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Lights

December 13, 2017 By Annette1 2 Comments

The Homeschool Review Crew has started a new season.  With that comes the word prompts for instagram.  Todays word is lights.

Guess what we did yesterday?

We put up the Christmas tree, so….now we have coloured lights shining off a tree in our living room.  🙂

One of these days I will do up a post show casing some of our favourite ornaments eh! 🙂

But for now:

Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree
Oh you bring back memories.

As I consider
What gift to give
As tree wrapping time

I thought about
A move we'll make
Out of our home.

I thought of 
The dastardly squirrels 
and how they annoy us so.

I thought of slingshots
and traps
Of a boy running while

GO AWAY squirrel
Those shouts still echo
And bring back smiles of memory

Our town is known for a 
Certain white beast
A nemesis of mine!
White squirrel abundant
Garden it eats!
Babies galore but

Smiles it brings
Smiles of memories
of a boy's caring heart

So this year 
when an ornament 
Considered...

Every year 
A New one he receives
This year A white squirrel he sees!





Filed Under: Faith, Poetry

If Only the Lonely….

December 8, 2017 By Annette1 11 Comments

Today, oh, if I could explain the joy in my heart with connections made today.  It’s a very good thing.  🙂

If only the Lonely

Tonight I had a treat
Two friends connected
Two .. can you believe it?

The life of a pastors wife
Ain’t always easy
Who to trust is hard to figure.

Real life friend
Known since college days
Love her dearly

On-line Friend
Learning more weekly
Love her dearly

These people
THESE PEOPLE
Keep me sane.

Knowing that trust,
Feeling the love,
God placed.

I firmly believe it
God, knowing my aloneness,
Gave me two friends online,

Friends that care,
Friends that connect,
Friends that pray.

If only the lonely,
.....
Had friends like these.

—–
This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate over at Five Minute Friday.  What is Five Minute Friday?
Well it’s a party of a group of like minded folks who gather on Friday
to do a five minute free write around a singular word.  AND THEN (and
this is the most important part) we take the time to offer up
encouragement to each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though
it’s not always easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?
You are always welcome.
——

Filed Under: Faith, Poetry Tagged With: faith, Five Minute Friday, poetry

Truth, a Poem

May 19, 2017 By Annette1 20 Comments

Truth
Truth rolls off my back
like water off a duck.
Finding places to sit in,
Places to lead others to query
Chasing away the dirt and grime
Making one be like new.
Truth
Easily discernable from a lie
Most of the time
But sometimes truth is hidden in a lie
A lie that needs light shone upon it
and suddenly.. there it is … revealed
Truth
It demonstates a man honest
It shows a child’s integrity
It displays a woman reliable
Truth
It’s part of the Godhead
Seen ultimately in his son Jesus
God declared he knew how to make us right with him
And so it was done.
Truth was spoke
Truth revealed.
A people saved.

 Truth

copyright Annette V May 2017

——–

This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN (and this is the most important part) we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.

Linking up at:


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Filed Under: Poetry, Uncategorized Tagged With: #fmfparty, faith, Five Minute Friday, Poem, poetry, Word Prompt

Breathe, in …. out

February 3, 2017 By Annette1 16 Comments

Today’s Five Minute Friday word prompt is the word Breathe.

Don’t know what Five Minute Friday is all about?   It’s all about community gathering around a single word, sharing our thoughts in a five minute free write.   Just letting that word soak into our brains and letting that single word spill out onto the screen in front of you. Then.. after linking up… taking time to do what I love doing… encouraging others who are spilling out as well.  🙂

So today… shall we breathe together?

….. Go….

Breathe
in …..out
It’s the way it works
One takes a breathe in
One releases that breathe.
In come the good
the needed
Out goes the old
The used.
So to is life you know
You breathe in what’s around you
What you read
what you see
what you focus on
and out it comes.
Question is
What comes out.
Is is a reflection of 
what you see
what you read
what you focus on?
Or is it somehow different?
Is it better?
Is it worse?
We are told in the scriptures that
what is the heart of man
Comes out on a man’s tongue.
What is on your tongue?
Does it show what you are breathing in?
Come today.
Think on what you are breathing in
Is it good?
Is it edifying?
Is it right?
Is it useful?
Think on these things.
As you,
Breathe.
…..STOP…. 
Copyright Annette @ A Net in Time, Feb 3, 2017

Filed Under: Poetry, Uncategorized Tagged With: #fmfparty, blog link, Christian living, christianity, faith, Five Minute Friday, Word Prompt

Poem – I Think Mice are Rather Nice

May 12, 2007 By Annette1 58 Comments

MICE

I think mice are rather nice;
Their tails are long, their faces small;
They haven’t any chins at all.
Their ears are pink, their teeth are white,
They run about the house at night;
They nibble things they shouldn’t touch,
and, no one seems to like them much,
but, I think mice are rather nice.

Rose Fyleman

I learned this poem as a child and it has stuck with me ever since.
Want to have it here in case I ever forgot it. 🙂

Have had a reader comment that the proper wording of this poem should be as follows. Note the absence of the word rather in the last line:

MICE
I think mice are rather nice;
Their tails are long, their faces small;
They haven’t any chins at all.
Their ears are pink, their teeth are white,
They run about the house at night;
They nibble things they shouldn’t touch,
and no one seems to like them much,
but I think mice are nice!
-Rose Fyleman

I learned the poem as I wrote it above, but I’m fine either way. 🙂

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Poetry, Uncategorized Tagged With: English, memorization, Poem

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