Ponderings from the Porch Swing

“There are flowers for those who want to see them,” Henri Matisse. I love looking for flowers and I usually find one, even in the dead of winter. We all have so many flowers in our lives but we don’t have or take the time to see them. God has given us all special gifts,…

The morning is so beautiful. The earth is at its most glorious after a storm. The grass is greener, the yellow on the sunflower petals brighter, the sky a deep blue dotted with white and soft gray clouds, fluffy and kissed on their crowns by the sun’s hot rays. Father Sky has sketched a prize…

So pretty outside right now, early afternoon. The sky is a mixture of grey and blues. A silver rain is coming down in a steady pace but no wind so I’m perched in the swing enjoying the percussion sounds of a rain symphony. Well, the wind has blown in and so must I. I’m sitting…

Beautiful day, epitome of a sultry summer day, over flowing with the heat and humidity of a Tennessee Williams’ play. The luscious rain is beginning to pour down! Wahoo! The bamboos are doing their rain ballet. I think my lawn is in survival mode now. It looks some greener and it got two good showers…

Hot day in Alabama today! The sky is sketched blue, decorated with fluffy white clouds by Father Sky. I watered the birds and the flowers and the vegetables as sweat ran down my brow. I watched the butterflies and the honey bees enjoy drinking the water from the flowers as the morning sun dried up…

It’s amazing when a tragedy happens that the world just keeps spinning on its axis. The skies are blue this morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing. Nothing has stopped except for those whose lives have forever been transformed by the tragedy of last night. The light has gone from their lives and…

Watching the news tonight as most and thinking about how America and her citizens are struggling. America is boiling over and it’s frightening. We seem to have lost our respect for one another. We all need to get on our knees tonight and pray for America and her citizens. Pray that the Lord will guide…

I’ve been embraced by another glorious day today. A billowing breeze has kept the porch so pleasant. I’m thinking of the song Beautiful by Carole King where she sings, “You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart then people gonna…

What a glorious day it is today! I feel like I’ve been to church services this morning in a beautiful little cathedral in England. The street is deathly quiet, the sun is beaming down bright warm sunshine, the birds are singing hymns of thanksgiving. The quietness is so wondrous, not a sound except the songbirds…

“Thank you, God, for another day, for opening up my eyes and ears to see and hear the goodness you have left here for me. Amen.” I love this short prayer I found in my reading yesterday. I don’t know who composed it. How depressing it would be to live in darkness and never see…