by Joanne Wiklund
Can you feel it? Don’t you love it? It’s called Sunshine, and we all need it so much. I have a spot in my living room where it shines in the three windows, to fall on my glider. I admit to propping up the feet on the ottoman, closing my eyes and gliding! Do I nap there? I may have sometimes. I hate being cold and Sunshine will warm you all the way through.
The news shows so many videos, dark film from wars everywhere. I can’t imagine living in that darkness all the time. I consider it a real blessing to slide through the seasons, planning for Spring and Summer. I get excited when I see dew worms on wet cement. If they’re still wiggling I make sure to roll them off into the grass. If they’re dried and dead, I still roll them off, a little more briskly. I can’t stand to run over them with the car.
Even dandelions don’t bother me, unless they spread like a carpet and they can, leaving no grass at all in between. Moles I can fix with baking soda or stinky, soggy wet dog hair. Moles hate the smell of dog. I had Siberians who dug them out and laid them on the back steps for Momma. They had two coats to shed every Spring so I had dog hair by the pound. I saved my clump birch tree with icky dog hair when the moles dug a tunnel under it. Ugh! I’ve been speaking of minor problems but we are blessed here. No wonder the world’s population want to come here. God has been so good to us.
Our world has changed however, and only God can choose to right the wrongs we’ve done if we accept and confess to Him. Pray, people, that He, as always hears our prayers. We are not alone in all of this. We pray for people all over the world, and try to help where we can. Let’s get ready to keep doing the difficult every day in His name.
II Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and forgive their sin and will heal their land.
John 12:1-2 “Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2. There they made a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.”