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Flags Flags Everywhere

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Everywhere I turn today.
I see flags, flags everywhere.
Flags on poles.
Flags on cars.
Flags on cakes.
Flowers of flags
Cupcake Flags.
People wearing flags.
The colours red and white.
It’s Canada Day.
Celebrate shall we!
Enjoy the flags.
Enjoy the cakes.
Remember the history.
For today of all days.
Canada is 150!

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This post is in response to a word prompt the crew does for Instagram fun.
I find it relaxing and fun to do them as random word posts for myself and you.  🙂

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Sunset

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Sunset
A trip to Pennsylvania.
Dad for a conference,
Mom and lad to go exploring.
We took a tent, some supplies, and our bikes.
We spent our days exploring.
Penn’s Cave.
Hershey’s Chocolate World.
Indian Echo Dell Caves
Gettysburg
Harrisburg Science Museum
The State Capital.
Elizabethtown.
Sore feet.
Sore backs.
Tired brains.
Simple affordable food.
and as sunset fell across the campground
Biking,
A lad and his mom.
A lad outpacing his mom.
He shouts of encouragement.
“Mom!  You can catch up to me!”
Fellow campers grinning.
The tree peepers chorusing.
The bullfrog thrumming.
“You can do it, you can do it, yes you can”.
 The Heron takes flight.
Mom stops.
These hills are hard.
A picture taken.
A boy breathing hard races to find
Where his mother stopped
to see the lake
to breath easily
And he smiles
and says
“Nice, isn’t it mom?”
and 
“I had to find where you were.”
Kind and thoughtful 
this lad of mine.
It was good to spend time with
this growing young man.
He makes my heart smile.
God has blessed me
Abundantly.
Enjoy the Sunset!
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This post is in response to a wordprompt
the homeschool review crew uses for instagram fun.
I find it relaxing and enjoyable to turn them into posts for you and me.  🙂

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Steady, A poem

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Steady

The steadfast love of the Lord never changes
His mercies never come to end
They are new every morning
New every morning
Great is thy faithfulness Oh Lord
Great is thy faithfulness.

The steadfast love of the Lord.
Steady
Sure.
Unchanging. 
Never ending.
Geared toward those who Love him.
Who trust in the saving work of his son.

It is what we are called to be.
Steadfast…just as the Lord is.
Fighting against the sin within that causes us to NOT be steadfast.
Unchanging.
Sure. 
Not selfish.
Not wanting our own way.
But seeing the bigger picture.
So standing
Firm
Steadfast.
Unchanging.
Geared toward those who love the Lord.
Geared to turning hearts toward the one,
who ALWAYS has his heart turned toward us.

So let us stand
Steadfast
Steady.

copyright June 2017, Annette V.

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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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Garden, What about the bushy one?

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Garden, The Bushy One
Come see my Love
Come see won’t you?
See…how much progress has been made?
This patch, you used to not see the spinach, 
Remember that my love?
Ah, yes, I can see it.
The weeds were knee high.
Good job hun, 
but 
Can you tell me.
What is the bushy thing in with the lettuce?
Oh shush hun
The weed grew while I was…
See hun…See that garden there?
See how you can see the tomatoes again?
Ah yes, I see hun.
So when is the bushy thing getting out of the lettuce?
Argh, 
I sigh.
I shake my head.
I don’t get annoyed.
Because he is who he is.
A perfectionist who 
Can only see the bushy thing in the lettuce.
My boy is the same.

Good thing I’ve learned from his dad eh?
Helps me show more grace to a lad.
Who…
Only sees “the bushy thing”.
This garden of a lad I grow as well.
Pleased I am when I see sin falling away.
Sorrowful I am when sometimes a lad only sees 
“the one thing” and
Doesn’t see his own growth in the Lord.
Prayer and patience.
That’s the way to get any kind
Of Garden to Grow.
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This post is in response to a word prompt the crew does for Instagram fun.
I find it relaxing and fun to do them as random word posts for myself and you.  🙂

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Expect

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Expect

Two weeks ago I was in a state of expectation.
A longing,
A hoping for,
A waiting for 
Time away

Holidays awaited
Time with my hubby
Time with my boy,
A time to visit with on-line friends.
I waited and hoped and foresaw good things.

We hiked.
We museumed.
We toured.
We listened. 
We even sang, and biked, and watched in amazement.

Caves, speakers, water, birds, 
Peepers busy peeping…how close can we sneak?
The thrum of a bullfrog 
The patter of rain and
The ACK of wetness on a sleeping bag unplanned.

The sorrow of no visits with on-line friends.
The delight of seeing a heron on the prowl.

Expect.
Expectations seen and exceeded.
Expectations hoped for and missed.

So what do you expect?  

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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.

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Springtime, a poem

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The
Homeschool Review Crew does word prompts for Instagram fun, I think
it’s great to have these words prompts for doing quick posts.  🙂   I
find them fun as sometimes it surprises me where my brain goes.  🙂   Today’s word: Springtime.  Let’s follow my thoughts along the way eh?

 Spring is here
My blue flowers are out
Spring is here
The crocuses peak out.
Bright colours splash
Across a brown landscapes
Reminding us that 
Spring has Sprung.
Hope is found
after a season of cold.
Warmth
Life
Colour
Brightness
Work to do
Gardens to plant
A season of plenty
after
A season of want
But first.
The Splash of colour
Springtime

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