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Lights

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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!







If Only the Lonely….


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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.




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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.


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Truth, a Poem


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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



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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:




God's Writer Girl



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Breathe, in …. out


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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


Poem – I Think Mice are Rather Nice


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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.  🙂