HOWDY! For Sunday Post: Landscape, Squire Bill Widener’s quote came to mind.
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.“
A blast-from-the-past, an American scene featuring desert life and cowboys! Yippee!!
Poster for the United States Travel Bureau promoting tourism, showing two cowboys on horseback by stream near desert rock formation. Created for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, by Frank S. Nicholson, between 1936 and 1939. ~Image via Wikimedia Common.
Thank you, Jakesprinter from Time After Time, for the inspiration and helping to keep the creative light burning this week! Visit Sunday Post for more details and I best be getting along now . . . gotta go round-up some cattle y’all! ~Sunshine xoxo
To INDULGE in luxurious, clean bath water, available at any time night or day is a privilege. What may be an ordinary luxury for some, is an ordinary lack to others.
Only forty-six percent of people in Africa have safe drinking water. ~Wikipedia
A quiet moment to reflect the ordinary of the day and INDULGE the senses to a crystal clear, bubbling, cool water fountain.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. ~W. H. Auden
A simple turn of a water faucet handle allows me to indulge myself with clean water to drink, clean and prepare meals.
Alright. Today is the day for changes. Serious transformation into something known to be wise and noble, equipped with a set of knock-out pair of eyes, not to mention binocular vision and ability to stay up way past midnight–an absolute must for any serious WordPress blogger!
Now, just a minute . . .
Let me get the zipper up . . . can you help me? Oh, thanks!
Okay, ta-daaa!!
I am like an OWL in the desert, like a little OWL in a far-off desert . . . Psalm 102:6
When I think on the owl, I wonder, what can I learn from this beautiful bird who is known as a symbol for wisdom and courage. Ernest Hemingway had a clever thought on owls that I think is right for this moment of reflection:
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody OWL. ~ Ernest Hemingway ( ThinkExist.com Quotations) ~Image via Wikipedia~
Perhaps one could use the energy of the owl to bring wisdom and inspiration in learning to become an eloquent writer or simply learning to become as . . .
“A wise old OWL sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?" ~Wisdom Quote from ThinkExist.com) Image via Wikipedia
So, if you were to ask me, what animal I would like to be, my answer would be the majestic, wise old owl, of course!
What would you like to be if you were an animal?
~Hoot-hoot! Sunshine xoxo
Photo and Quote credits: Wikipedia and ThinkExist.comQuotations
Last Saturday was just another busy, busy day, finding me wanting so bad to be at home and working on a WordPress post. Have you ever had those days? Complaining and fretting on the inside when you HAVE to do things that keep you from the fun things you want to do?
I’m sure I see your head nodding up and down!
Okay, so Saturday, as I dragged myself around the work that seemed to never end, I learned something about surrendering my will to do what small task God wanted me to do.
My will number one: Saturday, I want to sleep in.
Who in the right mind wants to wake up before nine in the morning to attend a fundraiser/conference?
Not my number one will. No, sir! My will feels it deserves to sleep til way past noon because hey, did will get up everyday, Monday thru Friday at five thirty sharp after five or six hits on the snooze button? Ohh, yes! I want my sleep!!
But giving up sleep for this event was one small thing God, I believe, asked that I attend, simply because it meant something for the women who began this ministry and the women getting receiving help from the ministry. But, still fighting for my sleep, I’m torn with will number two.
My will number two: Conferences usually are boring and time-consuming. I wantto stay home.
Image via Wikipedia
Had I stayed home indulging in my self-centered world and activities, I would have missed golden opportunities helping those less fortunate than myself. Two sisters began a prison ministry by visiting incarcerated woman wanting spiritual healing and prayer. The sisters soon found the need to help many of these women find a place to live and make it back into society, but realized there wasn’t a place that existed. When there is a need, the charitable thing to do is to fill that need. Originally, the sisters found a small home, rented it, and began to help, two women at a time, into this home and got them back into the work force and into drug, alcohol or other substance abuse treatments. One of the main focus is getting these women introduced to God, establishing their relationship with Him and learning to find His plans for them.
Life lesson I’m learning: When we put aside our will and replace it with God’s will, blessings usually follow.
Today, the sisters run their chosen house, after their day job, from a three bedroom larger home, donated by a well-to-do community member and it houses three or four women at one time. Everything to run the home is purely by donations. The conference featured three of the current women living at the home, one being a young lady who lost her way hanging with wrong friends and drugs. She came, as she put it, from a good upbringing too. These women were given the task to cook the lunch meal for the conference and it was sure good. You could tell from the smiles of each lady who prepared the meal, that they felt some love, appreciation and forgiveness for their past mistakes from those of us who attended.
I found nothing boring here at this fundraiser. I did find helping to raise money for this worthy cause uplifting and singing to God . . .
My will number three:I want to learn to lay my selfish will down and learn to give my will to God.
Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow . . .
Have you had moments when your will made you lose a giving opportunity to help another or make this world a better place?
