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Perry the Platypus

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Just when you think your life is made up of sheer survival, is boring and mundane,  you find yourself  designing and sewing a Perry the Platypus costume for a seven year old!

I hadn’t even heard of Perry. I certainly didn’t know what Perry looked like. Never mind say the parents. You can Google him. This is not much comfort. I can Google me too.

If you are in the same mess, watch for a Perry costume appearing somewhere under my googled name. Wow! What a credit to have on my resume!

Doesn’t God have the best ideas for shaking you out of your sad self, your staid comfort zone? You gotta love his sense of humour.

Psalm 30:5b-The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter (MSG).

 

 

Here I Am Again

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I’ve been missing you all! I have a new look to the page. Hope you like it.

As well you can now buy my books right off the site!

Just think, I got my own shopping cart without going to Walmart, Shoppers, or Zehrs.

Thanks to all of you who worried about me when I didn’t write.. You have no idea how much it means to me.

I finally made it to Iroquois Falls to visit our son, daughter-in-law and the darling Grands.

The ‘other’ mother-in-law (Lynn) and I ventured up the highway and only got lost once or twice. Both times were the fault of Missy, the GPS..

I asked Charles if any other mothers-in-law travelled together. His reply? “Probably, but they wouldn’t be talking!”

Lynn and I never stopped! What a wonderful time we had…..

Neither of us had seen their new house or the town, school, work place… did all that and missed the Tim’s restaurant…how did that happen!!

How Can Things be the Same?

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How can things be the same when they are so different? Ron and I are still together in our little house. The family came to be with us yesterday. Charles and Tabetha brought lunch. Judith and I ate our standared white chicken with baked potato. Ron rested. The grandchildren play high-spirited games around our feet. This is all familiar to us.

But now Ron rests in a hospital bed, on morphine for pain, seldom conscious. The grands look at Afi (Icelandic for Grandpa) and say..Afi sleeping. Night Afi. and go on playing and trusting and expecting their parents to keep things right.

And the adults? We cry some, reminise some, fear some……while the grands, knowing they are loved…trust in that love.

Eventually the rest of us remember that we are loved too. We know Jesus. We have right relationships with God……and we determine  to trust him…because he makes all things right–even when everything seems so wrong…

Brenda J Wood http://heartfeltdevotionals.wordpress.com

Try This On For Size!

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PCCWeb Daily PCCWeb DailyThursday, August 26, 2010

Today’s Devotional Yellow Sprinkle Prayers

1 Thessalonians 5:17 – Pray continually. (NIV)

Our four-year-old granddaughter knows what she likes, and today, it’s yellow. She boldly wears a dazzlingly bright yellow short set and chooses mustard for her sandwich. She scribbles only with buttercup-coloured crayons and grins mightily as we journey past a field of golden sunflowers.

Our special day together passes in a sunny yellow haze. Soon we will spend a few minutes together at the local coffee shop. I will have my coffee and Kaia will have her vanilla donut with sprinkles. Why am I surprised to hear her request for yellow sprinkles?

Oh, oh! The sprinkles are never yellow and Kaia is four. I mean, today of all days, she is really four. She is not fond of refused requests. Oh, oh!

“Please, Lord,” I said aloud. “Will you please give Kaia yellow sprinkles today?” And we went in, to a place no grandma wants to go — a place that could spell meltdown for both of us.

And in that never-before-yellow-sprinkle coffee shop, stood a rack of vanilla donuts… with yellow sprinkles.

“Ah,” said Miss Kaia, smiling joyfully, “God gave me yellow sprinkles.”

I slowly sipped my coffee, grateful, of course, for yellow sprinkles, but also regretting the many other times when I could have prayed and didn’t.

What would happen if we really took advantage of God’s advice and prayed without ceasing?

Prayer: Lord, help us to trust You with yellow sprinkles, those prayers that seem too insignificant to mention. Amen.

Brenda Wood