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Love Your Neighbour, a poem

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Love your neighbour as yourself.

Love…
action
determination
willingness 
present
future
there
more than feeling
doing
being
ready

your neighbour…
the person living with you
the person next door
.. down the street 
.. in the next town
.. in the next province
.. in the next country
.. across borders
.. across oceans

as yourself…
selfish
consuming
self-centred
total
active
internalized
deeply felt
considered

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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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Photo by Sadman Sakib on Unsplash

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Guide, remember.. fear not

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Guide

I sit here feeling battered and flummoxed.
I inadvertently opened a hot button on facebook.

Name calling.
Hard comments.
Challenges made.
Misunderstandings rampant.
I awed by the support of a friend.

I wonder..


Am I guiding anyone to know the Lord?
Are my answers thoughtful and soft?
Are they bold and straightforward? 
Am I ignoring the wasteful and answering the right?

I ponder the words of Romans 8
Devotional words where God reminds me
Of how he protects me against all comers.
He is ALMIGHTY GOD.
I am the child of the ALMIGHTY GOD.
What have I to fear?

Really,
What have I to fear?

So I think to myself
I won’t shy away
I will occasionally link to items on facebook
That just might cause comment and 
Open doors to conversations.
Conversations that maybe allow people to see the HOPE
That hope of the coming glory that all who believe long for.

I’ll try not to fear.
I’ll try to keep showing
That there is more to life 
Than accepting the world’s offerings. 
Because God offers so much more. 
And his people, we are more than conquerors
As we learn to guide those who
Do not yet know him.

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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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Original picture 

Photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash
 

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Speak, a poem

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Speak? 

Sunday it hit, 

The pain in my head.
Making me wish
Temporarily I could be dead.
Migraines aren’t fun
The sunlight it hurts
Please tell me hun
You won’t force me to church?

Pain sits and sits
Never seems to abate
But this week I have work
It mustn’t be late!

Eagerly waiting
For the pain to leave
Each day I work 
Sunglasses relieve

Anguish each day
When I awake
WHY TELL ME WHY
Won’t this pain hit the lake?

Knowing that God
Holds me close to his heart
I know I can work
I can do my part
Slowly I find, 
My voice as I type
So glad I can make
This room almost dark

 ACK!!!  I have no more letters to work with, and I’m getting tired.   Just have to say I am so glad that God gave me the ability to slowly.. oh.. so slowly.. to find the words I needed to make the five day blog hop work out as well as it did!   Sunglasses and darkness..it took four days for that migraine to leave!!!  AH.. don’t want to live with that again for another year!  But to bed I must go, I don’t want that massive headache to come back again!  

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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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Try

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Try

These words hang in my mind tonight.
“You are definitely a boy-mom”.

I ponder them.
My immediate response was to say
“I’m an easy going, don’t say no more than I have to mom”.
 

I feel like a lazy mom much of the time.
I care what my boy does but
I don’t care what he does too.

I don’t know if that makes sense.

I like him to be busy and using his brain 
(cause he’s got a good one on his shoulders).

I care more for how he treats people and 
for how he shares his knowledge.

Right now he is so focused that lad of mine.
Ants and terrariums is totally where it’s at.
There’s a Canadian Ant Man who does videos.
He is so totally hooked and now wants to be about the raising and keeping of ants
The raising and keeping of aphids to feed to those ants.

He is SO full of telling me FAR more than I want to know about ants.
It makes my heart smile.

And then I think
Perhaps I am not as lazy and hands offish as I think I am.
Perhaps, just perhaps, I do try to be a good mom to this boy child of mine.

Watching him grow and develop.
It does this weary heart of mine good.

So I think I will continue to just

TRY.

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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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Life Pleasures 2: Concert

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Concert

ALMOST every year since we’ve been married hubby and I have gone to the Home County Festival in London.  Always happens right around his birthday.   We took the lad when he was wee young and spent most of the time in the children’s area.  This year we went and the lad pokemon go’d and worked on soapstone carvings.  We hardly saw our lad this year at all.  He enjoyed it so very very much!  But honestly… so did we.  🙂

Home County is a free festival…you pay what you want when you are there if you like, some do, some don’t, but most do.     Bands play, they have workshops where they try to teach you things, and where different groups get together and have fun playing with each other.   

This is the first year I heard someone playing a washboard and it was rather neat!  🙂

This is admittedly not a great video as I used my tablet 
(the lad had my phone) but it was so much fun listening to this group
 I wanted to try to share it with you.  🙂

This year it was a wonderful surprise I got to hear one of my favourite singers!!!   Susan Aglukark did a short 45 minute concert for us!!   IT WAS SO WONDERFUL!!!!   It was WAY too short, I told hubby I’d love to hear her in concert and then he reminded me of ticket prices so well.. that’s not going to happen.  🙂  But I can buy her music and listen on-line and what not so life is good is it not?

She performed this song for us.  I made my hubby grin as I sang along and shuffled around in my chair.  🙂

 I rather despair at this point of getting my lad to enjoy SITTING and listening to music.  He likes some kinds of music well enough…but not to just sit and listen to.. he’d rather be doing stuff and have it on in the background. 

He did make a couple of neat soap stone carvings though which was rather neat to see, but no pics allowed this year.  🙁

Anyways, we heard some wonderful music and well… some that we got up and left with, but 95% of it was great!  The Bombaliers, the washboard folks, Amanda (something) and a celtic group…. and of course Susan Aglukark.  

It was a great Friday evening and Saturday.  We didn’t go on the Sunday because hubby had to preach and it was his birthday…cake and presents filled our afternoon.  🙂
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This post is part of the Crews Instagram word prompt challenge. I find them fun to turn into posts, will you join me in the challenge?

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Precious Moments Collection

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Precious Moments Collection
Precious Moments
Line the shelves.
Reminding me of 
the people I had 
In mind when I bought them
Brothers three
Sisters two
Mom 
Dad
Friends
Moments in history
Caught in the figures.
Memories.
But expenses catch up.
No more memories
Captured in figurines.
Instead
Precious Moments are captured.
In words
In pictures
Captured and
Collected.
Precious Moments.

 

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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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Life Pleasures 1: Hike

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 One of my pleasures in life is to go hiking with my family.   The older the lad gets the more he doesn’t stay with me and the more he hikes off out front with his dad.  They frequently check back with me to make sure I’m not lost or stuck as I’m not as nimble as I used to be… but it’s fun to get out and explore.

I thought you might like to see some of the walks/hikes we’ve done and some of the treasures I’ve found along the way.  🙂

I admittedly have a thing for mushrooms.  Whenever I go on a hike or walk I’m bound to find some sort of fungi to take a picture of.  One year I went for a walk and I found red and orange fungi, I was so stoked as that was a first time event.  Unfortunately…those pictures have been lost and I was so sad to discover that. But look!  I still have pictures from 2016!  🙂

 I managed to get a clear, up close and personal shot of this fungi.  Are they so interesting looking?   

Anyways…you might not be as keen on fungi as I am so moving on….

Who doesn’t love a leaf strewn path with trees all around, making you feel like you are alone in the world… just you and nature.  The sound of birds singing, the patter of small critters scurrying away, and if you are quiet enough and early enough in the morning…the odd deer moving silently through the trees.  It is SO cool!

You know, I like geese and ducks and what not.  Waterfowl are pretty cool.  But in town when you walk around and they are begging for treats it’s like.. ICK.. go away stupid birds.  But when you see those same birds in a natural setting it’s like .. wow.  

I’ve been trying to find some of the neat rock ones and stuff we’ve seen but I think they have alas… gone the way of most of my cool fungi pictures….  🙁   From the trails up north and stuff but I….. ah well.. you get the picture right?   Long walks/hikes in the middle of nowhere is a lovely lovely thing to do.  🙂 
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This post is part of the Crews Instagram word prompt challenge. I find them fun to turn into posts, don’t you?

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