Dec in Prayer Request I told the story of my daughter/SIL and their journey thru IVF and then surrogacy. THANK YOU for thoughts and prayers. March 27 Connor made his way into the world. He’s a real keeper. We get to meet him tomorrow. A special blessing to Nic for a gift that can never be repaid. May God always watch over you and your family.
Congratulations to all of you! I have two great nieces to love because of that process.
Welcome Connor. And all the little souls who are allowed to join us in this world! Congratulations!
Joe K!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sooooo happy for you and your family. Hope we can see some pictures of little Connor when you can. Happiest birthday to him and blessing on you and yours, PaPa!
Joe,
Congratulations on a delightful new beginning Grandpa! My daughter works in that field. Everyday she sees Gods design right before her eyes. Sometimes when folks are casually listening, I may call her and ask, “Are you making a baby?” It always causes those casual listeners to gasp!
Many blessing on your newfound joy. An arrow in your SIL’s quiver!
Dear Poyeema and Burrolady I do so agree
Yesterday. I posted to Betsy, re her delightful postings on Hedgehogs, a short u.k. video re how Hedgehogs need help to survive especially in crowded, cemented-over, modern Britain, … not much natural habitat left.
We need more people everywhere to plant ‘wild flowers .and leave natural plantings for butterflies and bees etc who need them. Instead of spray with herbicide road sides and other poisoned areas there should be masses of wild plants allowed to fill the dead spaces. and left organically.eg Milkweed. Joe Pye Weed ( eg look good at the back of a flower bed where a variety of heights of plants is needed. Now that’s the kind of Green Awareness we really do need!
I hope this posting does not go into’ Awaiting Approval’ as so many of my harmless, kindly-meant, light-hearted sometimes, sad sometimes, rubbish postings inexplicably do, then into a black hole. Where some posters seem to go too..
Got it jb. 👍 🌼 🌸 🌻 🌹
We’ve had a relatively large amount of rain this spring (for AZ).
There are purple, yellow. white, and pink wildflowers lining the roads and filling the fields. Glorious!
Poyeema your article couldn’t be more timely growing food. WeThePeople will need
to do this as we move into our future. Thank you and Peace
I lament the loss of my gardens, Poyeema. As Spring broke here, I got a little forlorn driving two days ago missing my gardens.
You are so right on.
Since moving to this single story apartment, I’ve had to get creative with the patio – so many rules, though. I keep going bigger every year, but try to keep it really nice so nobody fusses at me. I’m one of the few apartments here with a full line of decorative shrubs – so the birds will come and hide out there. We are forbidden from feeding them – but it doesn’t mean I can’t do my best to give them as pretty a habitat as I can. We try.
I extend the shrubs with a visual hedge and encircle the patio – so we can sit out there with a little bit of privacy. Tons of very bright flowers and aromatics. I need a handyman who can build me things – I want a rolling trellis that I can grow vine vegetables on – like cucumbers and peppers along with my tomatoes.
This dog hunts!
Good morning all and have a great day.
Morning, Monti 😘 There’s a whole lot of intelligence behind those gorgeous eyes. Who’s a good boy….we know the answer, and so does he 😊
Good morning Betsy.
Labs are special for sure.
my sister swears hers has a sense of humor.
I would swear it, too, linwik. Ours are complete clowns and can be downright demanding. Politely, but definitely insistent!
Morning, Bets
We’ve had so many wonderful labs, I always think they must tire of hearing, “good boy and good girl.” They don’t!
Last night our 2 decided to take a late night dip in their stock tank just before coming in. 🙃 A bit frustrating for sure, but, they’re like, “very refreshing, ready for bed!”
Good girls!
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I know they are wonderful dogs, sis. My youngest has a black one. Yesterday she phoned me while she was waiting for her 3+1 to get out of school. She took a few snaps of Jet and sent them. Oh my!! 💕💕💕💕💕 He is the centrepiece of their family and so so loved..
But labs do what they do, right? The stock tank you say? 😂😂😂
Oh yes…very Good Girls 😍👍🏻😌
Years ago we had to sink the stock tank into the ground and add interior concrete steps when the oldsters became too lame to get in.
Then we wound up with my dad’s very old smaller doggie. He tried to drown in it, so after I jumped into that cold sorta yucky water to grab him, we built a fence around it. That’s gone now, unless we should need it again!
Always adjusting!
What a beautiful dog, Monti. Yours? I love it when pets have jobs. 🙂
LOLOL, Val 😂
Anybody else disgusted by Bannon (who certainly knew enough about sea and anchor details to expect the Key Bridge event was accidental) and Lara Logan’s exploitation of the event as a terror attack?
Logan was played by a source, or happily played her part.
Bannon was being Bannon.
Irresponsible at best.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2024/03/gateway-pundit-just-wants-fear-porn.html
It does seem as if Lara is being played by sources. And I got disgusted with Bannon back when he was inside Trump’s admin trying to disrupt everything.
But, there are major discrepancies that need to be answered.
There is a big difference between video and that track. The track has a minor drift. The drift starts far away. The video has significant turns. Made close in to the bridge. And that briefing Sundance put up mentions multiple commands to turn. I haven’t checked the video timeline with the briefing timeline, but the briefing is similar to the video.
On the video, the ship came in from the POV’s left, requiring the ship to turn right to go through the bridge. The ship went too far right and hit the bridge.
On the track, the ship was in a channel and only had to go straight. It drifted to the right, needing a correction to the left that never happened.
The final position and angle of the ship look like it could have been from the track, if the drift started in close and was quite strong.
Either way, the ship ended up perfectly missing the dolphin meant to protect the bridge. I am not even sure that is possible for a long drift.
So we know that there was last minute steering that caused the ship to miss the dolphin but caused the ship to hit the bridge. There is still room for this to be an accident. Lord knows I’ve oversteered a car on wet slippery roads. But this ain’t a car. And the pilots are professional.
Speaking of professionals, don’t airplane pilots practice dealing with emergencies? Especially now that we have simulators? I wonder if harbor pilots do the same?
Only had the ‘shiphandling for airdales’ course at little creek and 3 deployments embarked desron staff with lots of observations from bridge/bridge wing.
What we know in extremis – Port anchor had been dropped and was dragging, power on/off/on, throttle likely back full, huge freeboard for wind effect.
= Fully credible recipe for what we got.
I disagree… I watched and listened to that segment… seemed pretty logical to me…wouldn’t dismiss it so easily… given what can be done by hackers these days…🤔
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think about all the train derailment/toxic chemical spills, planes military/public crashes, landings, parts of
planes coming off in flight, now boats, cargo ships, remember the Evergreen own my
hilliary clinton guess what was found in the containers? Do you really think these are accidents? peace
you want the truth watch the simpsons.
I’ll be here today…in case anybody wants me 😎😉
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Blessings to all!!! 🙏🏻🕊
Another winner!!!! Love it.
Morning, We 😊 Plenty of room for all who wish to join me!
Good morning dear Bet! I’ll join you right after I get all the chores done. ❤️😍
Well hurry up, dear brother!!! 😁 I’ll put the kettle on………..😘👍🏻
All those books 🇺🇸😁🇺🇸
You’re thinking dusting, are you, Mr jay??😉 One thing for sure…provided you have someone do your catering, there would never be a need to leave that room. Bliss!!
Now that Kim and I are “living in a van down by the river” we may set sail your direction.
Love the bookmark! Stick it in a copy of “The Thing On the Doorstep”!
Guess what I did today???? I couldn’t wait. I will run these pots in and out of doors until the weather stabilizes, but we are in for some pretty weather these next few days.
Love nasturtiums- They are easy to grow and…..you can add those flowers to a salad. They’re very good for you, and have a wonderful peppery taste.
I had no idea you could eat them! These grow beautifully on my patio on a shepherd’s hooks.
We get really hard winds here, so I plant them in the hanging baskets on a shepherd’s hook at two different heights about 1 ft and 2 ft off the ground. They get pretty tall and “cascade” and make a lovely presentation and the wind doesn’t whip them around too bad.
Planted Snap Dragons in a planter pot and Morning Glories on a trellis with three small pots, so they’ll cascade down the back wall.
Still need to go and purchase some tomato plants. I may not be able to eat them anymore, but kiddo eats them by the bowl-full in the summer. Going to go with the Sweet 100’s, the yellow pear-shaped, and maybe a small heirloom. Those make nice visual hedges – but I have to fill the bases with rock and double-cage them to keep them from getting unruly.
My poor Peace Rose emerged twice over the winter in the garage – it wanted to keep growing so bad after I cut it down for the winter. Those sprouts died off and now I’m thinking it’s not going to make it. It was so beautiful and smelled lovely. I hope it comes back – it’s in a heavy clay pot.
Ooh! How about a bowl of freshly picked tomatoes with some nasturtium blossoms and a drizzle of olive oil? Mmmmmm!
Jews for Jesus?
Or, Jews for Yeshua, which was His Hebrew name.
Yeshua, born in Israel, born a Jew, born of a Jewish mother (real name, Miriam!) of the house of King David, born of the tribe of Judah, circumcized the eighth day, raised a Jew, worshipped in synagogue and Temple, lived as a Jew, fulfilled explicit Old Testament (Torah) prophecies of where, why, when, and how Messiah would be born, was rejected by the Jews (as prophesied), crucified by the Gentiles (as prophesied), was buried, resurrected, and ascended to Heaven (as prophesied) and is soon to return from Heaven as our victorious, glorious, conquering King — exactly as prophesied!
At the very least He was the greatest Jew who ever lived. At most He is exactly who He claimed to be: the Son of God, Israel’s Messiah and King.
Why NOT Jews for Jesus? 😀
Amen!!!
There is such a one, and with many thousands of adherents in Israel
https://jewsforjesus.org/
and their Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@jewsforjesus
Please Check out Baby Olivia’s Story:
https://babyolivia.liveaction.org/share/
I wanted to share Dr. Malone Substack on Human Development and Abortion; that’s where I saw Baby Olivia’s Story…
It’s worth your time, seriously.
EVENING BLESSINGS
Kiddo was working 4 to 7 PM tonight, so I high-tailed it to the grocery to purchase the ingredients for her cake. Felt like I was on a reality baking show, but only got the cakes baked and the frosting made – but it’s not decorated yet.
Our grocery has mostly self-checkout stations and I got all the way up to the front and was next in line, when I realized I needed one more ingredient, as I wasn’t sure how much I had at home. Had to muscle through about a dozen other shoppers in the narrow line to swim against the tide to get back into the store.
Finally, got turned back around and got the checkout line and NOTHING would scan for me. The Associate had to keep coming over to fix the scanner. I go to lift the 4 lb (!) bag of confectioner’s sugar and my fingernail popped right through it and POOFED powdered sugar ALL OVER ME. (That might be a little conspicuous, dontcha think?)
Made two bundt-style cakes. Both marbled – one strawberry / vanilla and the other chocolate/ vanilla – and stirred frozen berries (blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries) into the mixes. But I failed to flour the fruit first, so sure hoping that the cakes come out okay. The chocolate one was finished a full twenty minutes earlier than the strawberry, but it had the majority of the berries in it.
Found a mermaid themed flower arrangement with roses and a preserved starfish (odd – tomorrow is “Mermaid Day” – hope I’m not indulging in some weird paganism). The arrangement was really pretty and I found a long slim vase. Thinking I might see if it will fit into the middle of the cake – because I am weird and try to do unique things.
Made pink and periwinkle buttercream and going to assemble the thing when she goes to bed. I am NOT a decorator – not in any way, shape, or form – and this thing will look like a 2 year old made it.
Hope it tastes good. It will not fit in my cake carrier. Gulp.
I did get the kitchen TOTALLY cleaned up, lysol’d, and hurried up and put Beer Brats with Onions in the oven to cover the smell. I’m kind of sneaky like that.
I’ll have one of each, please – and maybe a little bubbly?!
Look at day 5 and 6. Good chance that the probability will go up from the 15% shown to 30%. Both days hold the potential for major outbreaks. Cold forcing down on warm and moist air. Possibility of snow after the severe weather passes. It’s that time of year. So keep informed if your in or near the yellow areas.
Found in the bin… 🙁
Another one in the bin! Please check for it.
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzany9kt2DA
Hebrews 4:12-13 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (ESV)