Ponderings from the Porch Swing

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…

Well, who would have thunk it? My rain dance actually worked! We got a 30 minute downpour this afternoon. It got windy and I had to quickly get all the swing pillows picked up before they blew away. I threw them in Penelope’s play pen and headed inside. I sat by the window and watched…

Sat out on the porch this morning. It’s just so humid! I’ve watered my vegetables and flowers and washed out the bird baths and filled them up with fresh water and my clothes are wringing wet. My eyes are burning from the sweat dripping down my face. I feel for all the outdoor workers, I…

From my archives — Ate breakfast on the porch this morning sitting in the swing, surveying my little world. Had a soft wind chime symphony with a few cicada solos. So pretty outside, azure blue sky, lots of fluffy cotton ball clouds, bleached white on their rounded tops, light gray on their bottoms flushed with…

Beautiful day today the Lord has made. Father Sky colored his morning sky blue with fluffy white clouds. Later he picked up his pastels again and sketched purple and gray thunderstorm clouds, cooled the air down to the seventies, clapped some thunder and added a few lightning bolts to today’s sky, but only let a…