Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Today was so pretty, got hot late afternoon. I enjoyed the porch all day, doing nothing but sitting in the swing watching the world go by in my yard, pondering on things I read or thought about. Found some beautiful tiny teeny wildflowers I‘ve never noticed before on my first morning walk with Penelope and…

Heard two sentences today that really caused me to do some deep pondering. The first one I heard on a movie — “Life’s a big stinking mess but that’s the beauty of it.” The second sentence I’m saving for another day. Okay, I agree that life can be a stinking mess. So what clarifies as…

Another wonderful Sunday the Lord has gifted us today, the overcast sky so beautiful in its layers of ashen whites and grays and purples and blues. The layering of the clouds looked like the peaks of a distant mountain range on the western prairies. I love watching the clouds color up and float away, dropping…

Late afternoon I was sitting in the swing, eating a double-decker Moon Pie and drinking a blackberry Dr. Pepper, when I happened to look at the cellophane wrapper and read that one-third of the moon pie is considered a serving. Surely not! Who would eat just a third of a Moon Pie. Didn’t intimate me,…

I’m pondering on the porch swing this afternoon, the sky, so pretty in pale blue, is covered in line clouds where Father Sky has scratched his white pastel back and forth across his sky canvas. The songbirds are singing cheerfully and the wind chimes are adding background music to the songbird’s glorious symphony. The goldfinches,…

The day is so pretty, cool, windy and blue, cloudless. The birds are everywhere in the yard, singing and eating. Kat and Penelope sat in the sun enjoying the sun’s warmth while I filled up the bird feeders. Hung up a finch sock full of thistle seeds, hoping the goldfinches will flock to it. I…

“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens,” Johannes Kepler. Read this quote today, deeper than my usual ones, been pondering on…

I have watched Father Sky change the colors in his sky sketch all day. He began with a vanilla cloud colored overcast sky this morning, adding touches of cigar smoke grey, aqua and purple, moving the clouds close together, then letting the wind push them away to leave a clear blue sky dotted with white…

Today the sky canvas is deep blue, stretching across the heavens cloudless and clear. God is smiling down through the sun’s bright rays, kissing the dandelions and the tiny wildflowers awake. Mother Nature is doing every thing in her power to bring forth the spring. It’s getting closer every day, the grass is greening, the…

I’m thinking this morning as I walk out on the porch that heaven is like a large front porch, welcoming and comfortable, a place where we meet with family as we enter heaven. We gather on our porches greeting each other just as we’ll have joyful reunions at the gates of heaven. Four generations of…