Today was another glorious day…hot like summer is supposed to be but that just makes the sweet ice tea in the Mason jar that much sweeter. Sat on the swing perch and ate my breakfast bagel and drank my coffee and watched the cardinals and purple finches frolicking around the bird feeders. Got to get back to reading my quotes books daily so I don’t have to look through my scratch papers of quotes. Can’t read my writing most of the time. Sent my grandsons letters everyday for their week long Scout camp and I’m so thankful that I could type the letters on my iPad. No way could I write a letter and no way they could they read my scribbles.

Watched the sun sit still on the crest of the horizon this afternoon like a golf ball sitting on a golf tee. The sun gathered its rays close and turned into a perfect ball of orange-red fire, sitting still while Mother Nature picked up her watercolor brushes and stroked beautiful honey gold shades across the landscape of the horizon. As the sun blazed a trail down the horizon she took the hand of Father Sky and they invited the day’s gloaming to perform after their exit. The dusk lit the lightning bugs’ lanterns and the lightning bugs glittered in the twilight like the stars in the heavens.

Found a quote I like and I could actually read my writing on this little piece of scratch paper. “Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars,” Norman Vincent Peale. Shooting for the moon takes a lot of hard work and determination, aiming for things we think are beyond our grasp. But if we aim high and aren’t afraid to risk failure, we’ll have done our best and we’ll have taken a worthwhile and significant journey. We might not make it all the way to the moon but landing on the stars will bring us accomplishments of a road well travelled.

One of my friends had breast cancer surgery today. Please pray for her and her family for God to give them comfort and peace as she recovers. My dearest friend in Alex City called me tonight telling me one of our friends died today following a serious bout with pneumonia. Please pray for her family and her grandchildren as they grieve for her.

Life is so very, very short and we’re not promised a tomorrow. We need to live a life of kindness and love, focusing on what’s truly important to us, and be grateful for every day God blesses us with. Life is so precious.

“When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.” —Dillon Burroughs